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![Mortgage lender encourages landlords to sell to tenants at cut price](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/HappyLandlord-400x310.png)
A mortgage lender has introduced a product which effectively encourages a landlord to sell to a sitting tenant at a discounted...
05 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour plans three big housing announcements within a fortnight](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
If Labour wins Thursday’s General Election. expect three major housing announcements within a fortnight. That’s the exclusive claim from the Sunday Times...
01 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renters ‘may be put off buying by over-strict mortgage regulation’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Mortgage industry research on affordability estimates that the cumulative shortfall in first-time buyer numbers since the financial crisis reached 3.1m by...
26 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Mortgages data shows uphill struggle for renters to become buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310.png)
A new first-time buyer study from Rightmove reveals that the average first-time buyer mortgage payment has risen by 61% since the...
24 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Interest Rate Decision announced by Bank of England](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_BankofEngland-1-400x310.png)
The Bank of England has kept base interest rate at 5.25%. Some industry figures hoped for a cut following yesterday’s inflation news,...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Election Policies could Push Up Rents, warns leading analyst](/upload/images/shutterstock_1911445141.jpg)
A prominent economic analyst warns that many of the rental policies advocated by the major political parties in the General Election...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![New Adverse-Credit Buy To Let Mortgage Launched](/upload/images/shutterstock_2061686003.jpg)
Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a new non-standard credit buy to let mortgage, following what it calls “significant broker demand.” The BTL...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Capital Gains Tax scrapped for landlords selling to tenants - Tory pledge](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
The Conservatives say they will scrap Capital Gains Tax for landlords who sell to sitting tenants, if they win the General...
11 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Left wing renter groups slam Labour for prioritising first time buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
The ink was hardly dry on Labour’s plan for a mortgage guarantee scheme for first time buyers before some left wing...
10 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour upsets Generation Rent by prioritising first time buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent activist group has issued a statement appearing sharply critical of Labour’s first new policy on housing in the General...
07 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Half of tenant moves triggered by landlord sales - new survey](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
There’s been another survey of landlord activity in the private rental sector - and this one shows that 50% of tenants...
17 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Political change may boost landlord investment, survey shows](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/1-HousePriceRising.png)
More landlords predict Scotland will attract the most residential property investment outside of London and the South East in the next...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental Market set to strengthen as First Time Buyers hold back](/upload/images/shutterstock_1987709999.jpg)
Around half of first-time buyers say their prospects of owning a home are further away than ever due to the ongoing...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Landlords NOT pricing out First Time Buyers - new figures](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageCalculated.png)
The popular narrative may have been that first time buyers have been priced out of the market, partly by landlords: but...
02 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renting set to boom as buying is even less affordable](/upload/images/shutterstock_1050917612.jpg)
The average house prices in England was £290,000 last year, some 8.3 times average annual earnings. This was actually down from 8.5...
26 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Empty Homes Scandal - TV property guru on the warpath](/upload/images/shutterstock_57880816.jpg)
Homes Under The Hammer property expert Lucy Alexander is fronting a new campaign to identify empty homes and bring them back...
20 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![House Price Boost could just be momentum … or it could be better news](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
The latest index, from the Halifax, shows house prices rose 0.4 per cent in February – the fifth consecutive monthly increase....
09 March 2024
From: The Big Issues
![Did Generation Rent see a different Budget to the rest of us?](/upload/images/shutterstock_727850932.jpg)
In what may appear a surprise to almost everyone, the Generation Rent activist group has described yesterday’s Budget as a “giveaway...
07 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lacklustre Budget slammed by landlord body](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association has slammed yesterday’s lacklustre Budget as a missed opportunity. Yesterday’s announcements - like to be the last...
07 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![First Time Buyers fail to take hundreds of millions in cash help](/upload/images/shutterstock_159264155(1).jpg)
An analysis of government data suggests that potential first time buyers have failed to take advantage of literally hundreds of millions...
01 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents demand banks cut mortgage rates](/upload/images/shutterstock_2189935121.jpg)
The letting agents’ trade body has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically decided...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lawyer steps up criticism of Gove’s attack on private landlords](/upload/images/shutterstock_194216909(1).jpg)
A prominent lawyer has stepped up her criticisms of Housing Secretary Michael Gove and his attacks on buy to let and...
28 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![What’s your view on tenants getting 99% mortgages?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Mortgage-400x310.png)
Rental sector and property industry views are split over the controversial idea of allowing first time buyers to put down a...
26 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Why the 1% mortgage deposit scheme is unworkable](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3-MortgageRates1.png)
The government’s proposal to introduce a new one per cent deposit mortgage scheme to help young people onto the property ladder...
24 February 2024
From: Rental Reform
![Renters may become first time buyers with just one per cent deposit](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3-MortgageRates1.png)
The government is considering allowing renters to buy their first homes with just one per cent deposits, according to press reports...
22 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Building Society warns it may stop lending on holiday lets](/upload/images/shutterstock_2382149531.jpg)
A building society says it is considering ending its policy of lending to buyers of holiday lets. Martese Carton, the director of...
09 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activist slams bank boss for telling buyers to save for deposits](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
The chief executive of Generation Rent has slammed the chair of the NatWest Bank for comments over first time buyers. At the...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![What Should We Expect from the Budget on March 6?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Forecast-400x310.png)
The Treasury has announced March 6 as the date for the Spring Budget and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has commissioned the Office...
06 January 2024
From: Tax & Finance
![Higher rents mean first time buyers compromise on size - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
Escalating rents have led many first time buyers to adjust their property expectations and accept smaller homes when they purchase, a...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector rivals unite against Tory First Time Buyer plans](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Both sides of the rental divide have criticised Conservative proposals to boost housing demand while doing nothing about supply. Over the New...
02 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour to scrap Section 21 on first day in office, says Rayner](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Section21-400x310.png)
Labour’s shadow housing secretary and deputy leader Angela Rayner says her party will scrap Section 21 on its first day in...
20 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Siblings join parents to help first time buyers quit rental market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AdultChildren-400x310.png)
New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers. So far this year...
08 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![England football star scores at upcoming expo for landlords](/upload/images/shutterstock_1927926020.jpg)
Former England footballer turned TV pundit and property expert Dion Dublin is to headline this month’s South East Property Expo. The centre...
08 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![It’s Grim Down South - capital appreciation tumbles in the south](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
New data from Zoopla this morning makes grim reading for landlords, especially those reliant on capital appreciation and with investment properties...
31 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent says house prices too high for tenants to buy](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/HouseValues-400x310.jpg)
A statement from activist group Generation Rent suggests there’s a connection between Section 21 and the period of time people rent...
04 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Are 35 year mortgage terms storing up problems for the future?](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/MortgageRates-1-Wide.jpg)
One in five first-time buyers taking out mortgages lasting over 35 years A record 19 per cent of first-time buyers took out...
07 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Race For Space puts premium on detached houses](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/UK-Garden-400x310.jpg)
Detached houses are the most popular type of property for those who have moved homes in the past year. The Halifax says...
31 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Crowning Glory - House Prices Since The Last Coronation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
When the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II took place on 2nd June 1953 the average house cost just £1,692...
06 May 2023
From: The Big Issues
![Labour bid to help renters buy sets alarm bells ringing](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
Labour’s proposed reforms to the housing market “raise many questions”, a property industry figure claims. Under controversial plans put forward by party...
05 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental demand set to rise because of first time buyer woes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
The rental market is likely to see continuing high demand as first time buyers battle increased house prices and higher mortgage...
04 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour video slams ‘rogue landlords and letting agents’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Happy_EstateAgent-400x310.png)
Labour’s shadow housing spokesperson is promoting a video claiming that ‘everyone’ in the private rental sector suffers from ‘rogue landlords and...
25 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lender banning second homes now suspends arrears fees](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Banned_400x310.png)
A building society that last summer scrapped all lending on some holiday homes has now come up with another unusual policy...
27 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s “a home for £1” idea mocked by leading agent](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
A Labour Party proposal to sell some long-empty homes to first time buyers for just £1 has been dismissed as the...
22 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lender wooing first time buyers into buy to let](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
A high profile mortgage lender operating in the buy to let sector has launched a series of products aimed at investors...
21 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property Tax Surcharge - politicians break rank to query measure](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
Two Members of the Scottish Parliament have broken rank with their own party to query the motivation behind a new property...
20 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![High mortgage costs and deposits set to keep rental demand high](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageApplyNow_400x310.png)
New data produced this morning by the Nationwide suggests prospective first time buyers are having a tough time - and many...
13 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Stay renting! First time buyers warned after interest rate hike](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageCalculated1_400x310.png)
Would-be first time buyers may have to settle for renting for longer and putting their ownership aspirations on ice, following the...
16 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Young adults under pressure with home ownership out of reach](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AdultChildren-400x310.png)
As the cost of living crisis bites and inflation continues to soar, new research reveals that people aged 18 to 34...
16 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tory slams government over second homes and “stuck” first time buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ApartmentSearch-400x310.png)
A prominent Conservative has described as “infuriating and saddening” the fact that so many Millennials are stuck renting and cannot afford...
12 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Canny landlords have chance for cheap purchases - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/SavingMoney_400x310.png)
A prominent buy to let lender says falling house prices five canny landlords the chance to buy property relatively cheaply. Emma Cox,...
08 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tenants rent for longer as first time buyers get ever-older](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/WomanSavingMoney_400x310.png)
The average prospective buyer now predicts they will be 37 years old by the time they get their first home. This compares...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental demand likely to soar as first time buyers defer plans](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
A new survey from Aviva has revealed that over a million people may rule themselves out of the first-time buyer market,...
24 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![First time buyers put off purchases and settle for renting](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
New research from Leeds Building Society paints what it calls “a harrowing picture” of the housing market for first-time buyers. It claims...
11 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Interest rates up as gloomy housing market forecast is revealed](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRatesIncrease_400x310.png)
The Bank of England has increased its base rate from 2.25 per cent to 3.0 per cent. This is the largest hike...
03 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour to stop landlords getting in first when buying properties](/upload/images/library/Labour-logo400x310.png)
Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has told his party conference that buy to let landlords will no longer “get in first”...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Landlord Update - the government's Plan For Growth](/upload/images/library/GovernmentImage-400x310.jpg)
The new Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke for only 25 minutes but effectively turned the recent history of British tax policy...
24 September 2022
From: Tax & Finance
![Stamp Duty Cuts take effect immediately](/upload/images/library/StampDuty-2020-400x310.jpg)
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut. In future there will be no stamp duty on the first £250,000...
23 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental demand to stay strong as first time buyers frustrated again](/upload/images/library/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
Around seven out of 10 prospective first-time buyers’ attempts to purchase a property have been impacted by the rising cost of...
21 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tax cuts for landlords in return for long-term rent deals - call](/upload/images/library/House-Tax-400x310.jpg)
A properly industry leader is calling on government to cut taxes for landlords who agree to long term tenancies and rent...
16 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Restrictions on AirBnb and other short lets to be debated by MPs](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/parliament400x310.png)
MPs are to have another opportunity to debate possible restrictions on the number of so-called party houses let from AirBnb and...
15 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Frustrated first time buyers may have to continue renting](/upload/images/library/BTL-CardboardHouses-400x310.jpg)
New data from Zoopla suggests that growing concern about the cost of living crisis and in particular rising interest rates may...
26 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Forget 50 year mortgages - invest in private renting to help young people](/upload/images/library/Mortgage-House-Keys-400x310.jpg)
A leading figure in the property industry has slammed the government’s proposals to encourage more lenders to offer 50 year mortgages...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rents rise three times faster than pre-pandemic - Rightmove data](/upload/images/library/RentRising-360x280.png)
New analysis from Rightmove reveals that first-time buyer asking prices and equivalent asking rents have risen three times faster compared with...
25 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government clampdown on Airbnbs, holiday lets and second homes](/upload/images/library/airbnb-logo400x310.png)
Councils will be able to control numbers of second homes and holiday lets under new plans unveiled by the Welsh Government. There...
06 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb Party Houses - new bid to change law for short lets sector](/upload/images/library/airbnb-logo400x310.png)
An MP has introduced a Private Member’s Bill which, if successful, would reduce what she calls the “nightmare” of Airbnb party...
29 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tax Take - Investors make up almost half of stamp duty receipts](/upload/images/library/Stamp-Duty400x310.png)
New figures released this morning show that buy to let investors and second home buyers now pay almost half of the...
22 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rents and mortgages cost roughly the same, claims Rightmove](/upload/images/library/MortgageDepositImage-400x310.jpg)
New analysis by Rightmove is tracking first-time buyer affordability over the last 10 years - and it shows why so many...
25 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Capital Gains Tax cuts for landlords considered by government - report](/upload/images/library/House-Tax-400x310.jpg)
A report in a government-supporting newspaper suggests that a proposal to cut Capital Gains Tax for landlords who sell to first...
24 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Renting set to prosper as FTBs face “frightening” price rise](/upload/images/library/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
The house price inflation facing first time buyers is “frankly frightening” according to a new analysis which suggests typical FTB house...
20 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Soaring rents keep rest of housing market buoyant - analyst](/upload/images/library/HouseSold-Price-400x310.jpg)
A business analyst has given an interesting interpretation of the soaring rental market - and says it keeps the wider sales...
18 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Cost of living crisis hitting renters most, suggests advice service](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/PayingBills-400x310.jpg)
Renters without a property to sell are likely to be the worst demographic sector affected by the cost of living crisis...
28 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists want controls on rents, house prices, planning consents](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Housing-1-400x310.jpg)
A protest by Welsh nationalists has called for a new Property Act to be passed by the Welsh Parliament, which would...
23 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![UK Holiday lets attracting more landlords, says mortgage lender](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/EnglishHolidayHome-400x310.jpg)
The specialist holiday let market is becoming increasingly attractive to ex-pat investors - and another mortgage lender has entered the sector...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tory complains about “coughing up most of income to landlords”](/upload/images/library/HandingOverKeys-mio-400x310.jpg)
A prominent Conservative has complained that her party, and others, have failed to do anything about a housing market in which...
05 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Stop landlords buying properties to let out, says Tory activist](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Conservative-logo400x310.png)
A former Conservative councillor has used a leading party website to call on the government to restrict the purchase of buy...
04 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rejection of first time buyer mortgages keeps rental sector buoyant](/upload/images/library/MillennialTenants-1-400x310.jpg)
New data suggesting that only a third of first time buyers are able to secure a mortgage at their first attempt...
15 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Home for sale - but not to landlords](/upload/images/library/ForSaleBoard-400x310.jpg)
A social landlord is selling a home on the open market but says it should go only to a first time...
02 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![London rental market set for boom as first timers look outside M25](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
The London rental market may be in for a boom as figures show Londoners purchased over 60,000 homes outside the capital...
03 August 2021
From: Breaking News
14 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Next Buy To Let growth sector identified by investment bank](/img/default/llt.png)
Investment bank and wealth management consultancy Arbuthnot Latham predicts the next big growth area for buy to let will be Houses...
13 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Outlook uncertain for buy to let after recent retreat - Nationwide](/img/default/llt.png)
The private rental sector is in slow retreat according to a new analysis by Nationwide-owned specialist lender, The Mortgage Works. Nationwide chief...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tax reform should encourage higher quality buy to let, says agent](/img/default/llt.png)
The government should use today's ‘Tax Day’ consultation process to reform Capital Gains Tax so that it encourages a smaller, high...
23 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenants increasingly worried over personal credit scores](/img/default/llt.png)
Despite talk of increased arrears and wider economic concerns, it appears tenants are increasingly worried about the long-term effects of poor credit...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Plight of first time buyers shows landlords needed more than ever](/img/default/llt.png)
A new survey shows almost two thirds of prospective first time buyers regard it as ‘impossible’ to get on the property...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![High-deposit cities may prove rich pickings for buy to let landlords](/img/default/llt.png)
A league table of UK cities where it takes the longest for first time buyers to save for a deposit may...
11 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Buy-to-let mortgage activity dips](/img/default/llt.png)
There was a further increase in mortgage lending for first-time-buyers and home movers in August compared with the previous month and...
16 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Platform reduces rates](/img/default/llt.png)
Platform has announced reductions to borrowing rates across a range of mortgage products, including buy-to-let deals. The intermediary mortgage brand of The...
16 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Landlords continue to exit the BTL market](/img/default/llt.png)
There was a further rise in the number of landlords exiting the buy-to-let market, new data shows. Belvoir’s Q3 Rental Index, compiled...
19 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Almost a third of first-time buyers want landlords to sell to long-term tenants](/img/default/llt.png)
As the Chancellor prepares to deliver his Budget today, research from Aldermore has revealed the measures prospective first-time buyers want put...
29 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Strong support for petition calling for BTL tax relief changes to be reversed](/img/default/llt.png)
An online petition calling for buy-to-let tax relief changes to be reversed has received almost 16,500 signatures. Buy-to-let landlord and property investment...
05 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Specialist Buy-to-let mortgage solutions for landlords with no proof of income & adverse credit](/img/default/llt.png)
If you’re a landlord and wish to raise finance against an existing buy to let property and don’t have proof of...
06 June 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Government responds to petition demanding tax changes for landlords](/img/default/llt.png)
The government has responded to a petition calling on the reintroduction of full mortgage interest relief and the scrapping of the...
30 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![More than half of BTL landlords to offload properties, says Property Partner](/img/default/llt.png)
Over half of private landlords plan to sell some of their buy-to-let properties this year, it has been claimed. Some 54% of landlords...
12 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Philip Hammond urged to scrap stamp duty](/img/default/llt.png)
The Chancellor Philip Hammond should scrap stamp duty because it would encourage more buy-to-let landlords to invest in the private rented...
22 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![The effects of the Manchester city centre housing boom](/img/default/llt.png)
A continuous increase in the number of cranes, hoardings and skyscraper frames around Manchester’s inner ring road is visual proof of...
21 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![‘Landlord tax’ raises £2bn from buy-to-let investors](/img/default/llt.png)
The Treasury has so far pocketed around £2bn as a result of the 3% stamp duty surcharge on additional homes, including...
25 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![BTL tax changes push ‘amateur landlords out of the market’](/img/default/llt.png)
The steady levels of mortgage activity seen through the first half of the year continued into July, with gross mortgage lending...
25 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tax hikes for landlords are ‘hurting but not working’](/img/default/llt.png)
The stamp duty hike and mortgage tax relief cuts simply do not add up for buy-to-let landlords, leaving many with little...