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Only 2% of current properties listed for sale in London have a tenant in situ, according to lettings agency Benham and...

UK house prices fell by 0.2% in March. Nevertheless, the annual rate of house price growth edged higher to 1.6% in...

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

Four years after the first Covid restrictions, new research by Centre for Cities shows Londoners’ escape to the country during the...

Changes to empty home council tax rates could generate an additional £540m from Monday, a lettings agency claims. Since April 2013, billing...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...

Zoopla’s latest market snapshot, used as a guide to capital appreciation by some landlords, says there’s now a three-tier housing market...

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

According to Haslams lettings agency’s latest House Price Index, a new hotspot has emerged for private rental sector investors. It claims Reading...

The government has issued a lengthy statement claiming more home owners, including landlords, are fitting heat pumps - yet at the...

A comparison website claims that an improved rating for an Energy Performance Certificate now improves a property’s value. This is driven by...

Research by Zero Deposit, a deposit alternative service, claims that under-30s face an almost impossible task when it comes to current...

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

A council claims “hundreds of residents have been made safer in their homes” thanks to a licencing regime. Sheffield council insists the...

The latest Halifax house price index shows average house prices rose by 1.1 per cent in December, the third monthly rise...

An analysis of homes that have returned to the market after failing to find a buyer in 2023 suggests that sellers...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...

The head of a major industry service supplier insists the Renters Reform Bill provision making it easier for tenants to keep...

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

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

Cash and mortgage housing market data show average prices decline by an annual 4.6 per cent says e.surv. But the monthly trend...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - but just as it has done this, it’s revealed asking prices have dropped...

London has seen the strongest rental growth over the last year according to an analysis by lettings agency Hamptons.   The average rent...

The proportion of private landlords who report increased demand for rental properties has more than tripled compared with demand for properties...

The latest lettings market forecast from Savills says average UK rents to end 2023 at up 9.5 per cent year on...

A new analysis has produced a league table of the most and least affordable rental locations in England. The findings placed Rutland...

Owners of London HMOs rarely put them up for sale, meaning investors likely need to convert a residential home into an...

Average house prices rose by 1.1 per cent in October, compared to a fall of 0.3 per cent in September says...

Rents saw an autumn dip in October, following three months of rapidly escalating prices across England.  According to PropTech firm Goodlord the...

Zoopla is warning that there will be further house price falls in 2024 on top of the 4.5 per cent drop...

Room rents continue to skyrocket across the UK, reaching new highs in the third quarter of 2023 according to flatware website...

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

New research shows that 676,000 homes in England are sitting empty. The research comes from property purchasing firm House Buyer Bureau which...

The latest Rental Demand Index from the Barrows and Forrester agency has revealed that rental demand has surged during the third...

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

The latest data release by comparison site GetAgent shows the average sale price over the past six months has been 97.3...

A new survey has revealed the regional breakdown of EPC ratings in residential properties.   Region Number of Lodgements (homes) Percentage of properties (D - G...

Rental markets near London’s Crossrail stations have seen premiums emerge, a new survey suggests.  Areas which have benefitted from the largest reductions...

Landlords are reducing their stock - and they’re blaming the Tories for creating a hostile environment.  This is according to the latest...

Former England footballer turned TV pundit and property expert Dion Dublin is to headline this month’s South East Property Expo. The centre...

New data from Zoopla this morning makes grim reading for landlords, especially those reliant on capital appreciation and with investment properties...

Over two-thirds of all new homeowners in London received family support to purchase their homes.  ‘Bank of Family’ recipients in London received...

A new analysis shows growth in the trend for buy to let properties to be sold with tenants in situ.  The analysis...

Buy-to-let landlords with property assets held in a company could be taking advantage of the current dip in house prices to...

There are few signs that the pace of rental growth is slackening, warns Hamptons. It says the cost of a new tenancy...

Investors selling a buy to let so far in 2023 made gains which were 10.1 per cent lower than those who...

The data from the 2021 to 2022 tax year reveals that it has been a bumper year for capital gains in...

July was a record breaking month for the rental market, claims a PropTech company. Goodlord analyses tens of thousands of completed tenancies...

The number of property transactions fuelled by the mortgage sector has fallen by 42 per cent so far this year. Britain’s more...

A property investment platform has analysed rental yields to see the best returning areas for buy to let investors. Sourced Franchise analysed...

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

A council in the south east of England says it is “exploring the possibility” of introducing a huge landlord licensing scheme. Councillors...

Annual growth in rental values continues to increase in the traditionally busy summer months, with little sign of an imminent slowdown.  This...

Auctions have long been a favourite way for buy to let and other investors to bag a property bargain. And now it...

The North East was England’s most affordable region to privately rent last year, Paragon Bank analysis has revealed. In the North East...

Private rental properties are being included in a scheme which may allow council funds to be used to improve energy efficiency. Cardiff...

The Halifax says house prices were flat in May, but fell 1.0 per cent in a year - the first annual...

The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...

Owner-occupiers aged 65-plus hold a record estimated £2.587 trillion of net housing wealth - and their homes are worth a total...

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

The government response to a Freedom of Information request has shed light on the increasing number of homes in England and...

New data released by the Nationwide shows house prices in every region of the UK slowing - and in most of...

After a hectic period of rent rises it appears that the lettings market is at a standstill according to PropTech firm...

A senior financial analyst says “runaway rents” are destroying the financial resilience of tenants. Sarah Coles, head of personal finance at business...

New buy to let purchases are increasingly being funded by cash rather than a mortgage, says Hamptons lettings agency.   So far this...

As many as one in 10 homes have a reduced asking price within a month of entering the market, a new...

The Financial Conduct Authority has set out ways in which mortgage lenders can help customers struggling with payments - but landlords...

The rental market is firing on all cylinders again according to the latest market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord. It says void...

Landlords expanding portfolios through cash purchases are securing discounts as high as £88,000 in cooling market conditions says a buying firm. House...

A new rental market analysis has revealed where in the UK has the highest proportion of private landlords.  Benham and Reeves analysed...

New rules introduced by a council in south east England will prevent smaller homes from being converted into Houses of Multiple...

Landlords with funds to expand their portfolios may be in luck - a growing proportion of properties on sale have reduced...

A debt advisory service claims it has calculated the overall size of the private rental sector. Sirius Property Finance analysed the current...

An unlikely location heads the latest league table purporting to show the highest returns on property investment. Aldermore’s Buy To let City...

The mismatch between demand and supply will keep the rental market strong in 2023 according to an agency chief. Nicky Stevenson, managing...

New rental stock accounts for just 16 per cent according to fresh figures released about the lettings market. Property company Ocasa has...

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

The latest rental market index from Goodlord shows rents down over the past month, with voids inching up.  All seven English regions...

Zoopla says a “widespread repricing” is underway in the sales market, but with no sign of cooling yet in the lettings...

The intense heat felt across the lettings market over recent months appears to have cooled a little according to the latest...

Zoopla has now joined Knight Frank and Lloyds Bank in forecasting a price drop in 2023. The property website’s executive director, Richard...

It’s disappointing to say, but once again the rhetoric from both the Labour and Conservative party conferences towards the private rented...

England’s private rental is forecast to top five million households within the next two years or so. The specialist rental platform Ocasa...

When accounting for inflation, renters are better off today than they were a year ago despite nominal rent increases of up...

Around seven out of 10 prospective first-time buyers’ attempts to purchase a property have been impacted by the rising cost of...

A specialist buy to let mortgage supplier has funded a £13m refinancing project. Zephyr Homeloans says the landlord borrowed the sum -...

Landlord numbers may have dropped in recent months but a longer term analysis shows the reverse. Total Landlord Insurance analysed the current...

New market analysis by lettings and sales agency Hamptons suggests that landlords are the largest group likely to sell up over...

The average cost of rent across England dipped one per cent during August, taking prices down to a national average of...

New data from Zoopla suggests that growing concern about the cost of living crisis and in particular rising interest rates may...

A mortgage broker claims the south east of England offers investment opportunities for landlords wanting to put money into HMOs. Revolution Brokers...

New figures indicate the ongoing growth of buy to let. Analysing data on additional property purchases made in the financial year 2020/21,...

An online rental platform suggests almost a third of rental homes may be deemed unaffordable. Ocasa, using Office for National Statistics data,...

Consultation events are to be held this week to gauge the reaction to a possible compulsory register for all Airbnb and...

A rental platform forecasts that within 12 months the average UK tenant could be paying £800 more a year in rent...

New data from the Savills agency shows how difficult it will be for typical landlords with mid- to low-value houses and...

For investors who keep their buy to lets for substantial periods - up to 25 years in some cases - a...

Rental affordability is deteriorating in parts of England. The research by rental platform Rentd looked at the current average income of a...

A prominent lettings agency says the rental growth seen in the past year will not be repeated in 2022, as tenants...

Buy-to-let lending hit its highest ever level last year, spurred on by record levels of tenant demand, the Stamp Duty Holiday...