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Landlords have only until Friday to give their views on a controversial licensing consultation from a council known for its aggressive...
23 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Renters are typically staying in their properties for a third longer than they did four years ago, says the Deposit Protection...
18 April 2024
From: Breaking News
New data sourced from millions of Barclays current accounts reveals growing stability in UK housing costs, which saw their lowest uplift...
09 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The Government quietly announced population projections towards the end of January that could have major implications for the types of homes...
02 March 2024
From: The Big Issues
Confidence has returned to the mortgage market, with sentiment improving steadily month by month in the last quarter of 2023, according...
08 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Research by Zero Deposit, a deposit alternative service, claims that under-30s face an almost impossible task when it comes to current...
03 February 2024
From: Tax & Finance
A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The average price of a home in Wales fell to £234,086 at the end 2023 following continued economic and financial pressures,...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Analysts have warned landlords and others interested in the housing market from celebrating too much following the latest Halifax index figures. The...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Consumer Price Inflation in November was 3.9 per cent - significantly lower than the 4.4 per cent expected by many analysts. It’s...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - but just as it has done this, it’s revealed asking prices have dropped...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Campaigning charity Shelter is nearing a controversial signature threshold in its petition about the Renters Reform Bill. It now has over 123,000 of...
11 December 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s not just the weather that’s wet and dreary – the outlook looks bleak for landlords too as we head towards...
17 November 2023
From: Sponsored Content
The asking price of homes coming to the market this month is down 1.7 per cent on October according to Rightmove. The...
14 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Scotland’s Court of Session has come down in favour of the Scottish Government when it comes to rent controls. A case against...
03 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Average house prices are now falling 2.9 per cent annually in England and Wales according to the monthly e.surv index. Yorkshire and...
17 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A leading lettings industry figure says politicians should have the repeal of Section 24 as a major priority. Section 24 removes a...
25 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The Generation Rent campaign has launched a petition on its website to give councils power to license holiday lets. The campaign claims...
01 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Authoritative new research suggests that there’s been a 91,000 rise in student numbers to 2.3m - yet in major student cities...
22 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords and brokers are up in arms about alleged profiteering by buy to let mortgage lenders’ arrangement fees. These jumped last autumn...
15 August 2023
From: Breaking News
New figures from London-focussed agency Foxtons show applicant demand up 19 per cent in June, as the capital enters the peak...
21 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Annual growth in rental values continues to increase in the traditionally busy summer months, with little sign of an imminent slowdown. This...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A property law specialist wants a national register of tenants to allow landlords to check their history before rental agreements are...
27 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A normally-ebullient auction company has admitted to a big slump in the number of bidders at its latest sale. Auction House’s May...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A sports team has made the unusual move of issuing a direct appeal to private landlords to help it find accommodation...
15 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A new petition has been launched on the UK Parliament website to reverse the move towards Periodic Tenancies contained in the...
12 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...
11 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The Section 24 parliamentary petition, seeking to persuade MPs to reinstate mortgage interest tax relief for landlords, has fallen far short...
11 May 2023
From: Breaking News
HMRC says UK residential transactions in March totalled 89,560 - that’s a chunky 19 per cent lower than the same month a...
02 May 2023
From: Breaking News
A prominent estate agency says landlords and other property owners considering selling this spring must be realistic about asking prices. Savills -...
12 April 2023
From: Breaking News
The Section 24 parliamentary petition, seeking to persuade MPs to reinstate mortgage interest tax relief for landlords, is still struggling for...
05 April 2023
From: Breaking News
The Nationwide says March saw a further decline in house prices - they are down 3.1 per cent compared with the...
03 April 2023
From: Breaking News
The Financial Conduct Authority has set out ways in which mortgage lenders can help customers struggling with payments - but landlords...
13 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The Scottish Government, despite being in the middle of electing a new First Minister, is pressing ahead with legislation for long-term...
06 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into the workings of the private rental sector. It says the focus...
28 February 2023
From: Breaking News
A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...
28 February 2023
From: Breaking News
A letting agents’ trade group is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...
28 February 2023
From: Breaking News
A perfect storm is brewing in the lettings market with rents spiralling driven by increasing demand fuelled by workers returning to...
22 February 2023
From: Breaking News
New figures from London-focussed letting agency Foxtons show rental demand remaining very strong. Last month’s figures show that compared to January 2020,...
17 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Every year, those thinking about investing in property for the first time and even current landlords ask themselves whether it’s the...
11 February 2023
From: Agent Advice
The Generation Rent group of activists is promoting a petition calling for private landlords to pay damages to tenants in some...
06 February 2023
From: Breaking News
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has poured cold water on the prospect of any tax cuts in the near future -...
30 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Average asking rents for new tenants outside London have risen to another new record of £1,172 per calendar month says Rightmove. This...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The government may already have dismissed it, but the petition wanting landlords to be able to offset mortgage interest against tax...
26 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A nine-page legal document outlining landlords’ arguments has effectively stopped a controversial housing minister and campaigning organisations giving evidence to a...
25 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A coalition of landlords and lettings groups has submitted a Petition to the Court of Session in Edinburgh seeking a Judicial...
23 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A petition signed by well over 28,000 and calling for the reversal of tax measures introduced to penalise landlords has been...
19 January 2023
From: Breaking News
New data from Rightmove reveals the areas which have seen the largest price jumps in the past year. It says that Eastwood...
09 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The petition to secure government action over the Section 24 tax issue affecting landlords has passed the 16,500 benchmark but has...
04 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A petition calling on the government to reverse the section 24 tax change has passed a key threshold - but still has...
30 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords are being encouraged to sign a petition calling on the government to reverse the section 28 tax change which had...
23 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Foxtons says London’s market is finally cooling - at least a little - for the Christmas period. November followed the seasonal downward...
23 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts. So...
14 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Activist group Generation Rent has started a petition calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to freeze private rents this winter. As part...
01 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Rents are still rising rapidly across Prime London, hitting a new record high, as the shortage of property available to rent...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority has raised concern about a Build To Rent deal which it believes could result in reduced...
15 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Figures from London-focussed agency Foxtons suggest that rentals have reaching the highest ever weekly price in the capital. The average in September...
18 October 2022
From: Breaking News
The winners have been revealed in a nationwide search for the UK and Ireland’s best holiday lets. The awards, which were organised...
23 September 2022
From: Breaking News
New figures from London agency Foxtons highlight the continuing imbalance between supply and demand across the capital. It says rents were up...
26 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Over 5,000 leaseholders – some of them private landlords – could get refunds on their ground rent after the Competition and...
25 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A major lettings agency in London says the imbalance between the number of tenants and available rental properties continues to cause...
22 August 2022
From: Breaking News
New research from an online buy to let mortgage broker shows that average rates for some typical deals favoured by landlords...
16 August 2022
From: Breaking News
The UK government’s ban on the sale of new combustion cars from 2030 is fuelling a surge in Electric Vehicle adoption....
13 August 2022
From: The Big Issues
Generation Rent is promoting another rent freeze campaign. In a short series of tweets, and in relation to the predicted energy price...
11 August 2022
From: Breaking News
The Commonwealth Games, which begin today in Birmingham, could turbo-charge capital appreciation in the city by up to 15 per cent. That’s the...
28 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Labour wants to bring in a UK-wide licensing system for holiday lets to preserve the “spirit” of costal and rural communities. The...
20 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Average asking rents outside London have hit another new record of £1,126 per calendar month according to Rightmove. This figure, for the...
15 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Lack of rental stock is now the biggest challenge facing letting agents today. That is what every agent I’ve spoken to...
09 July 2022
From: Legislation & Compliance
Properties are still in high demand say auctioneers at Auction House London with no drop in the number of lots selling...
07 July 2022
From: Breaking News
New data from Rightmove suggests that rental demand is cooling in some areas where the market was busiest during the pandemic. And...
15 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords renting out to holidaymakers could be in with a chance of winning £10,000 as part of a nationwide search for...
12 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords have enjoyed more capital appreciation with the average UK house price rising again in April, up by 1.1 per cent...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Activists from pressure groups and London-focussed tenants’ bodies have handed in a letter to 10 Downing Street asking the Prime Minister...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News
PropTech firm Canopy says four out of five tenants have never missed a rent payment and that this should give them...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News
It looks as if landlords have enjoyed further capital appreciation with the latest housing market index showing still-rising asking prices for...
26 April 2022
From: Breaking News
The government has announced that its ban on charging ground rent on new leases in England and Wales comes into force...
25 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords are many people’s favourite pantomime villains, on the hunt to hike rents and squeeze profits. The reality, however, is proven...
09 April 2022
From: The Big Issues
Annual rental growth in prime London reached 11.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year, following a 3.4 increase...
05 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Even before the pandemic, we were seeing dramatic changes across the buy-to-let landscape with holiday lets steadily increasing in appeal –...
02 April 2022
From: Top tips & guides
The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...
24 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Fifteen businesses which had bought freeholds from housing developer Countryside have now given formal undertakings to remove terms that cause ground...
22 March 2022
From: Breaking News
As we approach what is commonly the busiest month of the year, there is one question many in the sector many...
19 March 2022
From: Agent Advice
A prominent property website, which monitors the lettings market, suggests that rent controls would drive a proportion of rental stock to...
21 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Airbnb entered the realm of holiday lettings in 2009, but it wasn’t until 2016 that it really started to gain traction...
19 February 2022
From: Top tips & guides
Landlords are being insulated from the worst effects of interest rate rises because lenders are so keen to win and keep...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News
A prominent country property expert has issued an urgent appeal to rural landlords to become involved in the consultation process which...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords are targeting semi-detached homes over terraced houses for the first time, but with limited stock availability and strong competition from...
05 February 2022
From: Tax & Finance
Property insurers have forced “crippling costs” on to residents of medium and high-rise apartment blocks in the aftermath of the Grenfell...
31 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Last month, I wrote about what’s in store for the private rented sector in 2022 and, like most commentators in our...
29 January 2022
From: The Big Issues
Newly published rental yield from Rightmove reveals that the average yield across Great Britain is 5.5 per cent. This is the highest...
27 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Yesterday Landlord Today reported that there was now a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage...
26 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords are being warned that the next Bank of England base rate rise, possibly at its next meeting in early February,...
10 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Some 6,000 signatures have so far been added to an online petition calling on the Welsh Parliament to “address” the issue...
22 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Something that has been touching a raw nerve with me for some time now is the issue of so called ‘rent...
13 November 2021
From: The Big Issues
The relationship between the overwhelming number of good landlords and local authorities tends to be limited or possibly non-existent. With the far...
13 November 2021
From: Industry Views
There are a huge array of products and services covering the entire journey of lettings, from prospecting all the way through to...
29 September 2021
From: Lettings PropTech
New data from Rightmove reveals the effect the staycation boom is having on the rental market across Britain. Seaside towns and other...