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The percentage of tenants borrowing money to fund their cash deposits on their next property has risen over the last 12...

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

If you’re moving home and have either plenty of equity or savings you can use for a deposit, plus a decent...

Spain’s Minister for Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, says the country is taking the first steps to eliminate the Golden Visa.  This visa was...

There’s been a bevvy of buy to let mortgage deal changes this week. Shawbrook has made a series of reductions across its...

Around half of first-time buyers say their prospects of owning a home are further away than ever due to the ongoing...

Houses in Multiple Occupation are making up an increasing percentage of buy-to-let business, according specialist lender Shawbrook.  In both 2022 and 2023,...

A comprehensive new survey gives the lowdown on buy to let in the UK. The study, by Uswitch, is lengthy and covers...

An analysis of over 600,000 tenancy applications has found that fraudulent applications rose by 140% last year.  The analysis, carried out by...

West One Loans has launched a new product range, called W3, containing a 6.84% five-year fix with a 4.99% fee and...

Landlords and renters’ activists are at either end of the spectrum reacting to a controversial report on the private rental sector. Yesterday...

There’s been a huge rise in the number of buy to let property repossessions in the first quarter of 2024 compared...

The popular narrative may have been that first time buyers have been priced out of the market, partly by landlords: but...

There have been more changes to buy to let mortgage ranges from lenders. Coming into effect today, The Mortgage Works will be...

A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...

The management of BTL properties, whether it's a modest collection of three units or a more sizable portfolio of fifteen, can...

Cardiff council is proposing new measures to help bring long-term empty houses back into use. Tomorrow it’s considering introducing a council tax...

The letting agents’ trade body has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically decided...

Rightmove is calling on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to use next week’s Budget as an opportunity to incentivise landlords to make properties...

SNP councillors in Scotland have come up with an innovative suggestion to improve energy efficiency in private rental properties. They want councils...

The bank Shawbrook has completed a buy to let remortgage for a new customer in just 37 working hours.  The landlord was...

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

The government’s proposal to introduce a new one per cent deposit mortgage scheme to help young people onto the property ladder...

A property finance consultancy claims that unmortgageable properties can be snapped up with a discount of 27 per cent. Apex Bridging says...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

Buy to let specialist lender Paragon Bank has introduced offers on its two-year fixed rate BTL mortgages, including its lowest rate...

Although SDLT receipts have been volatile in recent years, the property tax’s effectiveness as a revenue-raiser for the Government is not...

Data from lenders trade body UK Finance show an 18 per cent leap in buy to let arrears in the past...

Confidence has returned to the mortgage market, with sentiment improving steadily month by month in the last quarter of 2023, according...

A wealthy landlord, who also ran a fake lettings agency, has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

UK house prices rose by 0.7 per cent in January, resulting in an improvement in the annual rate of house prices...

A range of specialist buy to let mortgage products covering multi-occupancy properties, mixed-use or part-commercial properties, and expat investors, has been...

The Suffolk Building Society has launched new mortgage products aimed at private landlords who are planning refurbishments, such as a new...

A respected league table of yields in different parts of England and Wales has issued its latest figures. The Fleet Mortgages Buy-to-Let...

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

The Penrith Building Society has scrapped mortgage application fees for all buy to let and residential  products, including further advances, until...

A building society says it is considering ending its policy of lending to buyers of holiday lets. Martese Carton, the director of...

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

One of the UK’s best known platforms for mortgages has significantly reduced its Buy To Let rates. Starting from 3.79 per cent,...

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 -...

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

A new analysis of discounts available to cash buyer suggests they can save tens of thousands of pounds on some property...

Monthly interest costs have surged by 283 per cent since 2021 for landlords using interest-only mortgages, research shows. Octane Capital compared rates...

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

Paragon Bank has launched new five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages with nil product fees. Rates start at 5.80 per cent and there is...

Almost one in five UK adults has missed a payment in the past 12 months - and for seven per cent...

A campaign by a UK government to help landlords retrofit their properties with energy efficient amenities has had almost zero impact,...

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

Landlord confidence has improved over the course of the past quarter according to a respected quarterly sentiment survey. The Q3 2023 BVA...

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 housing analyst says student rent increases should be capped in the same way as social housing rents are. Rory Hughes, writing...

Average house prices are now falling 2.9 per cent annually in England and Wales according to the monthly e.surv index. Yorkshire and...

The Green Party wants private tenants to be able to force landlords to improve the energy efficiency of homes. The scheme -...

The rise of ‘Generation Rent’ is well documented, along with the spiralling rent payments they are facing during a tightening cost...

The housing market remains a buyers’ market, with 80 per cent more homes for sale than in September 2021 according to...

As the ‘big buy-to-let’ sell off gathers momentum, we take a look ways you can guestimate the value of your rental...

Three-quarters of landlords who intend to purchase a new property in the next year will use a Limited Company structure, it’s...

Paragon Bank is the latest to reduce mortgage rates for landlords. It’s cut rates across 22 buy-to-let mortgage products, with fixed deals...

Dashly, a platform that monitors over £100 billion of mortgages, says landlords in London renewing loans soon will be, on average,...

The number of interest-only (750,000) and part-interest-only (245,000) mortgages has halved since 2015, new Financial Conduct Authority analysis has found.  The fall...

Yearly returns on the average buy-to-let property in the UK were over £4000 lower in June 2023, compared to the same...

A loans company, Moneyboat, has issued a series of tips for renters before and during their tenancies.  It claims that by avoiding...

Landlords and brokers are up in arms about alleged profiteering by buy to let mortgage lenders’ arrangement fees. These jumped last autumn...

A growing number of landlords are incorporating in order to salvage profits from the difficult buy to let sector, a bank...

Beverley Building Society has entered the buy to let market for the first time with two new products. Its variable rate BTL...

The latest market snapshot from Zoopla suggests landlords’ capital appreciation over the second half of this year depends almost entirely on...

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

Over the past year, we have witnessed an increase in the proportion of landlords opting to acquire properties through limited companies.  This...

Details have emerged of an extraordinary ‘stress test’ created by the Bank of England and tested on eight major banks to...

Arrears in the buy to let sector are worsening at a faster rate than for homeowners. Octane Capital analysed industry figures on...

Landlords are being invited to a free event to find out more about help and incentives on offer to help local...

There is currently a lot of discussion about the mortgage crisis, its impact on borrowers and landlords – and calls for...

There’s a new warning this morning that rents are set to soar as landlords struggle with much higher interest rate payments...

This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...

Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...

HMRC has contacted Landlord Today to make a direct appeal to readers to explain the benefits of submitting their 2022 to...

Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...

The Section 24 parliamentary petition, seeking to persuade MPs to reinstate mortgage interest tax relief for landlords, has fallen far short...

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

Most landlords are no better off now, even after substantial rent increases over recent years.  Rightmove recently reported that national average asking...

The rental market is likely to see continuing high demand as first time buyers battle increased house prices and higher mortgage...

The number of borrowers taking out mortgages lasting 35 years or longer has rocketed in the past 12 months, with uptake...

One of the UK governments has backed a call for private landlords to get cash help to meet new Minimum Energy...

Specialist buy to let lender Fleet Mortgages says there’s been both an annual and quarterly increase in rental yields, up from...

Mortgage industry tech firm Twenty7tec says March 2023 saw the highest-ever volume of Buy To Let mortgage searches in a single...

Virgin Money has cut a range of its core, exclusive and buy to let deals. BTL core and exclusive highlights include -...

The Section 24 parliamentary petition, seeking to persuade MPs to reinstate mortgage interest tax relief for landlords, is still struggling for...

The Mortgage Works, the specialist buy to let mortgage wing of the Nationwide Building Society, has revised its product range for...

In the last three months of 2022, mortgages agreed for the coming months were down by a third from the previous...

According to the most recent statistics there are 676,452 vacant properties in England, nearly half a million of which have been...

Lettings agents’ body Propertymark says its proposal for tax incentives to be offered for landlords is one measure under consideration by...

Analysis by professional cash buyer and portfolio landlord, LandlordBuyer (part of Open Property Group), has revealed what costs make up most...

A buy to let mortgage broker is warning landlords that as many as one in three investors fail their lender's affordability...

It has been widely reported that lenders are expecting a rise in the number of homeowners handing back their keys as...

A mortgage expert says buying will become more affordable than renting by the end of 2023. Recent research by business consultancy Capital...

A building society that last summer scrapped all lending on some holiday homes has now come up with another unusual policy...

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

A Labour Party proposal to sell some long-empty homes to first time buyers for just £1 has been dismissed as the...

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

Suffolk Building Society has announced the launch of a new five-year fixed expat buy to let product for properties with an...