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February saw significant improvements in activity across the prime London lettings market, and annual rental growth also increased slightly after four...

A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...

Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...

Property taxes in Scotland exceeded £600m over the last year according to analysis of the latest statistics by the country’s largest...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

Propertymark has laid out its proposals to the Scottish Government ahead of its 2024-25 Budget next week. The letting agents’ trade body...

A council’s lettings service - first set up a decade ago - says it is stepping up its campaign to recruit...

A mortgage lender has conducted a survey of homeowners which has produced a string of anti-landlord and anti-overseas investor attitudes. Market Financial...

A holiday lettings agency has come out fighting on behalf of its clients. Following calls by local leaders in Cornwall and Devon...

New powers have been revealed to tackle what the Welsh Government calls the ‘problem’ of second homes.  A statement from the Senedd...

Propertymark has given advice to the new Scottish National Party leader and Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf. The trade group’s head of...

A new PropTech tool says it will help agents maximise their chances of handling the sales of properties being disposed of...

An agent claims that if Labour wins the next General Election there will be what he calls “misguided meddling” across the...

A letting agents’ trade body is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...

The Valuation Office Agency has issued a reminder that changes to eligibility rules for self-catering properties will come into effect from...

Just about every agency that has commented on yesterday’s Autumn Statement are in agreement - changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance...

With only 48 hours to go before the Autumn Statement confirms stealth tax rises and massive public spending cuts, Propertymark has...

The agents’ trade body Propertymark says the government must “get realistic” over the difficulties involved in reaching Net Zero targets when...

A leading light in the Generation Rent group is disputing the findings of a Propertymark survey of letting agents.  Agents from businesses...

There’s just a week left - including the long Jubilee celebration period - for agents to respond to a major property tax...

Demand for pied a terres from those working in offices for only three days of the week is fuelling demand for...

Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...

The Property Investor Show is back for its 20th year with 100 property sector experts and exhibitors in London this week. The...

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...

Letting agents are being urged to respond to a consultation opening today from rhe independent Office for Tax Simplification.  The OTS has published an...

There’s a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage products available for current or new landlords. The...

MPs and the wider public have been presented with a lengthy report on the growth of Airbnb and similar platforms across...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the Labour Party conference that if her party wins the next General Election she will...

The value of the Private Rented Sector in England, Wales and Scotland grew by 5.8 per cent to a jaw dropping...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Maxine Fothergill and for the past ‘almost’...

Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...

The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...

A prominent industry figure is warning Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to use property taxes to bail out the government over the costs...

Light has been shed at last on the long-running uncertainty about why some landlords choose to use lettings agents and some...

Scotland must encourage more investors into its property market as a way of supporting its economy once the Coronavirus recedes according...

Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...

There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made an uncompromising set of demands on the government, asking it to implement a...

The prime London lettings market has returned to growth after three years of falling rents, according to new five-year forecasts from...

There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...

A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation is urging tenants not to ignore a letter if they receive one from HM Revenue &...

The normally-sedate Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued an unusually stark warning to government, telling it to “stop meddling” in...

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...

A private landlord has gone on record to explain her own dilemma with a tenant - and why the government’s scrapping...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

A holiday lettings company says it’s seen a 23 per cent increase in its portfolio over the past year as owners...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...

Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...

Buy to let investors are facing a double whammy as stagnating rents and reduced tax relief are hitting profitability. A study from...

A trade body has welcomed calls by a parliamentary committee for tax incentives for the buy to let sector to improve...

A leading accountancy firm has analysed buy to let taxation policies north and south of the border and claims that from...

Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...

Some 24 per cent of landlords have considered letting out their properties on a short let Airbnb-style basis - but only...

You may be forgiven for thinking that rent takes up an ever-greater proportion of tenants’ income - but new figures out...

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

There has been limited support given from some parts of the lettings industry to a proposal offering Capital Gains Tax relief...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...

Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

A specialist buy to let broker is urging landlords to tread with caution before jumping feet first into incorporating their property...

A trade body is claiming that armed service personnel who let out their homes whilst stationed away are being hit by...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...

Landlords who rent out their property via online letting agents are in a stronger position to deal with new financial and...

The proportion of landlords who use a letting agent to help manage their property has spiked since the end of last...

Single property landlords are finally waking up to the fact they could be pushed in to a higher tax bracket following...

Steve Bolton, founder of investment consultancy Platinum Property Partners and one of two landlords who have led a campaign against restricting...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation has issued a reminder to buy to let investors that the first phase of the restriction...

The Lettings Hub is broadening its offer to agents by launching a utility management service on top of its traditional referencing...

The proportion of landlords considering commercial loans to fund purchases has doubled over the last 18 months as they try to...

An assessment undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows property taxes accounted for 12.7 per cent of the...

The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...

Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...

Some of the property professionals behind the campaign against the changes to buy to let landlords’ taxation have compiled a comprehensive...

The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...

A survey of 18 mortgage lenders reports that the buy to let sector has seen a rise in mortgage deals of...

Details of the Bank of England’s statement outlining tougher rules on mortgage lending to buy to let investors have been shown...

As the Conservatives meet at their annual conference and Chancellor Phillip Hammond considers next month’s Autumn Statement, an industry body has...

The government is being warned that without changes to the Finance Bill currently going through parliament it will effectively be forcing rent...

Another £50,000 has already been raised through crowd-funding to help meet the costs of mounting a legal challenge to George Osborne’s...

The two landlords spearheading a campaign to challenge the change to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief have launched another...

The two landlords behind the bid to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let mortgage interest relief tax...

HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has ticked off the government for not updating its Private Landlords’ Survey for some six years...

Agents acting for landlords replacing furniture and other domestic items in homes to let should be given detailed guidance from the...

Government policies aimed at curbing the buy to let market are directly leading to more pressure on the lettings sector, according...

The two landlords behind the possible legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are appealling for “experts, mentors...

A legal opinion is expected in the next few days as the legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax...

A former president of the Association of Taxation Technicians has made a strong defence of buy to let investors who, she...

The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...