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

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

A controversial wealth management company claims that almost two thirds of private tenants have suffered a deterioration in their mental and...

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...

Tenants faced with eviction must have legal aid, the Law Society of England and Wales claims. Recently published statistics from the Ministry...

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

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

A recent survey by digital mortgage lender, Molo, revealed that nearly 60% of UK landlords have seen a rise in late...

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

Paul Johnson - a director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies since 2011 and a visiting economics professor at University College...

The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on migrating away from the emergency rent controls introduced in September 2022 and extended...

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 -...

New data from HM Revenue and Customs reveals a 22 per cent annual drop in residential transactions in the year to...

A Labour politician has returned to the subject of rent controls - even though the party has officially abandoned this as...

Almost two thirds of private landlords expect to see their mortgage payments increase over the next 12 months with warnings that...

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

The Bank of England has left its base interest rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent. Its Monetary Policy Committee, which decides the...

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

A survey by a finance firm suggests not all landlords are passing their higher mortgage costs on to tenants. Octane Capital has...

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

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

In an unusual move, London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says home owners in dire financial difficulties should be able to switch...

The challenges facing the property market right now are well reported; from rising interest rates pushing up mortgage payments to a...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has announced its decision on base rate. It will rise by 0.25 per cent to...

Whereas it’s likely that every single landlord has seen higher costs over the past year, two out of five tenants have...

House prices have fallen an average of 3.8 per cent across the UK in the past year according to the Nationwide. This...

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

A year ago, many landlords’ primary concern was what would be included in the Government’s long-awaited Renters (Reform) Bill. Today, with...

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

A charity claims that private renters are about twice as likely as the general population to be in problem debt. StepChange, via...

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

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

New data from Rightmove reveals the areas which have seen the largest price jumps in the past year. It says that Eastwood...

Half of private renters have faced a rent increase in the last year, it’s claimed.  Activists in Generation Rent claims of those...

The Building Societies Association says housing market sentiment remains close to the all-time low. In a sentiment survey some 47 per cent...

The government is under new pressure to introduce a last minute eviction ban to avoid private renters facing homelessness over Christmas. Liberal...

A business analyst has given a colourful assessment of the shortfall of homes to let, describing the current rental market as...

Scottish landlords have been targeted with a raft of restrictive legislation in recent years but most are staying the course and...

Coventry council has issued financial penalties on a landlord of a poorly managed and unlicensed HMO totalling £60,000. The council has also...

There’s rather a lot going on in the economy as I write this and, by the time it is published, who...

Unusual though it may be, a local authority is reaching out to landlords who may be struggling with their finances in...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has agreed to raise interest rates by 0.5 per cent to 2.25...

A leading financial analyst says what are generally called “period properties” are set to become financial nightmares for landlords or owner...

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has announced that base rate is rising from 1.25 to 1.75 per cent. The rate is now...

New analysis from Rightmove reveals that first-time buyer asking prices and equivalent asking rents have risen three times faster compared with...

Average asking rents outside London have hit another new record of £1,126 per calendar month according to Rightmove. This figure, for the...

New analysis by Rightmove is tracking first-time buyer affordability over the last 10 years - and it shows why so many...

As the weather begins to warm up, many will be starting to think about giving their homes a seasonal spring clean....

As we enter 2022 the private rented sector can look back on a year which marked the start of its recovery...

Many homeowners face situations where they have no other option but to rent out their home. Often there are periods where...

An accountancy firm is giving landlords 10 top tips to keep their cash flow in a healthy condition.  The Sheards Accountants firm...

For the first time in seven years it’s now cheaper to rent a home than buy one. So says the Hamptons lettings...

New research shows that monthly payments for the mortgage are likely to be cheaper than rent for a comparable home -...

The Financial Conduct Authority is extending the ban on repossessions by two months until April 1, in light of the pandemic...

The Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the government has sympathy for the plight of many landlords during...

A property industry accreditation service is asking whether it’s now time for the government to offer grants to help landlords through...

The Advanced Rent Option, which offers landlords a year’s rent up-front, is being rolled out across the UK. The ARO is the brainchild...

A  leading property law firm says the government’s ‘eviction ban by the back door’ means many buy to let properties are...

Generation Rent says there should be a reinstatement of the eviction ban immediately, and appears to have been stung into the...

With the staycation boom caused by Covid-19, which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future as travel restrictions remain for...

Housing charities want the government to extend the ban on landlords evicting renters beyond 20 September. Renters across England and Wales received...

Santander has confirmed that extended payment solutions and stay on repossession activity will be available for all buy-to-let customers as well...

One in nine mortgage holders in the UK has taken a so-called ‘payment holiday’ as their finances have been adversely affected...

Nationwide Building Society has developed a dedicated coronavirus support page to make it as easy as possible to arrange payment breaks.  The...

Some 13% of people use their overdraft to cover the cost of their rental or mortgage payments - the equivalent of...

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced rates on its five-year fixed rate buy-to-let and portfolio mortgages by up to 0.2%. Five-year rates now...

It’s impossible to ignore the recent boom of the short let market, as more and more buy-to-let owners opt to try...

Foundation Home Loans has launched three new buy-to-let mortgage products.  The new deal includes a 75% loan-to-value (LTV) five-year fix at 3.39%,...

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new five-year buy-to-let mortgage product aimed at landlords who seek rate certainty but with a...

There was an increase in the number of landlords reporting growth in tenant demand in the third quarter of the year. Paragon’s...

Virgin Money is targeting buy-to-let landlords looking to lock into decade-long fixed rate mortgage deals, amid fears over the economy and...

A new scheme will aim to offer landlords more financial freedom to expand their property portfolio or make an alternative investment...

Evicting an unscrupulous tenant could potentially cost landlords thousands, even hundreds of thousands of pounds, new research shows. Benham and Reeves has...

How does the idea of 12 months’ rent in advance sound? Choices Estate Agents plans to launch a new Advanced Rent...

The Tory leadership contest is well underway with just two candidates - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt - left in the...

A two-speed market has emerged in the buy-to-let sector as most smaller landlords have stopped adding to their portfolios, while their...

In the context of mortgage applications, the term expat mortgages applies to anyone who lives outside the UK but wishes to...

With some landlords finding it harder to make a profit as a result of changes to buy-to-let taxation, remortgage activity looks...

The average cost of three out of six categories of fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage has increased over the past month, while...

HMO properties look very good on paper. Why charge a single rent when you can charge four or five lots of...

Online letting agency Upad is now providing landlords with a new proprietary system to collect rental payments via direct debit. The agent’s new...

Private tenants who pay their rent on time are set to benefit from better credit scores, after Experian said it was...

  When your property is your largest asset, it’s important that you are putting the right tenants in. The last thing you...

Higher taxes, tougher mortgage lending conditions, along with political and economic uncertainty are making investment in buy-to-let less attractive to many existing and potential...

Many buy-to-let landlords may have reacted angrily to government proposals that will give tenants a minimum three year contract, but one...

The Ipswich Building Society has launched two new products to its buy-to-let range as well as added three products to its...

Landlords continue to feel the pinch after the latest phase of the government crackdown on buy-to-let came into effect last month,...

With more than a quarter of those in their late thirties and early forties now renting, the Residential Landlords Association (RLA)...

An increasing number of buy-to-let landlords are likely to exit Scotland’s private rented sector or reduce the size of their property...

A growing number of private landlords are planning to exit the buy-to-let market, prompting fears that rents will rise sharply as the...

There was a sharp rise in the number of tenants that saw their rent costs increase north of the border last...

Changes to the way in which buy-to-let mortgages are assessed and sold has meant that those wishing to invest in property...

There has been a significant increase in the number of landlords who are seriously behind with their mortgage payments, new figures...

But-to-let landlords are adapting to ongoing restrictions to tax relief on buy-to-let mortgage interest, with almost half of all landlords having...

The Bank of England’s decision to increase interest rates yesterday could lead to rents rising across the country as some landlords...

Aldermore has launched two new limited edition five-year fixed rate remortgage deals aimed at buy-to-let landlords as the specialist lender looks...

Nearly a quarter of private tenants in the UK are spending more than half their take-home pay on rent, new figures...

Rent payments should be used as part of credit scores to help private renters secure a mortgage to buy a home...

Private tenants who pay their rent on time could soon see their credit rating boosted in order to make it easier...