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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...

Rental growth in Britain has slowed says lettings agency Hamptons, with the average newly let rent rising 6.7% over the past...

Houses in Multiple Occupation are making up an increasing percentage of buy-to-let business, according specialist lender Shawbrook.  In both 2022 and 2023,...

West One Loans has launched a new product range, called W3, containing a 6.84% five-year fix with a 4.99% fee and...

Landlords and renters’ activists are at either end of the spectrum reacting to a controversial report on the private rental sector. Yesterday...

UK house prices grew in March on a quarterly basis, by 2.0%, with annual growth slowing to 0.3%, from 1.6% in...

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

The abolition of Section 21 evictions will be a disaster without improvement to the courts system, a property industry chief insists.  Ian...

Co-living developments are a type of purpose-built rental housing, under the same principle as Build To Rent (BTR) but offering smaller size...

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

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...

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

Seasonality is returning to the prime London lettings market after three tumultuous years.  The pandemic meant the market was initially flooded with...

Newly released data by flatshare website SpareRoom reveals average rental prices in Greater London have seen a drop. Average rental prices in...

Towns within commuting distance of big cities have seen some of the UK’s largest rent rises in recent years, says Zoopla. The...

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

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

A landlord has quit the private rental sector after a battle with his council over why his properties were put into...

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

Average rents on newly let properties across Britain rose 8.3 per cent year-on-year in January, the slowest pace for 13 months...

Two thirds of landlords say the demand for private rented housing is continuing to increase, according to new research commissioned by...

Data from lenders trade body UK Finance show an 18 per cent leap in buy to let arrears in the past...

The Housing Ombudsman has ordered Yorkshire Housing to pay £3,780 after it found three findings of severe maladministration for how it...

One might immediately answer 'no' to this question, but does the HMO property industry possess adequate understanding of this delicate subject...

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

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

If you're thinking of investing in a holiday home this year, there can be a lot to consider. From gathering insight to...

Landlords considering selling up have received guidance from Rightmove on when to do it and how. The portal claims February is the...

Two new reports - from lettings agency Foxtons and data consultancy LonRes - show London’s rental market returning to pre-pandemic normality. Foxtons...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

The yo-yo economic news is now casting doubt on whether the Bank of England will cut base rate as quickly as...

UK landlords are doubling down on urban flats amidst a slow but definite return to conventional office working. Data from Shawbrook Bank...

The latest HomeLet rental index begins 2024 with a glimmer of hope for tenants as rents have fallen for the second...

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

Landlords have long been a backbone of the auction industry but one player in the sector says the future is online...

The Treasury has announced March 6 as the date for the Spring Budget and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has commissioned the Office...

Escalating rents have led many first time buyers to adjust their property expectations and accept smaller homes when they purchase, a...

There’s no prospect of a rapid recovery for the housing market in 2024 despite some green shoots appearing. The warning comes from...

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

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

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

Landlords providing much-needed private rented accommodation in part of Merseyside are to fall under an expanded  licensing regime.  Wirral councillors have voted...

Rightmove is building the hype ahead of its much-vaunted Boxing Day listing of new properties to the market. The portal claims that...

London’s ultra-prime rental market has returned this year to pre-Covid levels for the first time, an agency claims. Beauchamp Estates - using...

UK house prices rose an average of 0.2 per cent month on month in November - prompting the Nationwide to call...

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

House prices fell 1.2 per cent in the past year, according to a new Zoopla report out today, with average discounts...

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

A prominent estate agency says there’s a stronger case for a stamp duty cut now than there was during the pandemic. Knight...

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

A new survey suggests that over three fifths of landlords say private renting is becoming less attractive as an investment option. The...

HMRC has produced this material for landlords concerned at the prospect of self-assessment  - What is Self Assessment and why do I need...

October saw a surprise 0.9 per cent rise in UK house prices according to the Nationwide, after taking account of seasonal...

The average asking price across the UK based on the available stock is now £1,829 per month according to property consultancy...

Next month Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, will be one of the experts at an Agent...

The prime London market appears to be seeing a slow return to stability - but average rental growth in the past...

Rental growth in prime regional markets has started to slow, following runaway growth over the past three years. That’s the view from...

The UK housing market is remaining “more resilient than expected” despite the latest price index showing another small fall. The Halifax say...

This is back-to-school season and for the majority of university students who choose to move away from their family home during...

A landlord who let tenants live in properties riddled with hazardous electrics, unsafe boilers, mould and no smoke alarms must pay...

The property industry in recent years has been tough to work in.  Clearly the challenges we faced with the pandemic, lockdown and...

A prominent analyst says her reading of the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market snapshot makes her believe more house...

Rental value growth in prime London postcodes declined further in August as supply built and demand cooled.  That’s the view of high...

House prices fell 1.9 per cent in August and are down 4.6 per cent over the year, according to Halifax.  It’s the...

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

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

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

While there has been a shortage of all types of rental accommodation across the UK for several years now, the student...

By Richard O’Neill, managing director, lettings at Romans Estate Agents As a landlord, your property’s yield is an important figure. It indicates...

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

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

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

A group of local authorities is asking the government to give individual councils the cash to buy properties off private landlords. London...

Landlords are often seen as stalwarts of property auctions, and are attributed with helping the sector’s growth over the past decade. Property...

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

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

A prominent lawyer says the use of Section 8 eviction powers as envisaged under the Renters Reform Bill could lead to...

Rightmove has this morning revealed that 16 per cent of properties currently for sale were previously available on the rental market,...

Activist group Generation Rent - which has demanded rent freezes, eviction bans and cash hand-outs to help tenants move now wants...

If you are a landlord looking for the silver lining in a dark cloud, June’s interest rate decision will have certainly...

Arrears in the buy to let sector are worsening at a faster rate than for homeowners. Octane Capital analysed industry figures on...

Across prime London, annual rental growth in June was 8.0 per cent according to data consultancy LonRes.   This takes rents to almost...

Savills’ latest market snapshot for prime properties in the UK regions suggest that tenant priorities are gently shifting. Across UK prime regional...

Recent years have seen a surge in the holiday lettings sector with the popularity of digital platforms like Air BnB.  It...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

A council has given an insight into its past five years of enforcement actions against private landlords. The Labour council in Newham,...

A Labour Mayor whose post was abolished by a public vote last year now wants to become an MP. Marvin Rees’ position...

A pressure group is calling on the government to introduce in-tenancy restrictions on how much rents can be raised, and claims...

One of London’s most aggressive landlord licensing regimes says it has an early-bird offer running until July 14. Landlords applying for Newham...

If this was typical of the past 10 years we would be talking of a 0.6 per cent average house price...

One in five first-time buyers taking out mortgages lasting over 35 years A record 19 per cent of first-time buyers took out...

The Generation Rent activist group claims holiday homes are eroding the supply of available properties in key tourist areas.  It claims 80...

The Labour Mayor of Newham in London has called for a vast extension of landlord licensing. Rokhsana Fiaz says she welcomes a...

Average house prices edged down in May according to the Nationwide - and it gives a warning of possibly worse to...

Landlords whose residential properties became workplaces during the pandemic are unlikely to see any major change in the situation soon. That’s because...

Landlords relying on capital appreciation have good news this morning - there’s been a significant and unexpected leap in house asking...

A charity claims that landlords across England and Wales are seeking to evict tenants using Section 21 powers at a higher...

I have read a great deal in the media recently about a mass landlord ‘exodus’. The story goes along the lines of...

Most landlords are no better off now, even after substantial rent increases over recent years.  Rightmove recently reported that national average asking...

The National Residential Landlords Association is hosting a housing roundtable, inviting industry experts -  including Paul Shamplina - to discuss the...