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Detached homes in Wales are the slowest property types to sell across the UK and take an average of 92 days...

Only 2% of current properties listed for sale in London have a tenant in situ, according to lettings agency Benham and...

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

Homes Under The Hammer property expert Lucy Alexander is fronting a new campaign to identify empty homes and bring them back...

New analysis claims that the North East of England has made “no progress on greening the highest-emissions homes in 13 years.” Meanwhile,...

The chief executive of a short lets service says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is wrong to think penalising landlords will help solve...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...

Zoopla’s latest market snapshot, used as a guide to capital appreciation by some landlords, says there’s now a three-tier housing market...

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

The government has issued a lengthy statement claiming more home owners, including landlords, are fitting heat pumps - yet at the...

A comparison website claims that an improved rating for an Energy Performance Certificate now improves a property’s value. This is driven by...

Six in 10 landlords recorded increased tenant demand for their properties in the final quarter of 2023, Paragon Bank research has...

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

An analysis of homes that have returned to the market after failing to find a buyer in 2023 suggests that sellers...

The head of a major industry service supplier insists the Renters Reform Bill provision making it easier for tenants to keep...

The latest lettings market forecast from Savills says average UK rents to end 2023 at up 9.5 per cent year on...

Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...

Rents saw an autumn dip in October, following three months of rapidly escalating prices across England.  According to PropTech firm Goodlord the...

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

Thousands of landlords are planning to sell properties. A Simply Business survey of 1,455 UK landlords reveals that a quarter of landlords...

New research shows that 676,000 homes in England are sitting empty. The research comes from property purchasing firm House Buyer Bureau which...

The latest data release by comparison site GetAgent shows the average sale price over the past six months has been 97.3...

A new survey has revealed the regional breakdown of EPC ratings in residential properties.   Region Number of Lodgements (homes) Percentage of properties (D - G...

The latest government figures on the private rental sector show rents rose 5.5 per cent in the 12 months to August,...

New data from Zoopla this morning makes grim reading for landlords, especially those reliant on capital appreciation and with investment properties...

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

July was a record breaking month for the rental market, claims a PropTech company. Goodlord analyses tens of thousands of completed tenancies...

The number of voids has dropped by 44 per cent in the past month to hit an average of just nine...

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

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

A long-standing and respected property firm has slammed the government for presiding over the “mess” of taxes applied to holiday lets...

The cost of rent rose in seven of the eight regions monitored by Goodlord during June.  The average cost of rent per...

Auctions have long been a favourite way for buy to let and other investors to bag a property bargain. And now it...

New data from the Office for National Statistics, based on the 2021 Census results, show growth in the number of holiday...

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

The price of holiday lets in South West London have skyrocketed by 30 per cent due to surging demand from visitors...

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

Owner-occupiers aged 65-plus hold a record estimated £2.587 trillion of net housing wealth - and their homes are worth a total...

Specialist buy to let lender Fleet Mortgages says there’s been both an annual and quarterly increase in rental yields, up from...

Both the Generation Rent activist group and London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan have issued a joint attack on private rental sector...

After a hectic period of rent rises it appears that the lettings market is at a standstill according to PropTech firm...

A senior financial analyst says “runaway rents” are destroying the financial resilience of tenants. Sarah Coles, head of personal finance at business...

New buy to let purchases are increasingly being funded by cash rather than a mortgage, says Hamptons lettings agency.   So far this...

As many as one in 10 homes have a reduced asking price within a month of entering the market, a new...

The rental market is firing on all cylinders again according to the latest market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord. It says void...

Landlords expanding portfolios through cash purchases are securing discounts as high as £88,000 in cooling market conditions says a buying firm. House...

Landlords with funds to expand their portfolios may be in luck - a growing proportion of properties on sale have reduced...

A debt advisory service claims it has calculated the overall size of the private rental sector. Sirius Property Finance analysed the current...

An unlikely location heads the latest league table purporting to show the highest returns on property investment. Aldermore’s Buy To let City...

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

The rental market remained relatively steady in recent weeks, according to the latest index from PropTech firm Goodlord. Void periods have remained...

The latest rental market index from Goodlord shows rents down over the past month, with voids inching up.  All seven English regions...

The leader of the Generation Rent activist group says that the shortage of homes to rent means no private sector tenant...

A mortgage broker claims to have drawn up a regional league table of locations where buy to let properties attract a...

The intense heat felt across the lettings market over recent months appears to have cooled a little according to the latest...

England’s private rental is forecast to top five million households within the next two years or so. The specialist rental platform Ocasa...

When accounting for inflation, renters are better off today than they were a year ago despite nominal rent increases of up...

September saw the highest average rental costs ever recorded by Goodlord, according to the PropTech firm’s latest index.  With the previous record...

There’s been a slowdown in the annual growth rate of house prices - a movement described as “modest” by the Nationwide. The...

House prices in the UK rose by 0.4 per cent in August, against a 0.1 per cent drop in July, according...

New build homes are often at the forefront of market downturns and new data suggests new builds are already seeing price...

Landlord numbers may have dropped in recent months but a longer term analysis shows the reverse. Total Landlord Insurance analysed the current...

The average cost of rent across England dipped one per cent during August, taking prices down to a national average of...

New data from Zoopla suggests that growing concern about the cost of living crisis and in particular rising interest rates may...

House prices fell marginally by 0.1 per cent in July – the first decrease since June 2021, says the Halifax. Annual rate...

Voids hit what has been described as an historic low in recent weeks, according to PropTech firm Goodlord. It says the average...

Landlords are still enjoying substantial capital appreciation - but the latest Zoopla house price index reveals the lowest rate of monthly...

Rents rose by an average of 2.8 per cent during June, taking the average cost of a rental property in England...

Annual house price growth slowed slightly last month, dipping to 10.7 in June from 11.2 per cent in May, according to...

New research suggests that a like-for-like comparison shows short lets earning 21 per cent more than the same home let out...

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

An online rental platform suggests almost a third of rental homes may be deemed unaffordable. Ocasa, using Office for National Statistics data,...

The highest rental growth since the Global Financial Crisis, coupled with the cost of living crisis, is putting increased pressure on...

The cost of a newly let home rose 9.8 per cent over the last 12 months to £1,125 pcm, marking the...

The average rent in the UK has hit another record high of £1,091 after a 1.2 per cent increase in the...

The latest attack on landlords by Generation Rent director Baroness Alicia Kennedy concerns insulation and household warmth. She claims a quarter of...

A new league table of capital values in seaside locations shows the affordability challenge of investing in areas with guaranteed holiday...

A rental platform forecasts that within 12 months the average UK tenant could be paying £800 more a year in rent...

The proportion of landlords reporting increasing tenant demand has hit an all-time high of 62 per cent. Research undertaken on behalf of...

Capital appreciation for landlords has seen another surge according to the latest house price index, just released by the Halifax. It shows...

There’s been a big rise in rents in the past month according to PropTech supplier Goodlord. They are now at their highest...

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

The great imbalance between tenant demand and available stock continues, according to the latest market snapshot from the letting agencies’ trade...

For investors who keep their buy to lets for substantial periods - up to 25 years in some cases - a...

Rental affordability is deteriorating in parts of England. The research by rental platform Rentd looked at the current average income of a...

A Labour MP in the westcountry appears to be winning support for a campaign he has launched called First Homes, Not...

Buy-to-let lending hit its highest ever level last year, spurred on by record levels of tenant demand, the Stamp Duty Holiday...

Capital appreciation for landlords is running at an average double-digit strength in seven regions of the UK according to the Halifax. Its...

New build homes command rental premiums of as high as 41 per cent in the current market, it’s been claimed. The Unlatch...

Renters are finding it tough to locate a new home because of the continuing shortage of supply according to the National...

The number of private rental homes has increased by 18,610 in the last five years - defying those suggesting an exodus...

It’s a familiar story from PropTech supplier Goodlord as it releases its latest rental market snapshot - a lack of stock...

A London council chief is asking for help from private landlords.  The leader of Kingston council in the south west of the...

A lettings agency says renters must pay an average of up to 77 per cent of their monthly household income to...

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

Rents are rising at around twice the level of a year ago according to the latest market snapshot by lettings agency...

Landlords adopting a strategy of buying cheap in search of high yields are having a tougher task in finding the right...

Landlords fearing a fall in income and a rise in voids over the festive period have nothing to fear - it...

One of the major lettings market indices has produced figures showing how much rents rose in 2021. HomeLet says the average rent...

The year is ending with void periods dropping across England as demand for rental properties continues apace.  According to the latest Goodlord...