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A property industry group wants to restrict the private letting of properties bought in the future via the Right To Buy...

Scotland’s new Housing Bill - introducing a laborious eviction process and rent caps across the country - will ‘compound the mistakes’...

Lost in the noise of the King’s Speech, the general pledge to reform the leasehold system, and the subsequent political turmoil...

A panel of experts forecast house prices will fall as much as 10 per cent by Autumn 2024. Financial website Finder brought...

Next weekend sees a crash course event for landlords to bring them up to date with the 160 pieces of legislation...

The data from the 2021 to 2022 tax year reveals that it has been a bumper year for capital gains in...

A finance house says it’s seeing an increase in tenants offering to buy their properties off their landlords. James Briggs, head of...

The government has taken limited action over the soaring cost of mortgages - but there’s no direct help for landlords and...

A mortgage expert is warning that a housing market crash now looks ”inevitable” as expectations run high of what many be...

A leading analyst says the most recent house price index - released just before the weekend - is a sign that...

The latest edition of a housing market measure has suggested that one borough of London has seen rent rises of 33...

House prices rose by 9.8 per cent year-on-year in December compared with the same month in 2021, the Office for National...

Every year, those thinking about investing in property for the first time and even current landlords ask themselves whether it’s the...

The head of residential research at a prominent estate agency says the signs look ominous that “the housing market is headed...

The government is under new pressure to introduce a last minute eviction ban to avoid private renters facing homelessness over Christmas. Liberal...

Yes, it’s that time again when the property hoi polloi impose their predictions for the following year on us and so,...

Capital values are set to fall “further and faster” between now and the spring, a property expert predicts. Mortgage lender figures have...

Cycles of growth and housing market crashes, new technology, and, most recently, the pandemic-fuelled push to escape the city in search...

I think 2022 can be summarised as ‘unsettling’ to say the least. With three prime ministers in less than six months,...

Online sales platform My Auction is predicting its busiest auction of the year for December with entries up 77 per cent...

House prices could actual UP in 2023 - against the expectations of almost every property professional. That’s the view of Jonathan Rolande,...

Buy to let broker Mortgages for Business is seeking to reassure landlords worries that the values of their properties will crash. The...

A new analysis of the housing market by a leading rental sector expert appears to show little potential for a crash. Some...

Zoopla’s latest house price index suggests capital appreciation will rumble into next year despite the slowdown.  Levels of price growth will return...

A new kind of property investor is evolving. They’ve enjoyed the fruits of their labours, creating UK investments in property but...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Giles Atkinson and I’m one part of...

The demise of the buy to let market has been much predicted over recent years. Major tax changes, a three per...

New data from lettings agency Hamptons suggests that despite the slew of challenges thrown at the private rental sector, the number...

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed so many things for so many people. For international real estate agents in Spain, it has...

A visiting professor and accountancy academic claims landlords are not carrying their fair share of the financial burden caused by the...

When it comes to property investment, there is no one ‘right’ way to do it in order to succeed. Likewise, there...

A developer claims a poll of its clients show landlords to be bullish about the market, despite Coronavirus and Brexit. The company...

The absence of good alternative investments and the modest pace of capital growth for property in recent years are thought to...

Labour is calling on the government to unveil new measures to protect renters beyond June after the Bank of England warned...

Fresh figures show that there was a rise in the number of housebuilders completing new homes in England last year, helping to alleviate...

Wage cuts and a surge in unemployment threaten to destabilize the housing market on an unprecedented scale, as the number of...

Investing in property is not a get rich quick scheme, but rather a long-term financial solution to building wealth, as any...

There is an increasing trend for landlords choosing to grow their residential property portfolios by taking on HMOs (House of Multiple...

There has been a significant increase in the cost of popular fixed term buy-to-let mortgage rates, fresh data shows. The latest research...

With just five weeks until the UK is set to leave the EU, the impact of leaving the bloc without a...

A no-deal Brexit could trigger a deep and damaging recession with worse consequences for the UK economy than the 2008 financial...

Life just doesn’t get any easier for Theresa May. No sooner had her Brexit withdrawal plan been rejected by a record-breaking...

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

The chances of a no-deal Brexit are looking increasingly likely after EU leaders snubbed Theresa May’s latest compromise offer, but that...

A number of lenders have now passed on the recent interest rate hike to mortgage customers, which means that borrowers, including...

Some 93% of landlords financing buy-to-let property chose a fixed rate mortgage in the second quarter of the year, fresh figures...

A growing number of private landlords are planning to exit the buy-to-let market, prompting fears that rents will rise sharply as the...

Investing in the buy-to-let sector has proved a shrewd move for many private landlords, with fresh research revealing that they have...

Damage caused by storms, burst pipes and from break-ins were listed in a report earlier this year as the primary reasons that...

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

Thousands of landlords will be forced to sell up over the next couple of years amid Chancellor George Osborne’s tax hikes...

Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let (BTL) sector has collapsed and is now ‘worse than levels witnessed during the financial...

Conservative peer Howard Flight has condemned his own party’s attack on buy-to-let. Lord Flight published an article on the Conservative Home website...

As many as four million 18 to 39-year-olds are actively trying to purchase a buy-to-let property to cash in on the...