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Many young people would find it significantly harder to get a foot on the housing ladder, leaving many effectively renting for...

Every year is the same. Come tax season, landlords all over the UK find themselves confused when filing a self assessment...

Buy-to-let landlords could soon be required to pay more money in capital gains tax (CGT) under new proposals put forward by...

For most people, their properties are their most valuable asset. And for anyone with children, the consequence of not having made...

Although new capital gains tax rules could cost some landlords thousands of pounds when they sell up, property is still a...

Buy-to-let landlords, property investors and second home owners are being urged to beware of a ‘dramatic change’ to the existing capital...

The holiday rental market in this country looks set for another busy summer as the weak pound persuades millions to opt for...

There could soon be a sharp rise in the number of buy-to-let looking to sell up as a consequence of the...

Every little helps to boost Tesco sales, and yet Britain’s biggest retailer is not paying anywhere near as much tax as...

It’s now three years since the then Conservative Chancellor George Osborne introduced a series of measures aimed, principally, at cooling the...

Draconian tax changes applying to buy-to-let investors will leave many private landlords with little alternative but to evict tenants and sell...

Renters in central London now face having to bid against each other, pushing rents up in the process, as a result...

As the Chancellor prepares to deliver his Budget today, research from Aldermore has revealed the measures prospective first-time buyers want put...

Several ideas have been floated as potential proposals in this month’s Budget, including financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. But...

Philip Hammond is coming under increasing pressure to reverse draconian tax changes applying to buy-to-let landlords. A number of landlords have been...

Proposals drawn up by Conservative think tank Onward to allow existing buy-to-let properties to be eligible for 100% capital gains tax...

The government is considering plans to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies, according to the Sunday Times. The government is...

The Chancellor Philip Hammond may have only announced last week that the Autumn Budget will take place on Monday 29 October,...

The proportion of let properties in the UK that are owned by overseas landlords has dropped dramatically, according to new figures. The...

From a landlord’s perspective, it has been a tough couple of years, with a raft of changes designed to bring the...

Lord Flight, a former Conservative Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has once again criticised his own party’s buy-to-let tax changes,...

With savers receiving dismal returns from banks and building societies, thousands more people are turning to buy-to-let as a means of...

Capital gains tax receipts hit £5.5bn in January, leaving the Treasury on course to rake in as much as £8.8bn this...

Buy-to-let landlords are being invited to take part in a free seminar in Cumbria next week. The event, which will be held...

A growing number of buy-to-let landlords are letting out their homes as short-term holiday lets, making them no longer available for...

But-to-let landlords are adapting to ongoing restrictions to tax relief on buy-to-let mortgage interest, with almost half of all landlords having...

The importance of the private rented market in this country should not be underestimated – it is a crucial source of...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has submitted recommendations to HM Treasury ahead of Autumn Budget Statement, due to be delivered on...

A landlord has been jailed for failing to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of his rental properties. Richard Fuller, 53,...

The number of overseas investors with buy-to-let properties has dropped sharply after a tax and regulatory clampdown, reducing the number of...

Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s chief economist, last year confirmed what many of us already knew – investing in property...

Very few of us enjoy filling in a tax return. But here are a few suggestions put forward by London based...

Over the past year, the buy to let market has experienced some substantial changes, most recently the new taxation laws which...

The vast majority of Britons, including many renters who could soon find their rents rising as landlords look to recoup their...

Asset manager, LCP, is set to launch a new Sharia-compliant fund with a view to investing in the mainstream private rented...

The government could go a long way towards boosting the stock of properties available for sale, which remains close to record...

Kevin Hollinrake, the Conservative MP and co-founder of Hunters estate agents, has tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill calling for...

The National Landlord Association (NLA) has issued a report insisting that late additions to the Finance Bill at Committee Stage regarding...

Greater scrutiny of the capital gains tax exemption, which is used by people selling their main home, is required to help...

An MP has spoken out in favour of buy-to-let landlords by insisting that they should never have been denied a tax...

George Osborne has slashed the capital gains tax (CGT) rate – but not for landlords, prompting an angry response from the...

A critic of the suggestion that buy-to-let landlords could set up companies to ‘beat’ the ending of tax breaks has renewed...

Property insiders mostly celebrated the Conservative election victory, but tenants’ groups complained of being ignored. As David Cameron enters a second term...