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Propertymark has urged the government to tackle rising landlord costs immediately.The warning comes as new research suggests that landlords are spending...

Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has personally written to  a leading politician about a tax threat to the rental sector.  Emerson has...

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

One of the country’s most respected lettings agencies says tax is dominating the agenda ahead of Thursday’s Autumn Statement from Chancellor...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a warning to government not to use Capital Gains Tax reform to further punish the private rental...

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes.  Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...

London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...

New research has attempted to quantify the number and scale of rent rises that are likely to take place as landlords...

One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...

A survey for online letting agency Upad claims that 66 per cent of landlords are not going to change their property...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

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

Lettings expert Kate Faulkner says yields - a traditional long-standing measure of success for buy to let landlords - are becoming...

A well-known mortgage broker is quoted as saying that buy to let organisations are complaining too much over tax changes for...

Despite huge turmoil in the buy to let sector, there has been a significant rise in mortgage activity in the past...

The new Chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been ‘outed’ as a former buy to let landlord - raising...

New Chancellor Phillip Hammond has been urged by an industry trade group to reset the government’s approach to taxing the buy...

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...

Almost all landlords are considering increasing rents to pay for the higher taxes they now face. According to a survey by the...

The imposition of the stamp duty surcharge on additional homes would add another £4,500 to the cost of setting up a...

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

George Osborne has done more for the rental market than any other chancellor in history claims Marc von Grundherr, lettings director...

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

Today is the last chance for Letting Agent Today readers to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...

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

Letting Agent Today readers are being given the rare opportunity to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...

The latest £50,000 target to fund a legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords...

An online petition seeking the reversal of the Osborne clampdown on buy to let tax breaks has secured around 47,000 signatures...

Buy to let tax relief is still set to total around £15 billion annually even after changes to tax relief are introduced,...

HM Revenue and Customs has published the responses it has received to its 12 week consultation on changing the Wear and...

An online petition asking the government to rethink its raft of tax measures imposed on buy to let landlords this year...

A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...

Research shows that landlords are scaling-back repairs over the winter in order to optimise finances when a new wear and tear tax...

The head of a landlords’ association has warned the Conservative government not to demonise buy to let investors who typically have...

The controversial changes to landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief and to the wear and tear allowance “have failed to dampen the...

Thanks to Accountancy Age for drawing to our attention to the fact that not every country is tightening up on the tax...

While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...

The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...

The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...

The founders of the website saynotogeorge.co.uk have stepped forward to explain why they have founded the campaign.  Two Peterborough-based property developers are...

A new website - www.saynotogeorge.co.uk - has been set up as a nucleus for opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to...

Around 47 per cent of landlords will be affected by changes to the annual wear and tear allowance. That’s the result of...

The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...

A survey suggests that renters are worried that landlords who have to pay more tax as a result of changes in...

A survey for a lettings organisation has confirmed the belief that the government’s removal of tax breaks on landlords will almost...

HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...

Labour’s onslaught on the private rental sector continues, with the party now setting out how it will implement its rent controls...