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Renters are typically staying in their properties for a third longer than they did four years ago, says the Deposit Protection...

New data sourced from millions of Barclays current accounts reveals growing stability in UK housing costs, which saw their lowest uplift...

The Government quietly announced population projections towards the end of January that could have major implications for the types of homes...

Confidence has returned to the mortgage market, with sentiment improving steadily month by month in the last quarter of 2023, according...

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

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

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

Analysts have warned landlords and others interested in the housing market from celebrating too much following the latest Halifax index figures. The...

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

Consumer Price Inflation in November was 3.9 per cent - significantly lower than the 4.4 per cent expected by many analysts. It’s...

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

Campaigning charity Shelter is nearing a controversial signature threshold in its petition about the Renters Reform Bill. It now has over 123,000 of...

It’s not just the weather that’s wet and dreary – the outlook looks bleak for landlords too as we head towards...

The asking price of homes coming to the market this month is down 1.7 per cent on October according to Rightmove.  The...

Scotland’s Court of Session has come down in favour of the Scottish Government when it comes to rent controls. A case against...

Average house prices are now falling 2.9 per cent annually in England and Wales according to the monthly e.surv index. Yorkshire and...

A leading lettings industry figure says politicians should have the repeal of Section 24 as a major priority. Section 24 removes a...

The Generation Rent campaign has launched a petition on its website to give councils power to license holiday lets.  The campaign claims...

Authoritative new research suggests that there’s been a 91,000 rise in student numbers to 2.3m - yet in major student cities...

Landlords and brokers are up in arms about alleged profiteering by buy to let mortgage lenders’ arrangement fees. These jumped last autumn...

New figures from London-focussed agency Foxtons show applicant demand up 19 per cent in June, as the capital enters the peak...

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

A property law specialist wants a national register of tenants to allow landlords to check their history before rental agreements are...

A normally-ebullient auction company has admitted to a big slump in the number of bidders at its latest sale. Auction House’s May...

A sports team has made the unusual move of issuing a direct appeal to private landlords to help it find accommodation...

A new petition has been launched on the UK Parliament website to reverse the move towards Periodic Tenancies contained in the...

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

The Section 24 parliamentary petition, seeking to persuade MPs to reinstate mortgage interest tax relief for landlords, has fallen far short...

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

A prominent estate agency says landlords and other property owners considering selling this spring must be realistic about asking prices. Savills -...

The Section 24 parliamentary petition, seeking to persuade MPs to reinstate mortgage interest tax relief for landlords, is still struggling for...

The Nationwide says March saw a further decline in house prices - they are down 3.1 per cent compared with the...

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

The Scottish Government, despite being in the middle of electing a new First Minister, is pressing ahead with legislation for long-term...

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into the workings of the private rental sector. It says the focus...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

A letting agents’ trade group is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...

A perfect storm is brewing in the lettings market with rents spiralling driven by increasing demand fuelled by workers returning to...

New figures from London-focussed letting agency Foxtons show rental demand remaining very strong. Last month’s figures show that compared to January 2020,...

Every year, those thinking about investing in property for the first time and even current landlords ask themselves whether it’s the...

The Generation Rent group of activists is promoting a petition calling for private landlords to pay damages to tenants in some...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has poured cold water on the prospect of any tax cuts in the near future -...

Average asking rents for new tenants outside London have risen to another new record of £1,172 per calendar month says Rightmove. This...

The government may already have dismissed it, but the petition wanting landlords to be able to offset mortgage interest against tax...

A nine-page legal document outlining landlords’ arguments has effectively stopped a controversial housing minister and campaigning organisations giving evidence to a...

A coalition of landlords and lettings groups has submitted a Petition to the Court of Session in Edinburgh seeking a Judicial...

A petition signed by well over 28,000 and calling for the reversal of tax measures introduced to penalise landlords has been...

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

The petition to secure government action over the Section 24 tax issue affecting landlords has passed the 16,500 benchmark but has...

A petition calling on the government to reverse the section 24 tax change has passed a key threshold - but still has...

Landlords are being encouraged to sign a petition calling on the government to reverse the section 28 tax change which had...

Foxtons says London’s market is finally cooling - at least a little - for the Christmas period. November followed the seasonal downward...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

Activist group Generation Rent has started a petition calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to freeze private rents this winter. As part...

Rents are still rising rapidly across Prime London, hitting a new record high, as the shortage of property available to rent...

The Competition and Markets Authority has raised concern about a Build To Rent deal which it believes could result in reduced...

Figures from London-focussed agency Foxtons suggest that rentals have reaching the highest ever weekly price in the capital. The average in September...

The winners have been revealed in a nationwide search for the UK and Ireland’s best holiday lets. The awards, which were organised...

New figures from London agency Foxtons highlight the continuing imbalance between supply and demand across the capital. It says rents were up...

Over 5,000 leaseholders – some of them private landlords – could get refunds on their ground rent after the Competition and...

A major lettings agency in London says the imbalance between the number of tenants and available rental properties continues to cause...

New research from an online buy to let mortgage broker shows that average rates for some typical deals favoured by landlords...

The UK government’s ban on the sale of new combustion cars from 2030 is fuelling a surge in Electric Vehicle adoption....

Generation Rent is promoting another rent freeze campaign. In a short series of tweets, and in relation to the predicted energy price...

The Commonwealth Games, which begin today in Birmingham, could turbo-charge capital appreciation in the city by up to 15 per cent. That’s the...

Labour wants to bring in a UK-wide licensing system for holiday lets to preserve the “spirit” of costal and rural communities. The...

Average asking rents outside London have hit another new record of £1,126 per calendar month according to Rightmove. This figure, for the...

Lack of rental stock is now the biggest challenge facing letting agents today. That is what every agent I’ve spoken to...

Properties are still in high demand say auctioneers at Auction House London with no drop in the number of lots selling...

New data from Rightmove suggests that rental demand is cooling in some areas where the market was busiest during the pandemic. And...

Landlords renting out to holidaymakers could be in with a chance of winning £10,000 as part of a nationwide search for...

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

Activists from pressure groups and London-focussed tenants’ bodies have handed in a letter to 10 Downing Street asking the Prime Minister...

PropTech firm Canopy says four out of five tenants have never missed a rent payment and that this should give them...

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

The government has announced that its ban on charging ground rent on new leases in England and Wales comes into force...

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

Annual rental growth in prime London reached 11.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year, following a 3.4 increase...

Even before the pandemic, we were seeing dramatic changes across the buy-to-let landscape with holiday lets steadily increasing in appeal –...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

Fifteen businesses which had bought freeh­olds from housing developer Countryside have now given formal undertakings to remove terms that cause ground...

As we approach what is commonly the busiest month of the year, there is one question many in the sector many...

A prominent property website, which monitors the lettings market, suggests that rent controls would drive a proportion of rental stock to...

Airbnb entered the realm of holiday lettings in 2009, but it wasn’t until 2016 that it really started to gain traction...

Landlords are being insulated from the worst effects of interest rate rises because lenders are so keen to win and keep...

A prominent country property expert has issued an urgent appeal to rural landlords to become involved in the consultation process which...

Landlords are targeting semi-detached homes over terraced houses for the first time, but with limited stock availability and strong competition from...

Property insurers have forced “crippling costs” on to residents of medium and high-rise apartment blocks in the aftermath of the Grenfell...

Last month, I wrote about what’s in store for the private rented sector in 2022 and, like most commentators in our...

Newly published rental yield from Rightmove reveals that the average yield across Great Britain is 5.5 per cent. This is the highest...

Yesterday Landlord Today reported that there was now a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage...

Landlords are being warned that the next Bank of England base rate rise, possibly at its next meeting in early February,...

Some 6,000 signatures have so far been added to an online petition calling on the Welsh Parliament to “address” the issue...

Something that has been touching a raw nerve with me for some time now is the issue of so called ‘rent...

The relationship between the overwhelming number of good landlords and local authorities tends to be limited or possibly non-existent. With the far...

There are a huge array of products and services covering the entire journey of lettings, from prospecting all the way through to...

New data from Rightmove reveals the effect the staycation boom is having on the rental market across Britain. Seaside towns and other...

Zoopla says rental properties are typically letting almost a week faster than a year ago. It claims that with supply and demand...

A new league table has been prepared showing the average costs of listings on Airbnb - and London features outside the...

A petition urging rent caps for private tenants and hefty tax rises for second home owners is now nearing its 50,000...