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The Labour-led government in Wales has issued a consultation proposing the abolition of Land Transaction Tax Multiple Dwelling Relief from June...

Two new build household names often favoured by landlords buying investment properties have announced a merger. Barratt has reached a £2.5 billion...

How can letting agents attract new landlords when they’re all selling their portfolios? That’s a major question for the lettings industry –...

Thousands of landlords are planning to sell properties. A Simply Business survey of 1,455 UK landlords reveals that a quarter of landlords...

It’s hardly surprising that the property auction market has seen an increase in activity in recent years, with buyers looking to...

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

What protections do landlords have when investing in a new-build property? From this week those landlords buying a new build home can...

Rising interest rates - which may rise further and dramatically in response to the government’s tax-cutting agenda - risk eroding the...

Specialist buy to let lender Fleet Mortgages new Green Mortgages across its three core ranges – standard, limited company and LLP,...

Existing homes have risen some eight per cent in value in the past year while the price of a typical new...

Buy To Let may have had a resurgence in the past year but long-term lending patterns suggest landlords have been hit...

Buy to let landlords are increasingly looking to the highest yielding areas of the country as a way to maximise their...

A former Conservative councillor has used a leading party website to call on the government to restrict the purchase of buy...

Landlords buying property today will get less for their money than in the past, as the average size of homes in...

Specialist lender Landbay has launched two new buy to let mortgage products for first time landlords who want to invest in...

This afternoon's Budget has seen dramatic announcements from Chancellor Rishi Sunak referring to the private rental sector. For landlords buying properties, the stamp...

Specialist buy to let broker Mortgages for Business says landlords buying now can use four tips to beat the chaos in the...

There’s been another fall in the proportion of landlords purchasing their next buy to lets in cash. Research by Hamptons lettings agency...

Now is potentially a good time for buy-to-let landlords to become limited companies, according to accountancy firm MJ Bushell.  Property tax specialists...

The chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce tomorrow changes to the levels of stamp duty paid on properties in England, but...

The government should aim to stimulate housing market activity post-lockdown by abolishing the 3% stamp duty surcharge for buy-to-let landlords buying...

Accord Buy To Let has cut rates on selected two and five-year fixed rate mortgages by up to 0.04% and extended...

Buy-to-let landlords in Scotland continue to achieve higher returns on their property investments than their counterparts south of the border, the...

Buy-to-let investors spent £12.1bn on new buy-to-let purchases during the first half of 2018, down 30% on three years ago, fresh...

The government must move now to start supporting those that invest in the private rented sector or risk seeing significantly more...

Redwood Bank, a new business lender, is officially up and running after completing its mobilisation phase yesterday, having already secured its...

Many landlords purchase properties near universities in order to take advantage of the lucrative yields that the student rental market often...

Landlords can earn attractive returns when buying property near a university, but only if they are shrewd about where they purchase,...

Letting agents in England will be banned from charging fees to tenants under plans announced by the chancellor in his Autumn...

The new lending criteria proposals for underwriting standards for future buy-to-let mortgage contracts put forward by the Prudential Regulatory Authority's (PRA)...

There was a notable decline in the volume of new rental properties listed by landlords in May as the recent stamp...

Tenants in London are paying an average of 7.7% more for new tenancies compared to this time last year. The figure comes...

A report from a mortgage lender has claimed that new taxes on buy-to-let will trigger a lending surge as landlords rush...

Landlords and property experts have continued to express their anger at changes to the stamp duty regime announced in the Autumn...

Two million homes have changed tenure in the last decade, either switching from home owners to landlords or vice versa when...