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Increasing numbers of lenders are now offering incentives to win the business of landlords with good, or improving, EPC ratings. In what...
28 November 2022
From: Breaking News
New market analysis by lettings and sales agency Hamptons suggests that landlords are the largest group likely to sell up over...
02 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Rents across Great Britain rose by an average of 8.3 per cent over the last 12 months, marking a gradual slowdown...
24 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Rental growth rates slipped back slightly during the early part of summer according to an analysis by the Hamptons lettings agency,...
18 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A national lettings agency chain is offering what it calls “first-of-its-kind EPC+” to landlords. Connells says this will provide landlords with better...
06 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A tenant has received what has been described as a “grovelling” apology from the Connells lettings agency after it switched her...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News
This year, landlord and owner-occupier Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007. New data, from Connells-owned agency...
30 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, is to sit on a new Lettings sector body set up...
24 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Rental growth accelerated in May to reach a new record high according to Connells-owned lettings agency Hamptons. Last month the average cost...
14 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The new Tory-led government is being urged to reverse punitive tax policies affecting private landlords in order to increase much needed...
12 June 2017
From: Breaking News
There has been a significant fall in buy-to-let valuation activity, according to forecasts by Connells Survey & Valuation. The proportion of buy-to-let...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
The buy-to-let sector is continuing to struggle with valuations contracting 26% on an annual basis following a turbulent year, according to...
17 January 2017
From: Breaking News
Tax changes and more stringent mortgage lending conditions will sound the death knell for small buy-to-let landlords, according to Britain’s largest...
12 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let valuation instructions have dropped sharply since the stamp duty surcharge was introduced on additional properties – and now the government’s...
07 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let activity contracted 13.3% over the last 12 months, which is unsurprising given the raft of tax changes by the government...
09 November 2016
From: Breaking News
From a landlord’s perspective, it has been a tough year, with a raft of changes designed to bring the booming housing...
12 October 2016
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let activity surged in August despite the various economic and political challenges that the sector has faced recently, fresh research shows. Despite the...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
The UK’s buy-to-let sector has experienced a surge of activity as investors rush to complete their transactions before the new stamp...
09 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Q: What does it say on your business card? Head of Lettings, Connells Q: What is Connells? Connells is one of the UK’s leading...