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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...

Demand for rental properties with gardens or other outdoor space has soared in terms of portal listings - perhaps no surprise...

A PropTech firm has issued a dramatic offer to letting agents to pay the company only when they themselves get paid...

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...

It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...

Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times.  If you have any appropriate advice you...

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...

All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...

Despite the challenges being thrown up to the lettings sector by Coronavirus, this is a reminder that new MEES regulations on...

The landlords’ newly-merged trade body has renewed its call for the government to do more to help the private rental sector...

The departure of almost all students from UK universities and colleges back to their parental homes for possibly several months has...

A lender is now offering what it calls ‘instant decisions-in-principle’ for buy to let purchasers still buying property at the moment. Landbay...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...

New research suggests the damage to the private rental sector in terms of non-payment of rent could be a remarkable £15...

The average rent for a newly let property rose 3.3 per cent in the year to the end of February -...

Hello - here we are with Friday’s help and advice.  A reminder, if you need it, that we want to share your...

The government has announced a complete ban on evictions in the private and social sectors for any tenant affected by the...

A survey of the buy to let market conducted by a bank before the latest acceleration in the Coronavirus outbreak suggests...

HM Revenue & Customs has issued a new warning to buy to let and Holliday home owners about a major change...

The Budget has failed tenants by doing nothing to increase the supply of private rental property according to two lettings sector...

A shocking case of a buy to let HMO that did not even have a working smoke detector has led to...

A lettings agent has completed a £2.6million property acquisition plan in one city on behalf of investors, and will go on...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of letting out poor quality living accommodation that was said to pose...

The Guild of Property Professionals is reminding the rental sector that owners of properties to let have only until April 1...

The West Midlands Police force says it’s secured what it calls a “landmark court order” against a rogue landlord who turned...

Growing demand and a shrinking supply of rental properties in prime central London has led to a 50 per cent surge...

The clampdown on referral fees, until now concentrated on the sales sector, will extend to letting agents too. James Munro, head of...

The government has rejected a council’s bid to extend its licensing scheme for privately rented housing. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...

A typical buy to let property pays over £600 in fees a year according to a new study released today. Insurance company...

Optimism amongst investors in the private rental sector is on the rise, despite the various tax and regulation obstacles facing the...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

London agency Draker Lettings is expanding its patch - and offering landlords a free service for six months. Draker, which is 10...

Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...

There’s a new warning today for buy to let investors who will be hit by tax changes coming into effect on...

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...

Nearly four out of 10 landlords believe that tenant demand will rise this year, according to a study by high-profile buy...

A council in a leafy area of south east England has issued an emergency prohibition order to a buy to let...

It’s been revealed that a clampdown on the buy to let sector by HM Revenue and Customs has produced millions of...

Cynics who rejected claims that landlords would quit the buy to let sector because of increasing bureaucracy and higher taxes may...

One of the country’s leading buying agencies says buy to let is changing in prime central London, as corporate structures replace...

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

One of Ed Sheeran’s first massive hits was Lego House. And now, not many years later, it’s been revealed that he’s...

An analysis of HMRC data reveals that the number of small buy-to-let landlords has dropped for the first time in five...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

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

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

More tenants save to go on holiday than to put a deposit down on a home to own according to buy...

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

A mortgage firm claims some 22 per cent of existing lettings sector investors plan to buy at least another one lettings...

It’s been revealed that Upad, the lettings agency which closed at short notice in October last year, had three prospective buyers...

An accountancy trade body is warning of another possible tax hike to hit the lettings industry. The Association of Accounting Technicians is...

A council is lobbying the government to ask for landlords using Airbnb and other short let platforms to be charged business...

A new survey suggests there may be an exodus of investors out of buy to let - some 27 per cent...

A leading agency in a part of the UK where local government wants to clamp down on the spread of Airbnb...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

A leading property industry figure says Airbnb is attempting to persuade traditional buy to let landlords into going down the short-let...

Two major buy to let lenders have slashed their rates in a bid to win business. One of the highest profile lenders,...

Some 26 per cent of buy to let investors plan to sell one or more of their properties in 2020 according...

A legal firm is warning agents and landlords that they have less than three months to prepare for the latest MEES...

There’s been an upbeat prediction on the lettings market given by leading market commentator Lucian Cook, head of residential research at...

Countrywide has calculated that with many landlords exiting the buy to let market, the number of homes available to rent has...

A rogue landlord has been fined £1,384 for failing to get a council licence for two buy to let properties. The case...

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

Mortgage costs in the buy to let market have continued to fall over the last three months - a trend seen across...

One of the highest profile buy to let mortgage lenders predicts that 2020 will see increasing numbers of investors going into...

Richard Donnell, research director at Zoopla, is warning the government that future reform of the private rental sector must not jeopardise...

Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...

Newton Fallowell, part of the Belvoir Group, has snapped up the Lovelle franchised agency group adding a further 19 offices to...

A prominent buy to let mortgage chief says lenders should be able to access the rogue landlord database launched last year. John...

Owners of buy to let properties across the UK could be entitled to compensation due to onerous ground rent charges according...

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

The owner of two properties has been fined £35,000 for breaches of the selective licensiing regime in his local area.  At a...

The Black Brick agency, which operates with high net worth clients, is forecasting that 2020 will see the arrival of a...

A short lets firm that describes itself as an “Airbnb management service” is launching an advertising campaign to woo landlords away...

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...

A new PropTech app-based service claiming to reduce paperwork in property management is rolling out in London and the south east. Herddle...

Agency Express, the board company that monitors the lettings market through demand for its To Let and Let By boards, warns...

Two specific elements of Labour’s tax proposals, outlined in its manifesto, could “drive a nail into the coffin of buy to...

Another survey of private landlords show a majority feeling less confident about the market than they were three months ago. Last week...

An inventories supplier is advising that the growing number of sub-letting scams can be reduced by regular property visits by agents...

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

Labour has dropped its controversial policy under which private tenants would have been able to buy their homes at a discount. Press...

New figures just released by the government emphasise the significance of creating a specialist housing court says one of the lettings...

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...

Almost two thirds of landlords say their next buy to let purchase will be through a limited company, not by themselves...

A lettings agency has voluntarily decided to scrap To Let boards in densely populated areas, because they are unsightly and in...

Knight Frank says the supply of new lettings properties in prime central London is likely to slow - and as a...

Labour’s controversial proposal to oblige landlords to sell their buy to let properties to tenants who wished to purchase them, unveiled...

An insurance firm has broken down the causes of major problems for buy to let landlords and tenants - and, perhaps...

One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

Many buy to let investors are still badly bruised by the government’s wave of fiscal and regulatory assaults on the private...

The likely general election is an opportunity for the government to make the lettings sector more appealing for would-be landlords, says...

A solicitor has urged the government not to reform or scrap Section 21 eviction powers simply on the basis of protests...

A landlord has been found guilty of failing to license an HMO - and has ended up with a bill of...

A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...

New research suggests that the recent fall in the cost of fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages may be coming to a halt. Online...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

Giant glow-in-the-dark swear words, a sex toy and a pet python are among some of the items that students left in...

A PropTech platform that earlier this year was reported to be valued at £2.8m is making an unusual offer to letting...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has submitted its response to the government's consultation on scrapping Section 21 evictions, which closes tomorrow...

Agent and co-founder of new end of tenancy PropTech solution The Depositary, Kristjan Byfield, has spoken to Letting Agent Today about...

Landlords have urged the authorities not to introduce rent controls in Manchester as they would 'choke off' supply of housing in...

An independent letting agency has reported its success in helping two large Build to Rent (BTR) developments to successfully let properties...

A PropTech platform devised by Build To Let specialist Grainger is to be used in a bid to differentiate the company from...

A crackdown on letting agency websites by a Trading Standards team has found the significant majority of them to be breaking...

An agency that specialises in letting and managing properties in one of the country’s investment hotspots is expanding into a new...

High end agency JLL says it’s seen a consistent rise in London owners becoming landlords, with a 15.3 per cent increase...

The quality of accommodation in the private rental sector has drastically improved in the past decade according to a survey by...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

A leading PropTech chief says there is nothing inherently wrong with private tenants being given the right to buy their property,...

New research indicates that the majority of property investors in the UK have their plans on pause for the next six...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...

A landlord who failed to provide information regarding a buy to let property has been fined £2,080.  Tenants contacted Colchester council in...

Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...

A PropTech firm says it has calculated the true cost of being a buy to let investor.  Howsy says the average landlord...

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

Franchise agency group Winkworth claims the lettings fee ban impact has been less severe on its agents than on other companies,...

An influential think tank says Capital Gains Tax on buy to let properties and second homes should be levied at the...

Data published by specialist lender Precise Mortgages suggests that over a fifth of landlords are planning to expand their portfolio with...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has taken legal advice on what can be charged to tenants for so-called ‘contractual damages’. ARLA...

More details have emerged about Labour’s controversial proposal to allow private rental tenants that right to buy their landlord’s property, at...

There is increasing evidence of the so-called unintended consequences of the tenant fee ban according to a major regional lettings agency. Linley &...

As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...

Enfield wants to be the latest London council to introduce large-scale additional and selective licensing schemes which would affect most private rented...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents appears to have joined the chorus of criticism against Labour’s controversial right to buy policy...

There’s been a fierce outcry from Conservative MPs and the lettings industry in response to Labour’s threat to give private rental...

Birmingham council has issued its first civil penalty against a House in Multiple Occupation landlord - and it says that move...

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...

Labour has this morning pledged to introduce a shock new policy if it wins the next general election - giving private...

Some of the private rental sector’s most experienced and respected experts believe it’s almost inevitable that a housing market crash is...

With the country in febrile election mode, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Association of Residential Letting Agents has got in on...

Police in South Shields have called for the sharing of information about tenants in HMOs - and a council is considering...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

One of the country’s leading property management experts says buy to let is here to stay - but only if individual...

Universal Credit is causing tenants to fall behind with their rent according to lettings sector trade body the Residential Landlords Association. It...

Activity in the lettings market has picked up over the summer after a surprising lull in the spring, according to the...

A leading industry figure is calling on agents to have a Plan B ready if their bank closes undesignated client accounts.  This...

A new rental option for landlords could see them receiving an upfront annual lump sum of over £10,000. The Advanced Rent Option...

Anyone underestimating the size of the UK’s growing private rental sector ought to think again - new research shows its value...

The Labour Party appears to be entering the arena of organising private rental sector tenants who have grievances. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn...

Research by London agency Benham and Reeves says the cumulative cost of a landlord suffering a bad tenant and then evicting...

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

Private tenants are being disadvantaged because of the government’s focus on boosting homeownership. According to the latest figures from the Royal Institution...

New research shows more than half of landlords plan to use limited companies to buy properties in the year ahead.  The study...

It took an average of just 20 days to let a home between January and July this year according to a...

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

A man who claimed he needed a council house but was actually a landlord has been ordered to pay back more...

The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...

Lettings experts are being invited to the unveiling of a service described by its creators as “a revolutionary rental product.” It is...

A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...

A London lettings agency is launching a service to enable landlords to invest in mainstream buy to let or Airbnb-style short...

A council tenant has been fined £100,000 and evicted because he let out his flat via Airbnb.  The Times reports that Toby...

An analysis of rental properties in Scotland to discover the most numerous overseas landlords has discovered, perhaps surprisingly, that they come...

In what some see as a sign of the growing importance of the lettings sector over sales, Rightmove has acquired tenant...

The latest data from the Agency Express Property Activity Index, looking at the market’s performance in June, has revealed year on...

Manchester is becoming a buy to let investment hotspot according to the boss of a leading property management firm.  David Alexander of...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

A property education business says it’s targeting a major expansion with the launch of online additions to its nationwide courses in...

A buy to let investor has been fined almost £5,000 after admitting overcrowding.  Matteo Mariano, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty at...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about an advertisement which claimed a flat was just a one...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it fears the government needs to do more to prevent the possibility of banned...

Some 12 per cent of homes to let are operated by a ‘company landlord’ according to an analysis by Countrywide high-end...

Another Martin & Co franchisee has acquired a nearby independent agency. The franchise firm’s Falmouth branch, run since 2013 by Felicia and...

Buy to let investors in the UK are spending nearly £4.7 billion a year on their rental properties, an average of...

Letting agents need to adapt to changing landlord and tenant habits The way letting agents, landlords and tenants communicate has changed significantly...

A campaign by HM Revenue & Customs to encourage buy to let investors to ‘fess up’ to their unpaid tax has...

Portsmouth council is the latest local authority to offer to rent properties from private landlords to let out to the homeless.  The...

A lettings agency is believed to be the first to offer landlords a year's rent in advance in one lump sum...

A new white-labelled outsourced lettings management service is launching today, claiming to undercut all rivals. F%ur - a brand from 4percentproperty -...

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

There’s been an “unprecedented” across-the-board fall in fixed rate buy to let mortgage rates according to an online investment platform.   Property Master...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

A senior London lettings agent has accused the government of “going to war” on buy to let investors. The director of Benham...

The number of buy to let products for first time landlords has risen to an all-time high. Data from independent mortgage market...

Second home owners, landlords and property investors are being urged to beware a “dramatic change” to the current capital gains tax...

A new survey by a specialist property sector lender reveals that 19 per cent of landlords are looking to sell in...

A new survey by one of the sector’s most respected lenders, Paragon, suggests large scale landlords are now a bigger force...

Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...

A landlord who illegally converted a London home into two flats without planning permission has been given a prison sentence after...

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

Deposit alternative service flatfair has partnered with Barbon Insurance Group to co-market the two organisations’ products. “We’re thrilled to partner with the...

A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...

Landlords have been urged to seek advice about potential stamp duty rebates on ‘uninhabitable’ second properties after a landmark tribunal case. A...

High profile agency Haart has issued a warning to landlords on what it sees as the three key risks to successful letting...

A leading buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...

A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...

The 24 year old head of an online lettings platform called Bunk says it’s up to letting agents to show they...

We may be all-too-familiar with the challenges facing letting agents and landlords in the private rental sector but there is at...

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

A leading lettings expert insists that greater regulation in the private rental sector can work for the benefit of landlords and...

Airbnb has issued a statement distancing itself from controversial advertisements from a short lets management service. Hostmaker - which describes itself as...

A specialist broker says the costs of most fixed rate buy to let mortgages are beginning to rise.  Property Master warned last...

A trade body has hit out at government policy following a think tank’s claims that young people are less mobile because of...

A lettings agent and investment adviser says there is a positive interpretation of the fees ban introduced this month in England. Abi...

A prominent consumer group claims that one in 10 tenants currently renting say they have at some point been evicted “for...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests the typical buy to let investor will be lucky to generate annual...

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...

Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...

Agents have reacted angrily to the way in which the government released a new set of rental documents updated to include...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says the feared sell-off of private rental units is continuing apace on the eve of...

The management company of a private New York City rental apartment complex is to install a facial recognition system which must...

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put on the spot by the person many consider to be the country’s most...

The National Landlords Association says it’s concerned the Fees Ban coming into effect in just two days’ time may limit access...

The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...

A company appearing to call on landlords to abandon tenants and instead let their properties to short-let visitors is now trying...

The fierce competition in the lettings market in parts of London means that some tenants will feel no benefit from the...

A portal called Oneandonlypro says it’s using Artificial Intelligence to try to identify the top 10 best areas in London for...

A leading buy to let mortgage provider says the professional landlord with multiple properties is increasingly becoming the backbone of its...

There’s been another major industry survey revealing that a high number of lettings agents and landlords may quit the private rental...

Only one in six private landlords say they would support the Conservatives in an election according to a new poll. Buy to...

Belvoir, the UK's largest property franchise, says its trading during the first quarter of this year suggests it’s outperforming its expectation...

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

There was a notable increase in the number of older buy-to-let investors in 2018, according to Commercial Trust Limited. The specialist buy-to-let...

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...

A compliance company has accused “thousands” of buy to let investors of failing to address major household hazards which render properties...

A buy to let investor has been left with a £2,000 bill and a criminal conviction after letting out his property...

A quarter of private landlords are looking to sell at least one property over the next year according to new research...

A London council has won one of the largest-ever Proceeds of Crime claims from an unscrupulous buy to let investor. Andre Charles Trepel,...

A new PropTech start-up that claims to make student house-hunting easier is offering free listings to lettings agents with London properties. Polygon...

New data from specialist mortgage firm Commercial Trust suggests that London’s buy to let sector turned a corner in the first...

A new report by a leading lettings sector expert cautions parents who are considering entering the Buy To Let sector by...

Two rogue landlords have been convicted of failing to comply with a Prohibition Order on the rental property they owned. Sandeep Jarjapu...

A property investment platform claims that investor sentiment in buy to let is actually improving despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty...

One of London’s best known lettings agents says unfurnished properties can take 30 per cent longer to let than a furnished...

Three years after the introduction of the second homes stamp duty surcharge, landlords are “beginning to come to terms with the...

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let lender says increasing the rent to combat additional costs put on landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says there is a record number of homes available to renters - but this does...

An online platform claims it has found a new and easy way for investors to become landlords, describing itself as ‘PayPal...

The chief executive of Hunters has told MPs there are 19 properties on its books which specify ‘No DSS’ - but...

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

Figures calculated by Rightmove suggest that even when the Fees Ban and Deposit Caps kick in on June 1, some deposits...

A formal consultation process has started to consider government plans to extend Anti-Money Laundering from property sales to lettings as well. Unveiled...

The scrapping of Section 21, as proposed by the government, shows that Whiteall has “a Dickensian view” of the buy to...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

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

A building expert is warning buy to let investors that they won’t enjoy unfettered rights to extend their properties upwards when...

A buy to let investor has received a hefty fine “for endangering the lives of his tenants by failing to meet...

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

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

The government has beefed up its support for councils identifying and prosecuting rogue landlords. Yesterday the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

The owner of a buy to let HMO has been found guilty of six offences but has received a fine of...

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...

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

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors could earn in excess of double the eight per cent yield most aim...

Two buy to let investors have been fined thousands of pounds after failing to carry out improvements to unfit rental properties. Adur...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...

Buy to let mortgage costs remain stable with little movement recorded over the past three months according to a market snapshot...

Latest lettings market data from high-end agency Knight Frank shows that average rents in prime central London rose 1.1 per cent...

The number of London landlords exiting the market last month was a whopping 125 per cent higher than the national average. The...

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

It’s a vital time for letting agents to hammer home the benefits of buy to let and the dangers to landlords...

Changes to Capital Gains Tax which reach their full impact in the next 12 months could fuel property changing hands between...

A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...

New ‘best practice’ guidance to letting agents and landlords has been introduced ahead of the introduction of the tenants’ fees ban...

Fergus Wilson - the controversial buy to let landlord who with his wife once owned 1,000 homes - has named his...

A property management company is taking the unusual approach of suggesting to buy to let investors that they purchase properties with...

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

A buy to let investment service says its podcasts are now downloaded over 200,000 times a month and it has an...

The Nationwide is the latest lender to say it will not insist its buy to let borrowers enforce a No DSS...

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

A trade body says a recent court case threatens the right of buy to let landlords to repossess their properties. The Residential...

The average age of those buying investment property has fallen by more than three and a half years in the past...

The proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let homes in London with cash rose from 33 per cent in 2017 to...

A PropTech firm says buy to let investors should not respond to the slowing market by selling up, but should instead...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

One of Britain’s most experienced lettings experts has condemned the government for “almost singlehandedly destroying the traditional lettings market.” Lisa Simon -...

A lettings sector trade body is demanding that the government brings forward tax measures to address what it calls “the scourge...

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

A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...

A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per cent...

A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

The gap between the cost of buying and renting is down 59 per cent to its lowest level in nine years...

Demand for room rentals in London is so high their average charge has risen two per cent in 2019 already, claims...

Brexit is not a good reason for delaying buy to let investment, insists a mortgage chief. Andrew Turner is chief executive at...