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Latest inflation figures are announced on Wednesday and the Bank of England makes its next base rate decision on Thursday. The Office...

One piece of good news to come out of the small print documents accompanying the Budget concerns capital appreciation. The Office for...

The Government quietly announced population projections towards the end of January that could have major implications for the types of homes...

Building on the momentum of 2023, the North West is poised for continued growth in rental and property prices. Early investment...

Two thirds of landlords say the demand for private rented housing is continuing to increase, according to new research commissioned by...

The average price of a home in Wales fell to £234,086 at the end 2023 following continued economic and financial pressures,...

There will be long term pressure on housing affordability and the private rental sector if demographic forecasts from a range of...

Despite inflationary and mortgage volatility over the last 12 months, a mortgage lender claims over a third of commercial landlords are...

The latest HomeLet rental index begins 2024 with a glimmer of hope for tenants as rents have fallen for the second...

There’s a warning this morning that stricter Energy Performance Certificate measures for the private rental sector may not have gone, after...

Analysts have warned landlords and others interested in the housing market from celebrating too much following the latest Halifax index figures. The...

The latest Halifax house price index shows average house prices rose by 1.1 per cent in December, the third monthly rise...

The Treasury has announced March 6 as the date for the Spring Budget and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has commissioned the Office...

Escalating rents have led many first time buyers to adjust their property expectations and accept smaller homes when they purchase, a...

Some 74 per cent of buy to let landlords are optimistic about the property market in the next 12 months, it’s...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 -...

With 2023 drawing to a close, flatshare website SpareRoom has revealed data which suggests a slowdown in the rental frenzy -...

Many landlords say they’re set to expand investments in 2024 despite facing up to 80 per cent higher costs in the...

Online rental platform Lettingaproperty is telling landlords to take a strategic approach to property management in 2024, to help tnavigate legislative...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...

The controversial Renters Reform Coalition - a band of campaigners including the Acorn and Generation Rent ginger groups - claims public...

By Luke Lightfoot, Regional Director of Asset Management at Sigma Capital As the fastest growing sub-sector in the UK rental market, it’s...

The Nationwide says 2023 has seen a surprisingly-resilient housing market but there will be no full scale recovery in 2024 -...

House prices may fall by up to four per cent in 2024 the Halifax is warning. Its Outlook for 2024 report says...

The year of proptech  The proptech revolution has been a long time coming but I think that 2024 will the year in...

Generation Rent says it’s worked out what rent levels will be in two years’ time. The activists say rents will rise 14...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - but just as it has done this, it’s revealed asking prices have dropped...

A respected financial body is warning that landlords face rising costs of up to 80 per cent in the next two...

Any hope of a near-term drop in interest rates appears to have been wiped out by a statement by Bank of...

The latest lettings market forecast from Savills says average UK rents to end 2023 at up 9.5 per cent year on...

The Office for Budget Responsibility - a Treasury department operating independently from the government - released its central forecast for the...

A senior Labour MP associated with the moderate wing of the party says private rental properties should be confiscated from serial...

Inflation for the year to October has fallen to 4.6 per cent. That’s a big fall from 6.7 per cent in September...

One of the first forecasts for the rental market for 2024 suggests that strong growth will continue. Property consultancy JLL says that...

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

Savills is warning that the average UK house price is projected to fall by a further 3.0 per cent in 2024...

It’s being forecast that there are likely to be major changes made to the Renters Reform Bill during its next stage...

Zoopla is warning that there will be further house price falls in 2024 on top of the 4.5 per cent drop...

Propertymark has set out its stall for next month’s Autumn Statement - and many of the demands are for improvements that...

The property investment service BuyAssociation has changed the wording of an advertisement after intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA says: “A...

It’s peak repairs season according to an analysis of one million tenant requests over recent years. The analysis, by Fixflo, says repair...

An agency chain is urging the Tories to stop in-fighting at their party conference and instead increase supply in the private...

The classic “landlord favourite” for buying and selling - the auction house - appears to be bucking the downward trend in...

Rents will rise 25 per cent over the next four years, outpacing the modest 5.5 per cent House price growth across...

Zoopla says a buy to let property sold off by a landlord is “typically priced 25 per cent lower than the...

Section 21 evictions are set to soar higher, a property association leader forecasts - because of the threat to abolish them. Data...

August saw a further softening in house prices which are now 5.3 per cent down on a year ago. The Nationwide says...

By Richard O’Neill, managing director, lettings at Romans Estate Agents As a landlord, your property’s yield is an important figure. It indicates...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and activist group Generation Rent have issued a joint appeal for rent controls in the capital. Khan’s...

Landlords are often seen as stalwarts of property auctions, and are attributed with helping the sector’s growth over the past decade. Property...

New housing affordability figures provide one underlying reason why many potential buyers cannot make the move and instead rely increasingly on...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

One of the country’s leading mortgage brokers predicts a rise in the Bank of England base rate next month - and...

Today's inflation figures effectively seal the fate of the housing market for the rest of this year - including the crucial...

A new Bank of England forecast predicts that average monthly payments on buy to let mortgages will increase by around £275...

One in three Britons could be facing poverty in retirement according to Scottish Widows - with renters amongst the most vulnerable. The...

A property management company is forecasting that Prime Central London’s short-lets summer is set to be record breaking. Glenfield Property Management says...

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

If this was typical of the past 10 years we would be talking of a 0.6 per cent average house price...

When choosing a buy-to-let property, there are many elements that need to be balanced in order to get the biggest return...

The property market is always changing, leaving investors on the constant lookout for their next big opportunity. With housing prices continuing...

The National Residential Landlords Association says it could take up to 18 months for many elements of the Renters Reform Bill...

New figures show that property taxes - often rising as a result of frozen thresholds - lead the way as the...

Previous estimates that half a million landlords are set to sell up may actually be a massive under-estimate, a property industry figure...

Experts are forecasting that London rental prices are predicted to grow by 3% this year alone, while prices may increase by...

One in 10 landlords plan to exit the sector following the absence of any government help in the Budget. That’s the claim...

The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...

  Second home market growth and falling house prices could be a combination for success. There’s been a clear positive correlation between profit...

House prices fell by an average 1.1 per cent over the past year - the first annual decline since June 2020,...

A letting agents’ trade group is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...

A controversial new report demands that the government uses next month’s Budget to sharply increase tax burdens for landlords. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s...

An influential housing market analyst says it now looks like house prices will stay flat in 2023, rather than fall. Nicholas Mendes,...

Lloyds Bank says house prices are forecast to drop seven per cent this year.  The bank - which is Britain’s largest mortgage...

The better-than-expected sales market has been a surprise to investors, owners, buyers and sellers alike, says Rightmove. In its latest monthly snapshot...

Almost a third of private landlords with a buy to let mortgage face the prospect of significantly higher costs this year...

An agency heavily involved in Build To Rent claims investment in the sector remains high - but soaring debt costs may...

I am, by my own admission, ever the optimist, but with a barrage of enquiries from concerned landlords facing very real...

Although most landlords will be on fixed rate mortgages, those suffering because of recent interest rate rises have some good news...

The mismatch between demand and supply will keep the rental market strong in 2023 according to an agency chief. Nicky Stevenson, managing...

Improving yields throughout 2023 may stop more landlords quitting - and, in addition, rental reforms are unlikely to be as bad as...

The Hargreaves Lansdown business consultancy is forecasting a 10.4 per cent drop in house prices from their peak, to take place...

The average house price fell a further 1.5 per cent in December according to the Halifax - and that comes on...

At LRG we are currently seeing rental properties go within days, and sometimes hours of being placed on the market.  Rent is...

Renters’ Reform Bill The Renters’ Reform Bill will dominate the PRS policy agenda in 2023. Signs are encouraging that DLUHC is considering...

December saw a further sharp slowdown in annual house price growth to 2.8 per cent from 4.4 per cent in November...

Specialist mortgage lender Aldermore has named what it believes to be the five best cities for landlords to invest in for...

The top end of the UK’s residential market is experiencing a growing divergence between heavily mortgaged and equity-rich owners, according to...

There’s a warning that the next 12 months could be even worse than the last for the private rental sector in...

The mood music surrounding the housing market downturn appears to have become less dramatic with news from the Nationwide that there...

A buy to let investment site has used Artificial Intelligence to identify 10 top property investment opportunities in 2023.  Based on analysis...

The Halifax has released a snapshot of the housing market as the year ends - with the cost of living crisis...

The next Budget, setting out government tax and spending plans, will be held on March 15 next year. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says...

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

Rightmove is predicting an average drop of just two per cent in asking prices next year - far less than many...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

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

Although the property and mortgage markets have been in a state of flux for the past few months, with rising interest...

Prices fell 1.4 per cent from October, which was the largest month-on-month fall since June 2020. And annual house price growth saw...

Mortgage experts speaking to a committee of MPs have given an especially gloomy forecast for the buy to let sector in...

Rent rises could finally be set to slow down because more housing stock is becoming available due to the cost of...