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A prominent lawyer has stepped up her criticisms of Housing Secretary Michael Gove and his attacks on buy to let and...

Rental sector and property industry views are split over the controversial idea of allowing first time buyers to put down a...

The government is considering allowing renters to buy their first homes with just one per cent deposits, according  to press reports...

A new analysis of the private rental sector suggests that between 800,000 and one million more homes are required to meet...

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

Both sides of the rental divide have criticised Conservative proposals to boost housing demand while doing nothing about supply. Over the New...

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

Our generations-old obsession with home-ownership may be waning for the first time in recent memory. The introduction of the Housing Act in...

A prominent buying agent says nervous buyers are pre-emptively slashing asking prices before the housing market worsens. If true, this could present...

An experienced property lawyer who has specialised in residential landlord and tenant law for 22 years says she is embarrassed at...

A survey of homebuyers has revealed opposition to the rumoured return of the Help To Buy initiative to get tenants to...

The average prospective buyer now predicts they will be 37 years old by the time they get their first home.  This compares...

An online property platform says it expects May’s sales figures for new build searches to be slightly below expectations. This is as...

For many years now developers, freeholders and landlords have been engaged in the practice of utilising ground rents as lucrative investments...

The private rental sector is in slow retreat according to a new analysis by Nationwide-owned specialist lender, The Mortgage Works. Nationwide chief...

It’s feared that the government’s latest funding to solve the cladding crisis will leave thousands of landlords with loans and unsellable...

On top of the rush to beat the stamp duty holiday deadline and changes to Help To Buy - both with cliff...

Who are you? Craig Hayward How do you help landlords and property investors? With over 10 years’ experience we have been helping landlords and...

Fresh research from Proportunity reveals how different property types performed over the past decade, based on price growth.  The data, collected across...

With just one day until voting day, each of the main political parties has outlined its plans for the country, including for...

Property website Zoopla has released the keywords that prospective homebuyers are most likely to use when searching on the site. ‘Garage’, ‘garden’...

Just days after Landlord Today and sister publication, Estate Agent Today, published stories outlining the lack of government response to our...

Platform has announced reductions to borrowing rates across a range of mortgage products, including buy-to-let deals. The intermediary mortgage brand of The...

Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...

More than a third of renters across the UK report being stuck in poorly maintained homes with landlords who refuse to...

In recent weeks our campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold has continued to gather momentum both in the press and across...

Loughborough Building Society has launched a new buy-to-let range with two, three and five-year rates available up to 80% loan-to-value (LTV). There...

Millennials looking to get a foot on the housing ladder are now able to do so two years earlier because of the...

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

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

Barclays and NatWest have introduced rate changes to some of their buy-to-let purchase mortgage products. Barclays has raised rates across no fewer...

We have seen a significant amount of publicity recently surrounding the sale of leasehold houses and the imposition of significant ground...

Principality Building Society has reignited the mortgage rate war by reducing rates across some of its buy-to-let mortgage products. The lender said...

It is well known that homeownership rates have been falling rapidly, particularly among young people, despite government efforts to reverse the...

With almost 5.8 million households expected to be living in private rented accommodation within four years as homeownership and social renting...

The number of mortgages approved for buy-to-let acquisitions fell in April, according to the latest figures, which suggest that many landlords...

With only a few hours left of voting in the general election, the balance of power will have a major impact...

The Conservatives have announced a range of housing policies designed to help them win the general election, including pledging to build...

Principality Building Society has reduced rates across some of its buy-to-let mortgage products by 0.1% in a concerted effort to win...

London continues to be one of the most expensive cities in the world in which to rent property, second only to...

There was a sharp decline in the amount buy-to-let investors borrowed to acquire property in August, reflecting the fact that a...

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

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has cut its standard buy-to-let two-year fixed range for purchase and remortgage products by 19-23 bps, as it...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

The Autumn Statement also saw the Help To Buy scheme tweaked to help first-time buyers purchasing property in London. The scheme is...