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An investigation by Sky News and a housing campaigner have revealed that there are some 33,993 vacant council properties in England...
10 June 2024
From: Breaking News
A new version of research first released in May 2023 once again lashes some MPs for being landlords. 38 Degrees - an...
25 April 2024
From: Breaking News
A rental sector insurance firm has hit back at claims made about Section 21 by the charity Citizens Advice. A spokesperson for...
11 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A spokesperson for the Citizens Advice charity has claimed at a public meeting that private landlords serve Section 21 notices on...
02 January 2024
From: Breaking News
An insurance firm has identified locations which, according to current portal listings, have the highest proportion of dog-friendly rental properties. The league...
25 May 2023
From: Breaking News
An unlikely location heads the latest league table purporting to show the highest returns on property investment. Aldermore’s Buy To let City...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Student property enquiries in the run-up to the letting season for the 2023/24 academic year are significantly up on a year...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The new Chancellor in the beleaguered Liz Truss government is former health and foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt - a buy to...
17 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Personal finance website Money has produced a league table of cities where landlords can enjoy strong returns from student tenants. Top comes...
03 October 2022
From: Breaking News
A 10 week consultation by Portsmouth council on proposals for new HMO licensing has finished with 1,050 responses. Licences are required for...
17 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Private rental properties are now “far safer” than before thanks to recent legislation, according to the charity Electrical Safety First. Since five-year...
24 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Legal & General’s Retirement Institutional division has announced a massive £2.5 billion investment to deliver as many as 7,000 Build To...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Police have imposed a Closure Order on a property in Southampton under Section 80 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime & Policing Act. The...
27 January 2022
From: Breaking News
The UK Build To Rent sector recorded a total of £2.1 billion of investment in the final three months of 2021...
10 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A new league table of investment potential has given a ringing endorsement to buy to let in cities. Select Property Group has...
12 October 2021
From: Breaking News
An online student accommodation platform has identified where demand from students is strongest as they prepare for the next academic year. UniHomes...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News
New figures released by Rightmove this morning show that 65 per cent of London locations now have lower rent levels than...
28 April 2021
From: Breaking News
A lettings platform specialising in student accommodation has a new way to spot locations with excess supply. UniHomes says Southampton, Portsmouth and...
10 March 2021
From: Breaking News
A council has prosecuted a local landlord for failing to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of his tenants. Eastleigh council took...
26 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let investments with a tenant already in situ are most in-demand across Glasgow, according to Howsy. The letting management platform reports that...
26 August 2020
From: Breaking News
A majority of tenants are looking for unfurnished homes, new research shows. Online property management platform Howsy analysed existing rental property listings...
04 August 2020
From: Breaking News
Demand for rental properties and the supply of rental stock have dropped significantly year-on-year across the majority of UK cities and...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News
A ninth person has tested positive for Coronavirus in the UK, the government has confirmed. The woman flew into London from China...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News
More than 800 landlords have been surveyed to establish where they feel offer the best buy-to-let investment opportunities in 2020. The study,...
27 January 2020
From: Breaking News
London remains one of the biggest property investment destinations in the world, attracting a wide range of national and international investors. But...
14 January 2020
From: Breaking News
An unscrupulous letting agent has been jailed for two years for conning landlords and tenants out of almost a quarter of...
19 December 2019
From: Breaking News
The worst served city for rental stock is Newport in Wales where just 13.5% of properties listed are to rent, according...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News
Zoopla’s UK Cities House Price Index for July 2019, which focuses on trends in housing affordability as measured by the ratio...
23 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Top-flight football returns this weekend, with Liverpool preparing for tonight’s Premier League opener versus Norwich City, but what team should landlords...
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Residential property prices are increasing faster in cities in the north of England and parts of Scotland than they are in...
30 July 2019
From: Breaking News
The slump in the UK home ownership rate from 73% a decade ago to just 63% today reflects the fact that...
04 April 2019
From: Breaking News
There has been a moderate rise in residential property price growth across the UK, according to the latest analysis carried out...
27 February 2019
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A number of buy-to-let landlords prefer to rent out property on a room by room basis instead of renting the whole...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News
One in three renters never intend to buy their own home, mainly because they are happy living in the private rented sector,...
13 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has purchased a Private Rented Sector (PRS) build-to-rent development on East Street, an...
10 May 2018
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A buy-to-let landlord has been given a suspended prison sentence, handed a 16-week curfew and ordered to pay more than £10,600...
15 February 2018
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The average two-year buy-to-let fixed mortgage deal at 75% loan-to-value (LTV) has fallen to a record-low of 2.47%, as many landlords...
30 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Liverpool, Nottingham and Cardiff are among the latest hotspots for buy-to-let investors looking for the best returns. The latest edition of Private...
26 January 2018
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Buy-to-let landlords can still expect to achieve double-digit yields when investing up north, fresh research shows. A new survey by TotallyMoney provides...
17 November 2017
From: Breaking News
dLighted, the insurance backed deposit-free renting solution, is once again trying to persuade more landlords and tenants to use its service...
27 October 2017
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Liverpool has been identified as the UK’s number one buy-to-let hotspot, with landlords who own property in the city achieving rental...
01 June 2017
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The first large-scale PRS development along the south coast is set to launch soon as part of the Bow Square scheme...
24 April 2017
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The Society of Mortgage Professionals (SMP) has announced that it will deliver a CPD event programme dedicated to buy-to-let following the...
28 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Student rents have increased by as much as 10% over the past 12 months amid a severe housing shortage across the...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News
The most lucrative university cities in the UK, based on house prices, rents and growth in local housing markets, have been...