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There wasn’t much by way of good news in the Spring Budget for landlords and property investors last month. Although some rumours...

The UK government's long awaited Spring Budget announced some key changes for the property market in an effort to stimulate activity...

It’s all change at the start of the new tax year, and with so many tweaks to so many rules, it’s...

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

If interest rate rises weren’t enough to drive landlords out the market, mounting maintenance costs could be. Various studies and surveys have...

I’m not especially political and certainly carry no candle for one flavour or another. I might argue that they’re all pretty...

Scottish property portal ESPC has announced a free Buy To Let event targeted at aspiring property investors and landlords. The event will...

After the Autumn Statement unveiled a major tax cut for January, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’ll pay less tax in...

The Mortgage Lender has two new buy-to-let products. These include a standard two-year fixed, with an initial rate of 4.69 per cent...

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

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

A new rental market study by Rightmove reveals that more properties entering the rental market have an EPC rating of C...

A quarter of Britons are considering becoming holiday let landlords to earn extra income from the continued popularity of UK staycations,...

Over 175 investors have put well over a combined £1m into a property management tech business targeting landlords. Digital platform EVO -...

A new study by a mortgages website says it reveals the best places for buy to let investors to purchase properties. Money...

  Second home market growth and falling house prices could be a combination for success. There’s been a clear positive correlation between profit...

A new crowdfunding platform says it’s opening up property investing to “a whole new generation.” Allbricks claims it’s disrupting “the antiquated mortgage...

Property taxes in Scotland have increased by nearly a quarter of a billion pounds in the last year compared to the...

There’s a warning that the next 12 months could be even worse than the last for the private rental sector in...

A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...

Brokers say that more than a quarter of their landlord clients plan to sell properties as a result of the red...

The government must explain how it will help the private rental sector - both landlords and tenants - through the cost...

Uncertainty has become a vastly overused word to describe our economic situation in recent years. But, once again, it’s an unwaveringly...

Property taxes in Scotland have increased by nearly two thirds compared to the pre-pandemic period according to analysis of the latest...

The economic chaos in the UK which triggered a dramatic fall in the pound has benefitted foreign investors. Research by Alliance Fund...

Who are you? I am the Head of Broking for Newable Finance. A specialist commercial finance brokerage. What is Newable Finance? Newable Finance is...

Landlords who use the Property Hub Lets online agency are in for a change - in future, their properties will be...

A new rent-to-own scheme means some tenants can save a slice of their rent to help build a deposit to buy. Financial...

There’s a gulf in the amount that landlords are willing to pay to meet proposed new EPC requirements and what they...

  Who are you? Danny Wyrwoll What does it say on your business card? Sales & Marketing Director What is Glide? Glide are a...

Landlords and owner occupiers alike could lose the most financially from rent controls according to a prominent rentals expert. The claim comes...

Who are you? My Name is Alec Chohan, and I am a senior finance broker within the Newable Finance team based in...

Landlords are many people’s favourite pantomime villains, on the hunt to hike rents and squeeze profits. The reality, however, is proven...

The head of a guaranteed rent business has been given an 11-year ban for scamming £6.7m from property investors. Sam Eustace, 36,...

A veteran lettings agency chief says future economic growth in part of the UK is under threat from a radical reform...

A proposal that landlords be fined up to 36 months rent has been put forward in a consultation paper. The Scottish Government’s...

Covid-19 has upended most industries, at least for a short while, over the past two years. But the tourism sector has...

A personal finance app says it’s teamed up with a new technology firm to provide a service helping landlords prepare for...

An accountancy firm is holding a free webinar for landlords and other property investors to look east ongoing changes to tax...

A new PropTech platform that claims to make buy to let investment simpler, faster and more accessible than ever before, is...

A new bank called Monument wants buy to let portfolio landlords and other ‘serious’ property investors to be amongst its relatively...

People you can trust are an essential part of your team when you get into investing in property. If you’re using solicitors,...

£223.7 billion. That’s how much better off UK landlords are than five years ago when you do the maths on the...

A new league table of investment potential has given a ringing endorsement to buy to let in cities. Select Property Group has...

A survey of over 500 property investors claims to have uncovered the UK’s hotspots for the coming year. It says some 44...

New independent research among 512 landlords show how they have reacted to the pandemic. It found that 65 per cent of landlords...

The Property Investor Show returns to London’s Excel Centre next month – the first major UK property event to go ‘face...

HM Revenue & Customs has announced webinars aimed at landlords in its latest bid to extract the maximum tax from buy...

The London international rental market, a long-term victim of the pandemic and travel restrictions, appears to be improving at last. High profile...

A platform claims it allows buy to let landlords to set up limited companies within 30 minutes, through which they can...

Chinese and Asian investment and marketing service Juwai IQI UK has revealed where in this country property investors from those locations...

A mortgage lender specialising in high net worth clients has identified those areas outside London seeing the most prime purchases. Enness Global...

Investors are sitting on an average of over £37,000 each in investment capital they are poised to inject into the property market. That’s...

The government’s much-hyped ‘tax day’ yesterday had - by comment consent - an underwhelming impact on the property sector. However, one tax...

Investors viewing auction property A property investor is a long-term investor who lives by the fact they will be substantially better off...

Many landlords and property investors will have watched the Chancellor’s budget with a feeling of trepidation. There had been hints of...

A new survey suggests that landlords are less enthusiastic than in the past about buy to let. The study 1,004 UK landlords...

A company is offering Sharia-compliant bridging finance for property investors. Sharia compliance in the finance world means for savers and borrowers, instead...

A combination of the longer stamp duty holiday and sustained low interest rates are likely to spur a new wave of...

A tax barrister has restructured his way of working and is appealing to buy to let and other property investors as...

A PropTech ‘prospector’ tool which analyses Rightmove data from an investor’s perspective has produced a list of the 10 best average yields...

A holiday lets firm has outlined six reasons why that sector may be a good bet for property investors, despite recent...

The last year has been one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate, the here and now, in a...

When 2020 began one of the biggest issues most landlords faced was the ending of tax relief introduced over four years...

Who are you? Radim Rezek, 31 years old entrepreneur who founded his first real estate company when studying the first year at...

The growth in the number of landlords and property investors in the UK has been astonishing over the last three decades....

The Green Homes Grant scheme went live on September 30 2020, offering landlords and investors the chance to apply for £5,000...

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

Although the last six months have undoubtedly been difficult for many property investors and landlords for others this has been a...

Zoopla has attracted around 25,000 property investors and landlords just over a week after launching Zooploma, a two week email programme...

There has been a sharp rise in buy-to-let mortgage activity as property investors look to take advantage of the current stamp...

Kenton Finance, a major provider of bridging loans, has announced that it will be opening new offices for business within the...

The UK housing market could see what first looks like a V-shaped recovery only for it to be quickly flattened out,...

With a number of property investors looking to take advantage of Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday by expanding their portfolios, NICEIC...

A growing number of international property investors are expected to increase their presence in the UK buy-to-let market over the next...

A growing number of buy-to-let investors are heading north for better returns, according to Hamptons International. But while investor demand for property...

A number of buy-to-let landlords have switched to short-term lets in recent years, as a consequence of skewed policy that favours...

Buy-to-let remains an attractive asset class with more property investors looking to take advantage of a notable increase in demand for...

Renting out a property as a short-term let or holiday home has proved extremely profitable for some property investors, and a...

Many property investors looking for high rental yields typically head north to places like Liverpool and Scotland, and for good reason,...

Buy-to-let landlords are being urged to take advantage of the stamp duty tax savings announced in the chancellor’s summer statement by...

The chancellor’s decision to order a review of capital gains tax, signalling a future raid on second homeowners, including buy-to-let landlords,...

There has been a general softening in residential property prices across many parts of the UK in recent months, suggesting that...

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has teamed up with West One to launch a new range of buy-to-let semi-exclusive products with West...

There has been a surge in demand for buy-to-let mortgage applications over the past few weeks, according to The Mortgage Lender...

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

Buy-to-let landlords remortgaging are currently doing so with a view to adding to their buy-to-let portfolios, according to Mortgage for Business. The...

The buy-to-let market has been impacted by tax rule changes in recent years, and as a result landlords have been unable...

Who are you? My name is Benjamin Hall and I’m the Founder and Managing Director of LOFT. What services does LOFT provide? LOFT delivers...

Roma Finance has launched a holiday let and serviced accommodation five-year term base rate tracker mortgage product. The criteria offered by the...

Renting out a property as a short-term let or holiday home has proved extremely profitable for some property investors, and a...

There has been a general softening in residential property prices across many parts of the UK, according to some estate agents,...

Landlords currently looking for the UK’s best buy-to-let areas should head north to places like Liverpool, Bradford and Sunderland, with new...

Lendlord has joined forces with Property Tribes to provide landlords with a comprehensive portfolio management product. Property Tribes will make Lendlord’s platform,...

Who are you? Neil Newstead What does it say on your business card? Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, sounds pretty important, but...

Who are you? Ian Wiggett What does it say on your business card? Managing Director of Henry Adams Lettings and Henry Adams...

Thousands of property investors, including buy-to-let landlords adding to their portfolios, face potential legal disputes if they avoid completion of transactions,...

Amid all the uncertainty facing the world, some people are in the middle of buying property, and while some home hunters...

Renting out a property as a short-term let or holiday home has proved extremely profitable for some property investors, and a...

These are difficult times in the property market, with a constantly changing situation creating a great deal of uncertainty. The world...