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21 December 2023
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All eyes are on HM Treasury this week ahead of the next inflation figures, to be released on Wednesday morning. Analysts suggest...
18 December 2023
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Landlords in the UK are paying 40 per cent more mortgage interest than in August 2022, forcing more of them to...
16 October 2023
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Two letting agents have been quoted in a newspaper report as saying landlord clients have instructed them to create ‘tracker’ rents...
04 September 2023
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A prominent lettings and sales agency says there are four reasons why house prices won’t fall off a cliff, despite interest...
22 June 2023
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The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...
11 May 2023
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The Bank of England has increased base rate to 4.0 per cent - its 10th rate rise in a row. Nathan Emerson,...
02 February 2023
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Rightmove says yesterday’s Bank of England base rate rise to 3.5 per cent - the ninth hike in as many Bank...
16 December 2022
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The Bank of England has increased base rate by 0.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent. This is the ninth consecutive base...
15 December 2022
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A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...
28 November 2022
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The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has agreed to raise interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 2.25...
22 September 2022
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The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has announced that base rate is rising from 1.25 to 1.75 per cent. The rate is now...
04 August 2022
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Agents are being invited to take part in a pilot project which claims it will cut down on ‘back office’ chores...
07 June 2022
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The cost of living crisis may be changing tenants’ preferences to such a degree that bills-inclusive properties are becoming increasingly popular. That’s...
13 May 2022
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A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...
07 December 2021
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Tenants returning to the office and city centres has triggered strong rental growth in the largest urban centres. Rightmove’s Quarterly Rental Trends...
13 October 2021
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Record tenant demand and record-fast lettings have combined to create an average asking rent above £1,000 per calendar month for homes...
15 July 2021
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One of the most active lenders for international investors in UK buy to let claims to have produced a market-leading mortgage...
20 April 2021
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Four out of 10 mortgage brokers expect more buy to let business in the coming 12 months, according to a Paragon...
29 July 2020
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A complex ‘sentiment tracker’ suggests demand is still strong in the lettings market. PropTech supplier Yomdel publishes a weekly tracker index; it...
25 June 2020
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The rental market effectively disintegrated in the early days of lockdown before showing signs of a rebound which are still active...
13 May 2020
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Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...
12 May 2020
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There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...
27 March 2020
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Hello - here we are with Friday’s help and advice. A reminder, if you need it, that we want to share your...
20 March 2020
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Mortgage costs in the buy to let market have continued to fall over the last three months - a trend seen across...
20 December 2019
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A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...
10 December 2019
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New research suggests that the recent fall in the cost of fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages may be coming to a halt. Online...
24 October 2019
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Landlords can make savings by switching their buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages as average costs have started to fall. The latest analysis from Mortgage...
04 July 2019
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The corner may have turned for the London rental market as prices grew between April and May, according to the latest...
28 June 2019
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A survey of mortgage experts conducted by one of the largest specialist buy to let lenders suggests that Brexit is hitting...
15 February 2019
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With good news in the buy to let sector in short supply, here’s a promising start to the week - a...
11 February 2019
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The average rent across Scotland is now running at £573 per calendar month - but that figure hides wide variations in...
03 December 2018
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The chief executive of a specialist buy to let mortgage broker is warning that mortgages for landlords are likely to become...
13 November 2018
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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
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Just one region of England and Wales saw rents fall in the year to September 2018, according to the latest Your...
24 October 2018
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With an average rental return of 7.69 per cent Ireland has been named as the top location in Europe for buy to...
11 October 2018
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The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...
03 August 2018
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The cost of buy to let mortgages remain at record lows and - with little movement in costs and rates over...
05 July 2018
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Data from Your Move's England and Wales Rental Tracker shows that the number of tenants in arrears increased for the fourth...
25 May 2018
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The cost of most mainstream buy to let mortgages is increasing according to online operator Mortgage Brain. The cost of a two...
28 February 2018
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There has been a sharp rise in the cost of buy to let mortgages since the November 2 announcement increasing the...
05 December 2017
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The autumn's Prudential Regulation Authority changes, coupled with months of rate rise predictions, seem to have had little effect on the cost of...
15 November 2017
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A new snapshot of the buy to let mortgage market suggests costs have dropped further over the past three months as...
16 August 2017
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The imminent mortgage interest tax relief changes coming into effect in April has triggered a surge in the number of mortgage...
14 March 2017
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The Bank of England's decision to keep the base interest rate at the record low of 0.25% has kept buy-to-let headline...
25 January 2017
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There is good news to end a difficult week for the letting agency industry - there’s been a further drop in...
25 November 2016
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The financial downturn was “probably the best thing that could have happened” to this country’s private rental sector according to lettings...
13 October 2016
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An action group campaigning on behalf of landlords has confirmed that it is ready to begin legal action against the Bank...
14 September 2016
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It is now thought that the likely average payout to each buy to let borrower affected by this week’s court decision...
10 June 2016
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A warning is being issued that the types of mortgages still being extended to buy to let investors risks them becoming...
10 May 2016
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The most common reason people give for not writing a will is that they “haven’t got around to it yet”. Sound...
07 April 2016
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25 February 2016
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11 February 2016
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As agents, you know that there is so much more to the home-buying process than simply choosing a perfect home, but...
28 January 2016
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Landlords should make sure they are regularly checking their property to ensure tenants are not subletting without permission. Staying on top of...