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Spain’s Minister for Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, says the country is taking the first steps to eliminate the Golden Visa.  This visa was...

The Labour-led government in Wales has issued a consultation proposing the abolition of Land Transaction Tax Multiple Dwelling Relief from June...

Estate agency data shows that the average time it takes for a landlord other vendor to sell a house has dropped...

The head of lettings agency Benham and Reeves has made an outspoken attack on stamp duty. The agency analysed data from the...

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

Landlords who paid Capital Gains Tax at 28% - before the Chancellor reduced it to 24% in this month’s Budget -...

A think tank is urging the UK government to consider tax perks for private renters to help them save faster for...

The average price of property coming to the market for sale rises by 1.5% (+£5,279) this month to £368,118, as the...

An activist group is demanding that the lower Capital Gains Tax should apply only to landlords who sell with sitting tenants. In...

In what may appear a surprise to almost everyone, the Generation Rent activist group has described yesterday’s Budget as a “giveaway...

The National Residential Landlords Association has slammed yesterday’s lacklustre Budget as a missed opportunity. Yesterday’s announcements - like to be the last...

One piece of good news to come out of the small print documents accompanying the Budget concerns capital appreciation. The Office for...

UK house prices rose by 0.7 per cent in February, says the Nationwide, after taking account of seasonal effects.  This resulted in...

A property firm which has analysed transactions across the UK suggests the market is, at last, ‘back to normal’ in almost...

Rental sector and property industry views are split over the controversial idea of allowing first time buyers to put down a...

Although SDLT receipts have been volatile in recent years, the property tax’s effectiveness as a revenue-raiser for the Government is not...

The average price of a home in Wales fell to £234,086 at the end 2023 following continued economic and financial pressures,...

A respected league table of yields in different parts of England and Wales has issued its latest figures. The Fleet Mortgages Buy-to-Let...

Another house price index has indicated a gentle rise in capital appreciation coming through at the end of 2023. Richard Sexton, director...

New data from HM Revenue and Customs reveals a 22 per cent annual drop in residential transactions in the year to...

UK house prices ended 2023 down 1.8 per cent compared with December 2022, leaving them almost 4.5 per cent below the...

A major property industry supplier claims that the housing sector could meet government targets to improve the Energy Performance Certificate ratings for homes.  Landmark...

In an analysis of one of the largest data sets in the industry (consisting of buyers from 195 countries and 900,000...

The Nationwide says 2023 has seen a surprisingly-resilient housing market but there will be no full scale recovery in 2024 -...

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

Landlords will have to include many more specific points about their properties when they list them in future - whether directly...

In the ever-evolving landscape of property investments, one strategy continues to stand the test of time and prove its worth: property...

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

A panel of experts forecast house prices will fall as much as 10 per cent by Autumn 2024. Financial website Finder brought...

Savills is warning that the average UK house price is projected to fall by a further 3.0 per cent in 2024...

Zoopla says a buy to let property sold off by a landlord is “typically priced 25 per cent lower than the...

August saw a further softening in house prices which are now 5.3 per cent down on a year ago. The Nationwide says...

There’s bad news for landlords relying on capital appreciation or hoping to sell up in the near future. Rightmove reports that new...

Landlords pulling out of buy to let because of high costs and overbearing regulation now have a guide to how quickly...

The challenges facing the property market right now are well reported; from rising interest rates pushing up mortgage payments to a...

House prices have fallen an average of 3.8 per cent across the UK in the past year according to the Nationwide. This...

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

New data shows the slump in transactions across the UK - and may trigger opportunities for aggressive investors seeking to take...

Landlords who may be in the market for buying or selling this year are being warned about a dramatic 54 per...

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

House prices were largely unchanged in May, edging down by just £130 compared to April - but on an annual basis...

The launch of a new landlord database, proposed by the Renters Reform Bill, could provide HMRC with a gold mine of...

HMRC says UK residential transactions in March totalled 89,560 - that’s a chunky 19 per cent lower than the same month a...

Experts are forecasting that London rental prices are predicted to grow by 3% this year alone, while prices may increase by...

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...

The Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors’ latest Residential Market Survey made for gloomy reading for many in the property market –...

Private rental property should be “acquired” and used for social housing according to a think tank. And it says tax penalties, laws...

House prices rose by 9.8 per cent year-on-year in December compared with the same month in 2021, the Office for National...

A top Tory who is chair of the Conservative backbench Treasury Committee and a member of the Treasury Select Committee says...

Prime Central London’s ultra-prime housing market for multi-millionaire and billionaire buyers has risen by 30 per cent according to a prominent...

Yes, it’s that time again when the property hoi polloi impose their predictions for the following year on us and so,...

Figures from across the private rental sector have written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt...

A breakdown of essential and non-essential spending by individuals, devised by the Nationwide, reveals the extra amount that tenants are paying...

A properly industry leader is calling on government to cut taxes for landlords who agree to long term tenancies and rent...

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

Mortgage activity is forecast to fall by six per cent by year-end as the market feels the brunt of interest rate...

Who are you? My name is Jason Harris-Cohen and I am the Managing Director of Open Property Group. What is your company and...

Capital values in Prime Central London have increased according to the latest market snapshot from investment service London Central Portfolio. House have...

A new analysis of household energy consumption has found that a combination of green technologies could reduce bills by up to...

The government's ban on charging ground rent on leases in England and Wales comes into force today.  Only a peppercorn ground rent...

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

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

Landlords have enjoyed more capital appreciation with the average UK house price rising again in April, up by 1.1 per cent...

It looks as if landlords have enjoyed further capital appreciation with the latest housing market index showing still-rising asking prices for...

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

Bromsgrove is a classic rental market. The Worcestershire market town is enveloped by green space but is just a thirty-minute commute...

A leading accountancy firm says the relative good health of the rental market and house price appreciation will trigger stricter enforcement...

Paragon Bank increased buy to let lending to landlords by 33.9 per cent to £1.61 billion in its last financial year,...

Many agencies give their forecasts for the following year or years in the late autumn, but one of the most detailed...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget has made one small but welcome change to Capital Gains Tax.  For those selling UK residential property, including...

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

High end lettings agency Strutt & Parker says the outlook for Prime Central London is improving slightly with more activity reported...

Landlords have frequently not had obligatory ID checks conducted on them by letting agents, an industry supplier is claiming.  Blinc UK says...

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

A survey of 20,000 landlords by a comparison website suggests 53 per cent are uncertain if they want to remain in buy to...

The spring market in Florida is white-hot at the moment, rivalling the increasing temperatures across the state as people begin their...

Landlords trying to expand their portfolios can avoid delays caused by residential buyers taking advantage of the Chancellor's stamp duty extension by using four 'buy-to-let hacks', according to broker Mortgages for...

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

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m David Hackett, Head of Business Development for The DPS    What...

Specialist buy to let broker Mortgages for Business says landlords buying now can use four tips to beat the chaos in the...

A record pipeline has been reported by one of the leading buy to let mortgage lenders as landlords race to beat...

There’s a warning today that landlords need to move quickly and selectively if they are intending to purchase a property ahead...

There’s been a howl of disgust from the UK’s major landlord group following the Welsh Government’s shock increase in stamp duty. Landlord...

A PropTech company claims to have created a Covid-friendly app for landlords in London, challenging traditional agents’ models for finding tenants. Rentd, which...

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

Summer 2020 saw changes to the 30-day Capital Gains Tax (CGT) rule come into force and talk of a CGT increase...

A rental sector management firm is asking whether possible upcoming tax probes by HMRC may spell the end of the short-let...

A letting agent in Nottinghamshire stole close to £30,000 from several landlord clients and tenants to help prevent his business from...

The government has published its response to the House of Commons, Communities and Local Government Select Committee’s (HCLG) report on cladding...

There has been a drop in buy-to-let lending, but the decline is less dramatic than the general purchase market, according to the latest...

There has been a sharp rise in mortgage approvals, as reported by the Bank of England yesterday.  The latest data reveals that...

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests that the housing market continued to recover at the tail...

The number of residential property sales agreed have surged in the month since the chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday, with...

No longer just a domain for investors, developers, and property dealers, the auction room is now the preferred option of buying...

Who are you? David Alexander What does it say on your business card? Joint Manager Director What is apropos? Apropos is a revolutionary...

The super prime property market in London has suffered amid the coronavirus pandemic, new research shows.  In times of crisis, the prime...

Property trade associations, professional bodies and other parties have joined forces to call for urgent government action to help support the...

Property transactions unsurprisingly slumped in April amid the lockdown restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak. The latest HMRC...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jason Berry – Group Sales Director What is ‘company name’ and...

A new digital property management platform from Apropos by DJ Alexander, which covers almost half of the UK, including Edinburgh, Manchester,...