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05 October 2020
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New long-term targets for improving energy efficiency across the private rental sector simply are not realistic, the government has been warned. The...
02 October 2020
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Propertymark is the latest industry body to warn the government against Capital Gains Tax changes that may disincentivise landlords. A joint statement...
20 July 2020
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There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The research department of Countrywide’s Hamptons International brand says the stamp duty holiday introduced yesterday on homes selling for £500,000 or...
09 July 2020
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The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...
28 May 2020
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The proportion of homes bought last month by buy to let investors plummeted to a record low of just eight per...
09 April 2020
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It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...
06 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A survey of the buy to let market conducted by a bank before the latest acceleration in the Coronavirus outbreak suggests...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Optimism amongst investors in the private rental sector is on the rise, despite the various tax and regulation obstacles facing the...
27 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The government is driving landlords into the short let sector according to a trade body. The Residential Landlords Association, responding to recent...
24 February 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s a new warning today for buy to let investors who will be hit by tax changes coming into effect on...
20 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Almost three quarters of Belvoir’s lettings franchisees anticipate rent increases this year. In a survey of the franchise firm’s offices across the...
18 February 2020
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The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...
13 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank has released its latest rental market summary for London, and it paints a mixed picture. Firstly the number of properties...
04 February 2020
From: Breaking News

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading lettings sector trade body has outlined key pieces of legislation that will hit the private rental sector in 2020. The...
02 January 2020
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There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...
02 January 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...
20 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Another survey of private landlords show a majority feeling less confident about the market than they were three months ago. Last week...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News

One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Landlords must look at their finances as a range of tax changes continue to 'hit home', according to Apropos. The property management...
07 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A fifth of buy-to-let landlords claim they have reduced the number of properties in their portfolios due to a range of...
02 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Franchise agency group Winkworth claims the lettings fee ban impact has been less severe on its agents than on other companies,...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The first ‘state of the industry’ report on the lettings agency sector since the introduction of the fees ban suggests individual...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...
13 August 2019
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New research shows more than half of landlords plan to use limited companies to buy properties in the year ahead. The study...
12 August 2019
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The supply of lettings property has begun to increase in higher price brackets in prime central London, leading rents to fall...
25 July 2019
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Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Some 12 per cent of homes to let are operated by a ‘company landlord’ according to an analysis by Countrywide high-end...
22 July 2019
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A rise in the number of professional landlords means letting agents need to ensure their service meets the expectations of experienced...
04 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The number of buy to let products for first time landlords has risen to an all-time high. Data from independent mortgage market...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Despite criticism from some within the industry about the effects of short lets, the high-end agency Knight Frank has spoken of...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...
16 May 2019
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A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...
10 May 2019
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30 April 2019
From: 60 Second Interview

Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...
01 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Changes to Capital Gains Tax which reach their full impact in the next 12 months could fuel property changing hands between...
28 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Data from Knight Frank shows that annual rental values actually grew in parts of prime outer London last month for the...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes. Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Research by franchise lettings agency company Belvoir suggests that landlords are continuing to exit the property market, although not at the...
19 December 2018
From: Breaking News

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of...
20 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The...
13 November 2018
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Rental sector experts are expressing growing fears that the relatively low-key Budget announcements made on Monday could herald something more dramatic...
31 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...
24 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says the annual rental value growth has returned to prime central London due to declining supply levels - the...
04 October 2018
From: Breaking News

New research has attempted to quantify the number and scale of rent rises that are likely to take place as landlords...
04 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Three London lettings sub-markets performed relatively weakly according to data just released by Knight Frank. Wimbledon’s rental values fell 1.5 per cent...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...
14 September 2018
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A survey has revealed that 44% of landlords are looking to sell properties as a challenging market takes its toll. Octopus Choice,...
06 September 2018
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A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...
31 August 2018
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The proportion of landlords of British buy to let properties who are themselves based overseas has fallen to a record low...
13 August 2018
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Data from Knight Frank’s lettings division suggests that rents in the troubled Prime Central London area have risen for the second...
01 August 2018
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Chestertons has announced record lettings results for the first half of 2018, claiming growth in market share and increased productivity. The agency...
31 July 2018
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One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...
09 July 2018
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A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...
09 July 2018
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The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says there is now a record number of mortgage deals for those entering the buy...
04 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the lettings sector will be to blame for higher rent...
25 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...
07 June 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...
04 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A trade body is claiming that armed service personnel who let out their homes whilst stationed away are being hit by...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...
29 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy-to-let properties and the phasing out of buy-to-let mortgage...
25 May 2018
From: Breaking News

An online petition which calls on the government to reintroduce full buy-to-let mortgage interest tax relief and abolish the 3% stamp...
21 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The latest major piece of research into the private rental sector is forecasting a huge surge in demand - meaning there...
17 May 2018
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There’s been a significant rise in the number of fixed-rate buy to let mortgages available to limited companies, says independent mortgage...
24 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News

High end agency Strutt & Parker is warning that older properties in prime central London are getting harder to let, with...
12 February 2018
From: Breaking News

No fewer than 44 per cent of landlords plan to expand their portfolios before July 2018 despite tax obstacles, according to...
09 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...
08 February 2018
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A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place. The team behind the site describe...
08 February 2018
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Analysis of government figures by the Nationwide suggest that the buy to let sector is still growing despite tax changes and...
05 February 2018
From: Breaking News

The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Well over half of those investors who recently secured buy to let mortgages risk facing losses when mortgage interest tax changes...
26 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets. The claim comes...
24 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...
23 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Specialist buy to let lender Accord Mortgages says seven per cent of its business in 2017 came from first time landlords...
10 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The rental market in Prime Central London has shown signs of recovery at the end of 2017, according to a new...
12 December 2017
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing a consolidation of agencies ahead of the ban on agents’ fees...
05 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A leading accounting and advisory service says key tax changes that could damage the buy to let sector are still not...
26 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...
15 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A survey for online letting agency Upad claims that 66 per cent of landlords are not going to change their property...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A third of tenants can't imagine ever taking their first step on the property ladder and owning their own home. This is...
07 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A study by an online letting agent suggests that client demand and void periods are two of landlords' biggest concerns, and...
04 September 2017
From: Breaking News

More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets. The move is particularly acute in...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Buy to let mortgage competition is showing no signs of stopping, thus giving one of the few pieces of good news...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News
10 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Paragon Mortgages says its most recent survey of buy to let investors makes it clear that the vast majority want the...
07 July 2017
From: Breaking News

A head of a company providing hi-tech products to letting agents says technology is the answer to current rental industry challenges,...
06 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Skipton International has launched a guide to help expat buy to let investors trying to make sense of the UK government’s...
30 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The latest Kent Reliance Buy to Let Britain report - seen as a snapshot of the state of health of the...
23 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The nation's landlords are adapting to ongoing restrictions to tax relief on buy-to-let mortgage interest, according to Mortgages for Business. Upon releasing...
09 June 2017
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A new report says buy to let will continue to provide good investment opportunities but requires an increasingly professional approach. The report,...
02 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The proportion of landlords who use a letting agent to help manage their property has spiked since the end of last...
01 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...
12 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A well known specialist mortgage lender for the buy to let sector, Paragon, has refreshed its offering in the light of...
04 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting agents have reporting an average of four landlords per branch selling up and quitting the buy to let sector in...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The ban on letting agents in England imposing fees on tenants is unlikely to be implemented before late next year according...
19 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Private landlords’ net income has risen 39 per cent in the last five years, jumping from £10.8 billion to £15 billion...
13 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Almost 20 per cent of the landlords using an online letting agency are apparently unaware of the mortgage interest tax relief...
11 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Steve Bolton, founder of investment consultancy Platinum Property Partners and one of two landlords who have led a campaign against restricting...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Specialist buy to let lender Paragon Mortgages has given an upbeat forecast for the private rental sector, despite the arrival of...
04 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords’ Association is calling on letting agents in the organisation to contribute to their latest research. “As part of our...
29 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...
27 March 2017
From: Breaking News

New lettings data from Agency Express supports the belief that the rental market may be slowing down across much of the...
20 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A trade body claims that vulnerable tenants are finding it harder to access rented housing because of tax changes being introduced...
10 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The campaign against the phased reduction in landlords' mortgage interest tax relief is continuing with the opening of a new website,...
09 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is writing to the Office for Budget Responsibility asking it to provide clarification on controversial tax...
07 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents rose by a year-on-year average of 0.8 per cent at the end of last month - while inflation in the...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Belvoir says new figures from across its network of agents shows that the government is wrong to claim that renting is...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...
01 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The proportion of landlords considering commercial loans to fund purchases has doubled over the last 18 months as they try to...
27 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association has listed key MPs in marginal constituencies who should be lobbied ahead of the March 8 Budget...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Professional independent inventories can save money for landlords at a time when tax changes threaten to make private letting for expensive...
22 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Tenants face potential rent increases of between 20 and 30 per cent as a result of tax rises hitting landlords, says...
17 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A trade group has commissioned a firm of economists to look at how the government’s mortgage interest tax relief change -...
14 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Saturday is traditionally the day many MPs hold their constituency surgeries, listening to grievances and opinions from their electors. Conservative member of...
10 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The head of MartinCo, the country’s largest franchise agency group, says the government’s buy to let tax changes and lettings fee...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The government should think again about punitive tax changes to the private rented sector after receiving greater-than-expected revenue from the three...
02 February 2017
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Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...
23 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Gross buy to let lending increased in November to the highest monthly level since the stamp duty surcharge was introduced in...
18 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Rent increases across the UK are now running at an average that is less than half the level of a year...
11 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Landlord confidence has returned despite government tax changes to the private rental sector - although research for the survey that produced...
02 December 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords’ Association says it stands by a claim that one in four landlords may sell up, and it refutes...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...
18 November 2016
From: Breaking News

An online lettings agency says tenants’ arrears are likely to be the biggest issue facing the rental sector next year unless...
16 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A survey of 1,000 buy to let investors by the Residential Landlords’ Association shows that around a quarter are saying they...
15 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Another lettings agency has decided to stage a seminar for landlords to explain what Brexit and recent tax changes mean for the...
15 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed that it is to meet with Treasury officials ahead of next month’s Autumn Statement -...
27 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A well-known mortgage broker is quoted as saying that buy to let organisations are complaining too much over tax changes for...
24 October 2016
From: Breaking News

In its latest bid to push Chancellor Phillip Hammond to back down on buy to let tax changes, the Residential Landlords...
24 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The campaign group Generation Rent says most buy to let properties are not mortgaged and many landlords are unaffected by current...
14 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders. Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...
13 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A campaign group is urging letting agents to join with landlords in lobbying MP over the government’s change to buy to...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The chairman of the Residential Landlords’ Association has restated how he sees the private rental sector could help solve the country’s...
08 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The Law Society has accused the government of avoiding proper consultation and scrutiny in the way it has introduced new buy to let proposals. They...
30 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The date for the court hearing to decide whether there should be a judicial review of the buy to let tax...
26 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Belvoir is calling on the government to reverse its punitive tax policies against buy to let and introduce incentives to make...
18 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the border - has spoken...
16 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has agreed to meet campaigners opposed to the clampdown on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief. The measure -...
12 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...
19 July 2016
From: Breaking News

The new Chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been ‘outed’ as a former buy to let landlord - raising...
18 July 2016
From: Breaking News

New Chancellor Phillip Hammond has been urged by an industry trade group to reset the government’s approach to taxing the buy...
15 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...
05 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Deutsche Bank has issued a dire warning about the buy to let market in the UK, along with a broadside warning...
20 June 2016
From: Breaking News

The exemption of residential property from the new Capital Gains Tax cuts tops the list of concerns expressed by professional landlords...
14 June 2016
From: Breaking News

On the day of the campaign rally to galvanise support for a bid to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s...
09 June 2016
From: Breaking News

There has been a new development in a long-running spat between a website and the BBC over the corporation’s news coverage...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Some 27 per cent of landlords consider an online letting agency to be a more attractive option for managing property than...
06 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Landlords are looking to house tenants less likely to miss rental payments in order to minimise the impact of a number...
27 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A buy to let index of returns compiled by a financial firm shows the greatest returns for investors are now to...
13 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...
21 April 2016
From: Breaking News

The two landlords hoping to secure a judicial review of the legislation restricting mortgage interest tax relief on buy to let...
20 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Almost all landlords are considering increasing rents to pay for the higher taxes they now face. According to a survey by the...
15 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Demand for buy to let mortgages in the coming months is expected to fall "significantly" according to a Bank of England...
14 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Action is needed to tackle the scandal of ‘buy to leave’ investors who are denying Londoners the homes they need, according...
11 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Respected credit ratings agency Fitch says buy to let will thrive for the next 12 to 24 months but the effects...
08 April 2016
From: Breaking News

The people behind the campaign to seek a judicial review of the buy to let tax changes proposed by Chancellor George...
06 April 2016
From: Breaking News

HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...
24 March 2016
From: Breaking News

The new stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties coming into effect next Friday will increase rent costs for tenants...
24 March 2016
From: Breaking News

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has ticked off the government for not updating its Private Landlords’ Survey for some six years...
24 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Later today chancellor George Osborne will make his latest budget speech. It has been speculated that the announcement could include new measures...
16 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Almost a third of landlords surveyed by property crowdfunding platform Property Partner have little or no awareness of the raft of...
16 March 2016
From: Breaking News

The changes introduced to the tax and stamp duty levied on buy to let income and property appears not to have...
04 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Who are you? Jen Paice What does it say on your business card? Chief executive of SafeDeposits Scotland What does SafeDeposits Scotland do? We are...
24 February 2016
From: 60 Second Interview

Four in 10 landlords are either seriously considering forming a limited company or will be looking into the option in the...
22 February 2016
From: Breaking News

One of the country‘s leading rental sector analysts is warning that tax changes for landlords’ mortgage interest relief, and the imminent...
10 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The two landlords mounting a legal challenge to the mortgage interest tax changes proposed by Chancellor George Osborne have released a...
09 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The franchise letting agency chain Belvoir is urging its landlord clients to offer fiancial support to the national campaign to fight...
08 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The three per cent stamp duty surcharge proposed for purchases of buy to let and holiday homes risks being seen as...
01 February 2016
From: Breaking News

An online petition aiming to get 100,000 signatures expressing opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes looks certain...
21 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords’ Association is taking legal advice on whether George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are a breach of...
20 January 2016
From: Breaking News

People coming to work in Scotland from overseas are making up an increasing proportion of private sector tenants according to a...
19 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A specialist buy to let lender says some mainstream mortgage companies are over-charging borrowers who have incorporated in order to minimise...
19 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A financial analyst says current buy to let mortgage constraints - with a strong possibility of more later this year - may...
18 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Chancellor George Osborne’s buy to let tax proposals are set to hit domestic buyers far more than international investors, according to...
12 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The two landlords behind the possible legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are appealling for “experts, mentors...
11 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Today is the last chance for Letting Agent Today readers to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...
07 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...
06 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A legal opinion is expected in the next few days as the legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax...
06 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Letting Agent Today readers are being given the rare opportunity to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...
05 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Buy To Let mortgage lending grew 17 per cent in 2015 but faces a potential slump after April, according to property...
05 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Chancellor George Osborne has “effectively declared war on individual landlords” according to the Residential Landlords’ Association - but don’t expect a...
05 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The latest £50,000 target to fund a legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords...
04 January 2016
From: Breaking News

No fewer than 14 different tax changes targeted mostly at the buy to let sector will damage the market in 2016...
31 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Almost half of landlords are set to increase their rents in 2016 in a bid to counteract tax changes and higher...
31 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The man behind the Platinum Property Partners company are mounting a legal challenge to this year’s buy to let tax changes...
30 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Buy to let tax relief is still set to total around £15 billion annually even after changes to tax relief are introduced,...
21 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Treasury proposals to hand greater powers to the Bank of England to make access to buy to let lending harder risks...
21 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Hunters Estate Agents have taken the unusual step for a public company of criticising the government - in this case over...
18 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is warning of a possible slump for the buy to let market in the next two...
18 December 2015
From: Breaking News

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...
15 December 2015
From: Breaking News

A former president of the Association of Taxation Technicians has made a strong defence of buy to let investors who, she...
09 December 2015
From: Breaking News

A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...
04 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Existing and would-be landlords are set to go on a buy to let buying spree, snapping up homes before the three...
27 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Research shows that landlords are scaling-back repairs over the winter in order to optimise finances when a new wear and tear tax...
20 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Franchise letting agency giant Winkworth is warning that London’s tenants face higher rents as some landlords sell investment properties in the...
13 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A prominent buying agent active in prime central London says the capital’s high end buy to let market will become less...
06 November 2015
From: Breaking News

The online petition opposing the proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords has now reached 35,000 signatures - but is...
30 October 2015
From: Breaking News

While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...
26 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Measures which discourage investment in the private rented sector can only push up rents and harm tenants more than landlords, a...
20 October 2015
From: Breaking News

“Unthought-through”, “unfair and unreasonable” and leading to “extreme confusion” - those are the thoughts of Britain’s leading professional accounting body on...
19 October 2015
From: Breaking News

The chairman of Choices letting agency says the government is wrong to say its proposed tax changes will create a level...
14 October 2015
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The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...
12 October 2015
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A columnist on FT Adviser - an online service for financial advisers and clients - says buy to let investors have...
09 October 2015
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A mortgage chief has spelled out what many in the rental sector already know - that the new laws, rules and...
07 October 2015
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The government’s response to the online petition against proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is “unfair, incoherent and missing...
17 September 2015
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The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...
16 September 2015
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The chief executive of Zoopla has thrown his weight behind opposition to the government’s proposed restrictions on buy to let tax...
15 September 2015
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The country’s biggest buy to let landlord is to raise rents by up to 33 per cent, and puts the blame...
14 September 2015
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Opponents of the government’s attempt to end tax breaks for the buy to let sector now have a new opportunity to...
10 September 2015
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If supporters of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget restrictions on tax breaks for buy to let landlords thought opposition would die off...
07 September 2015
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The petition against the proposed tax changes outlined by Chancellor George Osborne in last month’s Budget has now achieved 20,000 signatures. This...
28 August 2015
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The founders of the website saynotogeorge.co.uk have stepped forward to explain why they have founded the campaign. Two Peterborough-based property developers are...
17 August 2015
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The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...
10 August 2015
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An online petition demanding the reversal of the revisions to buy to let landlords' tax breaks announced in the Budget last...
06 August 2015
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A survey suggests that renters are worried that landlords who have to pay more tax as a result of changes in...
05 August 2015
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A letting agent is urging landlords to try to circumnavigate tax changes aimed at the buy to let sector by incorporating...
27 July 2015
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HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...
21 July 2015
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The specialist buy to let mortgage sector is set to be an unexpected victim of the buy to let tax changes...
16 July 2015
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One of Britain’s senior letting agents says the people likely to be hit hardest by changes of the buy to let...
13 July 2015
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This week the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the first Conservative Budget for almost 20 years. While Mr Osborne claimed that it marked...