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A figure in one of the country’s highest profile lettings companies has hit out at a government proposal to penalise the...

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

Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...

Prominent MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have renewed their onslaught on Airbnb and other short let platforms.  Former Lib...

Thousands of lettings and estate agencies, and other property businesses, are in ‘critical’ or ‘significant’ financial distress, it’s been claimed. The latest...

There are growing fears that the hoped-for Bank of England base rate cut this spring - the first off possibly several...

New figures released this week by Propertymark reveal that even in the run-up to Christmas there was no significant change in...

Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...

A new report claims that Airbnb has generated tens of thousands of jobs in the UK and enables people to work...

A trade body representing short lets operators has slammed government housing failures. The Short Term Accommodation Association says it’s analysed local authority...

There’s growing optimism that tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting will see base rate held for another month -...

The Bank of England has revealed its latest decision on base rate - which in turn has a strong influence on...

The US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years - even though inflation in that...

The scale of investment in UK commercial property has fallen in all sectors, new research suggests.  Sirius Property Finance has analysed UK...

The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors - out today - shows tenant demand continuing to increase...

There are more Bank of England base rates to come, a group of property finance industry experts has warned.  Personal finance comparison...

The growth of the short term rentals sector has helped create an economy featuring jobs that benefit local communities and fit...

Spanish bank Santander says UK residential property prices look set to fall 10 per cent this year and will return to...

The volatile economy is forcing small agencies and other modest-sized businesses to put on hold millions of pounds of spending on...

There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets tomorrow, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...

Prime London rental growth reached 14.0 per cent in the year to the end of September according to Savills, but the...

This is a crunch week for the UK economy - and likely the housing market too - with a meeting of...

The latest lettings market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests tenant demand is rising further with a net...

Letting agents have been told they must have the right technology to reduce the risk of fraud. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder of risk...

Two franchise giants - Hunters and The Property Franchise Group - say their combined lettings book underpins their recent deal. In a...

The new trade group representing short lets operators is asking the government to make sure the short lets sector is specifically...

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

A stamp duty cut could reinvigorate the buy to let market and the wider economy as the country comes out of...

Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...

Airbnb and similar platforms have seen a collapse of business since the start of the Coronavirus crisis with some 70 per...

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

The BBC is reporting that the short lets giant Airbnb has been contacted by HM Revenue & Customs about its tax...

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

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

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

OneSavings Bank, the parent organisation of specialist buy to let lender Kent Reliance, has given a warning on the possible impact...

Yesterday George Osborne delivered his eighth budget as chancellor, announcing an extra £3.5 billion in spending cuts by 2019-20. The Office for...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has slapped down the Bank of England's claim that stability of the UK economy could...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

Chancellor George Osborne has been warned that rents in the private rented sector could rise if he scraps the tax-deductible status...

The head of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association is telling the Bank of England to back away from its strident warnings...

This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...