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Rightmove says it’s now cheaper to buy than rent in each of Great Britain’s biggest cities, highlighting why many determined first-time...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

Propertymark wants the Bank of England to cut interest rates following data showing soaring mortgage arrears and repossessions. Lenders trade body UK...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

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...

A new Bank of England survey has confirmed a growing outflow of landlords from the private rental sector since 2020. The Bank’s...

The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to bring in an emergency ban on no fault evictions and banks repossessing people’s homes...

It looks as if the rental market is set to stay strong for some years to come. That’s because lending for house...

It looks as if the government is accepting that there is a problem with how banks treat Pooled Client Accounts -...

Corrupt elites and criminal gangs who abuse the property and financial sectors will be identified and stripped of their cash, the...

Data from the mortgage lenders’ trade body UK Finance shows the wisdom of agents having a lettings division. The body says: “We...

With the private rental sector stressed at the prospect of stricter energy efficiency rules in the coming years, the body representing...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has agreed to raise interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 2.25...

A leading business consultancy says the Bank of England will once again increase interest rates by twice the minimum permitted. CMC Markets...

UK Finance, the umbrella group representing major mortgage lenders, says there will have been a massive 83 per cent surge in...

The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...

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

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

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

20% more landlords* are struggling compared to last year. They’ve been caught in a perfect storm of higher interest rates, bigger...

First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

The next phase of the government’s Rent Recognition Challenge takes place this week, as six short-listed PropTech companies know which will...

The conclusions of a new think tank analysing the private rental sector are “fundamentally wrong” according to a trade body.  The Residential...

Investors in buy to let in the UK are losing thousands of pounds in income - and it’s their own fault...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

Figures from UK Finance show there were 5,000 new buy to let house purchase mortgages completed in April - the latest data...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

The number of buy to let properties in arrears has risen again according to figures released by UK Finance, formerly the...

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place.  The team behind the site describe...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

London lettings agency Portico is working with a trade body to organise a seminar on what it admits is the “challenging”...

The mortgage director of Romans, one of the country’s largest agency groups, says the new Bank of England rules being introduced...