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Nick Woodward, director of lettings at Essential Living, gives insights into why renting may be the best option for many. 1. Responsibility...

The average house prices in England was £290,000 last year, some 8.3 times average annual earnings. This was actually down from 8.5...

Activist group Generation Rent has described the latest homelessness data from the government as showing “a whole new level of horror.” It...

Deciding on a residence in the bustling city of London is no small feat, especially when faced with the dichotomy of...

Landlords are selling up in significant volumes these days - partly to cash in on capital appreciation, but mostly thanks to...

The Office for Budget Responsibility - a Treasury department operating independently from the government - released its central forecast for the...

Research by Quickmove Properties estimate that, despite changes to stamp duty thresholds implemented last September designed to save homebuyers money, the...

Sweeping tax changes for landlords have been demanded by letting agents group Propertymark. The group has analysed the impact of changes using...

Scores of portfolio landlords are incorporating their property portfolio as limited companies, which could save hundreds of thousands of pounds on...

Tax expert David Hannah claims that the government's 12 new high-growth investment zones have already begun to drive property prices in...

Landlord Today receives a number of unsolicited contributions from readers. These are always welcome but few are as well argued and...

A controversial new report demands that the government uses next month’s Budget to sharply increase tax burdens for landlords. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s...

I think 2022 can be summarised as ‘unsettling’ to say the least. With three prime ministers in less than six months,...

Although the property and mortgage markets have been in a state of flux for the past few months, with rising interest...

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

New research from the bank Handelsbanken suggests some landlords will reduce their portfolios if economic conditions worsen. Almost 60 per cent of...

If you are involved in property, it is important for tax purposes to be aware if your activities will be classed...

A range of mortgage brokers are reporting an increase in enquiries from private tenants who have been given first refusal to...

Amateur landlords have fallen out of favour. Buy-to-let properties – once the darling of budding investors looking for stable, long-term returns...

More SME landlords are seeking advice about whether now is the right time to incorporate, before progressing plans to secure more...

Landlords in London contributed to an extraordinary £440m in stamp duty paid on purchases in the first six months since the...

A little-known law unearthed by a lettings agency may be bad news because it means some private renters are likely to...

The many thousands of landlords who have snapped up properties have been advised to be on alert - a tax consultancy...

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

Trade unions have joined the call for renters with Covid-related arrears to get cash help from the government - but they...

The changes to Mortgage Interest Tax Relief and impact on your wallet Before April 2017 landlords with a mortgage on their buy-to-let...

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

There has never been a harder time to be a landlord in the UK. The pressures that the last six months...

There appears to have been an increase in demand for buy-to-let property since the chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday, but...

It’s no secret that the war on landlords has escalated heavily since 2016 and as we find ourselves in a new...

Cuts to tax relief and other rule changes are driving out smaller landlords, the latest figures show.   Official HMRC data reveals the...

They may be part of the Union, but the process of buying and selling property in Scotland and England differs markedly.  It’s...

When it comes to buying, selling, letting or renting a property, you will likely be faced with words, phrases, acronyms and...

Many young people would find it significantly harder to get a foot on the housing ladder, leaving many effectively renting for...

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

The Chancellor Philip Hammond may have only announced last week that the Autumn Budget will take place on Monday 29 October,...

The buy-to-let market is expected to remain subdued for the next three years mired by tax changes and tougher mortgage lending...

An online petition calling for buy-to-let tax relief changes to be reversed has received almost 16,500 signatures. Buy-to-let landlord and property investment...

The government has responded to a petition calling on the reintroduction of full mortgage interest relief and the scrapping of the...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has submitted recommendations to HM Treasury ahead of Autumn Budget Statement, due to be delivered on...

Very few of us enjoy filling in a tax return. But here are a few suggestions put forward by London based...

The vast majority of Britons, including many renters who could soon find their rents rising as landlords look to recoup their...

Almost 40% of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) raised in the third quarter of the year came from property transactions which...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC) has called for the government to abolish stamp duty to create a more “buoyant and...

April provided the government with the highest Stamp Duty Land Tax (‘SDLT’) revenue ever recorded for a single month, according to...

The recent increase in stamp duty land tax (“SDLT”) on “additional residential dwellings” represents the latest in a series of measures...

Peer-to-peer lender LendInvest has examined the financial impact on landlords – and their tenants – of the additional 3% Stamp Duty...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is warning private investors not to be lured by firms offering schemes which allegedly promise to...

Accountants KPMG has warned that the upward trend in buy-to-let may reverse in 2016 due to the tax changes being introduced...

A critic of the suggestion that buy-to-let landlords could set up companies to ‘beat’ the ending of tax breaks has renewed...