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The five years since the introduction of the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes has led to a...

A leading banking and wealth management company says a growth area for the rental sector in the years to come will...

An agency which has for the past 11 years specialised in south west London is now expanding with a new office...

The popularity of buy to let mortgage products offering exclusive rates for higher value loans is a sign of optimism in...

An upbeat market snapshot for the lettings sector claims that one region of the UK has seen rent increases in excess...

A PropTech firm claims agents will win a “competitive edge” through the data it provides via its platform. Sprift says its interactive...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

Independent agent uses innovative ‘feet up’ campaign to win business. An independent letting agency has invited landlords to put their ‘feet up’...

Putting fingers to keyboard to create blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest job for agents, particularly when meetings, viewings and...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

Striving for higher yields remains the holy grail for buy to let, and new research suggests investors could be attracted by...

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...

Buy to let landlords specialising in student accommodation are facing huge challenges with increased government legislation and the impact of Coronavirus. That’s...

A council in London, where landlords yields and margins are already tight, says it wants to charge £550 for a renewed...

A new league table has been produced listing locations where a mix of rental yield and capital growth have given buy...

New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...

One bedroom properties provide the best returns to buy to let investors according to new research by a lettings management platform. Single...

An analysis of buy to let returns from mortgage lender Mojo has produced a league table with no London locations in...

A specialist mortgage broker is suggesting that this is the right time for buy to let investors to bag bargain properties,...

New research suggested that yields across the UK rental market are remaining broadly unchanged despite the Coronavirus crisis. The current average sits...

The latest lettings market snapshot by HomeLet shows that average rents across the UK are still not breaking through the £1,000...

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

Arun - which has the brands of Douglas Allen in East London and Essex, Ward & Partners in Kent, Cubitt &...

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

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

Another housing market snapshot suggests demand and confidence are improving as a result of the new political and economic landscape following...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

A lettings sector trade group says lavish additional services are being offered by landlords who are nervous that Brexit will lead...

The latest lettings market snapshot by mortgage lender Paragon has found that of the landlords planning to purchase property in the...

New investment in private rented housing has fallen since 2016 as some private landlords have dipped out of the sector in...

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

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

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

New research from the National Landlords Association reveals that migrant workers, and not professional executives, provide the best rental yield. The NLA...

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

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

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

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

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

Rents across prime central London have been roughly flat over the past year - although yields are up as a result...

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

Landlords’ confidence in the success of their own businesses has plunged in recent months.  Only 29 per cent of landlords have positive expectations...

London-focussed lettings agency Portico, which has expanded into the north of England, has identified part of Liverpool as the area where...

Average rents dropped in five of the eight UK regions monitored by property technology company Goodlord. The biggest drop was recorded in...

A flat-sharing website has created a league table of average rents in locations surrounding the top-ranked universities in the United Kingdom....

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

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

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

There has been no change to rental yields across the UK over the past month as the lettings market settles down...

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

University towns in the north of England and the Midlands score highest when it comes to yields and capital appreciation. The assessment...

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...

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

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

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

A slow rental market in London is weighing down on growth across the rest of the UK, according to the latest...

Rents across England and Wales have not moved in the last 12 months, according to Your Move.  The agency says the typical...

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

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

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

The average rent across England and Wales in February was a mere 0.4 per cent higher than the same point a...

Foxtons has given a relatively upbeat assessment of the capital’s rental market in its survey of the sector in 2018. It says...

Latest official figures show that private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK rose by 1.0 per cent in the...

The latest rental market snapshot from YourMove suggests that typical rents rose 1.8 per cent across England and Wales in the...

There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...

The latest market snapshot from LSL Property Services once again shows that buy to let investors in northern regions have enjoyed...

Knight Frank has issued a relatively upbeat assessment of the prime London lettings market as the year draws to a close.  Firstly...

New data from online buy to let agency Yieldit claims to give an insight into which property types produce the best...

High end lettings agency Knight Frank says the proportion of properties listed for rent in prime London residential markets in October...

Rent increases seen in London this year are likely to continue in 2019 because of the diminishing supply of homes to...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...

The average rent across Scotland is now running at £573 per calendar month - but that figure hides wide variations in...

A new investment company says its latest tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, helps buy to let investors search for the best...

OnTheMarket, which is beginning to undertake occasional property research, has released data identifying what proportion of tenants’ salaries are spent on...

Rents are rising very gently across almost all of England and Wales with only London and East Anglia showing falls in...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up...

An online estate agency specialising in the sale of tenanted buy to let units has produced a league table of regional...

Just one region of England and Wales saw rents fall in the year to September 2018, according to the latest Your...

New data from Countrywide’s luxury brand agency Hamptons International says the average price of a home bought by a landlord in...

Countrywide says landlords spent £12.1 billion buying rental properties in the first half of this year - a full 30 per...

With an average rental return of 7.69 per cent Ireland has been named as the top location in Europe for buy to...

A new investment company has launched offering what it calls “opportunities to invest in key residential and commercial developments across the...

A major property platform says London’s rental and sales market may well be on the road to recovery - but that...

The latest rental figures produced by Your Move for Scotland have prompted a claim that the country now has better yields...

A survey has revealed that 44% of landlords are looking to sell properties as a challenging market takes its toll. Octopus Choice,...

There’s more evidence today that the largest buy to let investment yields are coming from the north of England and the...

The latest Your Move rental tracker suggests that London’s lettings market has continued to cool with prices falling by 0.5 per...

Chestertons has announced record lettings results for the first half of 2018, claiming growth in market share and increased productivity. The agency...

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

A new analysis of rental yields across all of the UK’s local authorities has revealed exactly where the best places are for...

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...

An analysis of over 580,000 properties has produced a league table of Britain’s best and worst buy to let postcodes in...

Landlords exiting the market because of tax and red tape have led to “an acute shortage of available properties to rent”...

Data from Your Move's England and Wales Rental Tracker shows that the number of tenants in arrears increased for the fourth...

Time to put the gloom and doom about buy to let to one side - a new analysis shows that a...

Buy to let sector confidence across a range of measures remained stable or increased in the first quarter of 2018 compared...

Over half of mortgage brokers say they have been approached by buy to let investors seeking to diversify their portfolios within...

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

The latest figures from LSL Property Services suggest that rents have increased across the UK by an average 2.5 per cent in the...

No fewer than 44 per cent of landlords plan to expand their portfolios before July 2018 despite tax obstacles, according to...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

Homes in Multiple Occupation produced average yields of 8.9 per cent in 2017, the highest of all buy to let property...

A pullback in the buy to let market is threatening to reduce sale prices further in London and parts of the...

Rental prices in most areas of England and Wales have grown over the past 12 months with the East of England...

A survey has been undertaken of the top 25 UK postcodes in terms of yields for investors - and London and...

The specialist property investment lender Together is diversifying its product range to cater for investors who want to let out their...

A rental investment platform is claiming to have succeeded with the world’s largest property crowdfunding exercise, raising £2,992,800. Property Partner says it...

Consumer organisation Which? says a handful of buy to let mortgage lenders have found a way of helping so-called ‘portfolio landlords’...

Average rental values fell three per cent in the year to September 2017 according to Knight Frank.   This decline is the smallest...

Rents outside of London have dropped by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year according to new data...

Letting agents are being reminded of the importance of independent and professionally compiled inventories for individual students as they start or...

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

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...

Buy to let investors are losing confidence in their ability to rely on steady rental yields, according to recent figures from...

Landlords continue to look for cheaper, higher-performing properties according to the results of an index produced by Mortgages for Business. An analysis...

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has commissioned buy to let expert Kate Faulkner to assess issues in the private rental sector -...

The weakness of the pound since Britain’s decision to quit the European Union a year ago means that holiday properties are...

Stoke-on-Trent has been named as the UK's buy-to-let 'sweet spot'. Analysis of data from Home.co.uk by property crowdfunding plaform Property Partner shows...

The top ten buy-to-let postcodes in England and Wales are evenly split between locations that voted for the Conservatives or Labour. Luton...

A new report says buy to let will continue to provide good investment opportunities but requires an increasingly professional approach.   The report,...

An analysis by investment specialists London Central Portfolio reveals that in areas of central London swamped with new builds coming to...

Property investors based in the capital are increasingly purchasing buy-to-let properties outside of London, according to Countrywide. The UK's largest agency's latest...

Almost half of the investors in the private rental sector do not know what the changes in mortgage relief will cost...

Private landlords’ net income has risen 39 per cent in the last five years, jumping from £10.8 billion to £15 billion...

Upad, which claims to be Britain's larges online lettings agency, says Manchester has seen a 100 per cent increase in buy to...

Tenant demand for private rented accommodation is continuing to rise according to a market report from specialist lender Paragon Mortgages.    While a...

Professional independent inventories can save money for landlords at a time when tax changes threaten to make private letting for expensive...

A new form of agency which wants to blend traditional letting with Airbnb-style short lets has launched in London.    Lavanda claims it...

The central London rental market is beginning to show signs of topping out as tenant demand slides and landlords look to...

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...

New research claims that the financial benefits of renting rather than owning may have been under-rated.   A financial researcher at the University...

The dramatic slump in the prime central London sales market is now leading to a reduction in rents being achieved in...

The Northern Powerhouse agenda, increased infrastructure investment announced in the Autumn Statement and low entry prices make the north of England...

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

Regional lettings markets around the country are now outperforming London according to Your Move.    While rents in London grew 6.9 per cent...

Buyer enquiries from potential landlords and investors are now up 30 per cent since May according to Rightmove, suggesting that the...

Lancashire town Blackburn has recorded the highest increase in average rental yield over the last year, according to LendInvest.  The online mortgage...

Average rents in some of the UK's most popular university locations have increased significantly over the last year, according to SpareRoom.co.uk. As...

The average rent in England and Wales has reached an all-time high of £846 per month - a year-on-year increase of...

Leaders has launched a new online opportunity for investors to buy, sell and compare available buy to let properties   It provides access...

Data from London agency Portico suggests rents dipped 1.7 per cent during the May to July period, covering six weeks leading up...

New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...

Property investment specialists at online consultancy LendInvest have analysed coastal towns across England and Wales for their buy to let potential...

A new report claims that over a third of student property investors plan to expand their portfolios in 2016, despite the...

Landlords are increasingly favouring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and more 'complex property types' due to the often higher yields available.  Mortgages...

Average rents are now rising at the fastest rate since last Autumn, bringing the average monthly rent in England and Wales...

Landlords predict that one-bedroom flats will be the property type to increase most in value over the next year.  Meanwhile, two-bedroom flats...

A buy to let index of returns compiled by a financial firm shows the greatest returns for investors are now to...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

Good news for agents having to work harder to persuade would-be landlords that buy to let makes financial sense after the...

There is more evidence that the buy to let sector has experienced a surge of activity as investors rush to complete...

Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year.  Data from Your Move and Reeds...

Prime Central London rents across the capital fell for the first time in two years during the final quarter of 2015...

Rents across England and Wales rose by an average of 3.4 per cent in 2015 - the fastest annual growth rate...

Buy to let loans could outstrip remortgaging within a matter of weeks as landlords rush to beat the April 1 stamp...

Peer-to-peer lender Lendinvest, using data from Zoopla and the Land Registry, says Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Coventry and Oldham produce the highest...

The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...

The new three per cent stamp duty on buy to let properties coming into force from next April will effectively redraw...

Rents across England and Wales have fallen between September and October, according to data from the Your Move and Reeds Rains...

Buy to let investors in England and Wales have seen their returns rise to around 10 per cent in the past...

Another property crowdfunding platform is launching in a bid to attract would-be investors who cannot afford or choose not to enter...

The number of buy to let mortgage products has leapt to 953 - an 11 per cent increase in the past...

Would-be buy to let investors have been given a neat summary of the risks involved in entering the market via crowdfunding. Letting...

Scottish rents have fallen month-on-month for the first time since the start of the year - and rent controls may make...

The average void period has dipped below 2.6 weeks per year according to a survey of the private rental sector by...

A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...

Rents across England and Wales have dipped by 0.1 per cent and now stand at an average of £803 per month. Annual...

The average rent in Scotland has plateaued, remaining at an all-time record high of £549 a month, according to Your Move's...

Brandon in Suffolk is the most profitable location for pensioners to invest in buy-to-let property with an average yield of 8.59%. This...

There has been a huge increase in the number of investors acquiring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in the North West...

Investment into the country’s student housing market hit £3.98 billion in the first half 2015, well ahead of the £2.35 billion...

Wednesday’s budget proved a grim viewing for those who have worked in the rental sector for some time and watched the...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

A new survey suggests 40 per cent of landlords derive their main source of income from letting property. The study of 500...

A peer-to-peer lender says its study of 1,000 buy to let locations across the UK suggestsfour of the 10 highest yields...