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Congratulations on taking the leap into becoming a landlord! Property investing offers numerous benefits, from generating passive income to building long-term...

National Landlord Investment Show has announced that the former Leader of the Conservative Party, the Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith,...

A controversial wealth management company claims that almost two thirds of private tenants have suffered a deterioration in their mental and...

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

Landlords can benefit from a wealth of free training, courtesy of a north of England council. Cumberland council is providing the training...

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

Slowing inflation may - just may - lead the way for reduced interest rates. The headline inflation rate is now just 3.4%,...

A London council has successfully prosecuted two landlords who failed to comply with a planning enforcement notice originally issued against substandard...

Millennials, long seen as a financially disadvantaged generation, are on the brink of becoming the wealthiest generation in history thanks to...

Some 69 per cent of landlords have already or are planning to increase the size of their property portfolio, increasing to...

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

Two new forums to forge closer bonds between council and landlords in North Yorkshire are to take place in the coming...

Calling all landlords, Investors and property professionals: National Landlord Investment Show returns to Olympia London on 6th March for its first...

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

A wealthy landlord, who also ran a fake lettings agency, has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

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

According to a London property management company, the profile of renters in prime London is varying hugely.  Glenfield Property Management says that...

Many households are struggling with rising costs, while renters in particular continue to struggle with low quality housing, the Resolution Foundation...

After the Autumn Statement unveiled a major tax cut for January, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’ll pay less tax in...

Britain’s top 100,000 taxpayers footed an average income and capital gains tax bill of £559,000 each in 2021/22. That’s up by 18...

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

Property investment is a dynamic and diverse field, offering numerous opportunities for investors to grow their wealth. At Mortgage Scout, we...

The government should tax property ‘hoarders’ cashing in on the UK housing market says a left-leaning think tank. A report by the New Economics...

As we all now know, the Government has acknowledged that the ban on Section 21 eviction notices cannot not come into...

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

A major council has declared a Housing Emergency for its city, attributing part of the problem to rising private rents. A statement...

Middleton Advisors commissions ongoing research to investigate key trends and structural changes in prime UK housing markets.  Our latest research considers the...

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out any increase in Capital Gains Tax if Labour wins power. She also says there will...

A wealth management organisation has raised the spectre that some families may end up overpaying inheritance tax. And with property wealth being...

Landlords will be able to let Housing Secretary Michael Gove know exactly what they think of his policies in October. Gove will...

Buy-to-let landlords with property assets held in a company could be taking advantage of the current dip in house prices to...

A prominent buying agent operating at the high end of the prime London market has given an interesting insight into how...

Property investment dates back centuries – millennia, even. As a fundamental necessity for post-nomadic humanity, residential and commercial real estate have...

An outspoken agent says he is seeing growing numbers of people renting in later life to reduce their inheritance tax liability. Trevor...

Successive Chancellors (we’re looking at you Gordon Brown and George Osborne) have monkeyed around with the market as if it was...

The founder of a luxury holiday lets firm in one of the UK’s tourist hotspots says even wealthy landlords are now...

Across the country landlords and renters are struggling as mortgage costs soar, tax hikes bite and uncertainty remains about the impact...

Baron John Bird, co-founder of the Big Issue newspaper sold by the homeless and vulnerably-housed, is suggesting that landlords give tenants...

This year Tax Freedom Day fell on Thursday June 8. This was the day of the year by which, theoretically, the...

Inheritance tax receipts hit £600 million in April 2023 according to data released by HMRC. This is £100 million higher than...

There’s uncertainty over whether the latest inflation figure - showing an annualised drop from 10.1 per cent last month to 8.7...

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

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

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

New figures show that property taxes - often rising as a result of frozen thresholds - lead the way as the...

With less than one month left until the end of the tax year, many experienced investors will have completed their tax...

Overseas buyers - likely in many cases to be investors - have taken a bigger stake in the wealthy enclave of...

A host of local Labour leaders including mayors Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are leading a call for an immediate private...

Although most landlords will be on fixed rate mortgages, those suffering because of recent interest rate rises have some good news...

A cross-party think tank, Demos, says inheritance is becoming an ever more important aspect of the UK housing market. In a new...

The new editor of an influential newspaper property supplement has come up with a way of solving what she calls “the...

New figures from HMRC this week show that the Treasury raked in another £4.1 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the...

Scottish landlords have been targeted with a raft of restrictive legislation in recent years but most are staying the course and...

The Private Rental Sector is undeniably in need of some assistance, as recent changes to legislation and global events have put...

The Bank of England has increased its base rate from 2.25 per cent to 3.0 per cent. This is the largest hike...

Propertymark’s head of policy and campaigns, Timothy Douglas, will explain how investment in the private rented sector can be better incentivised when...

MPs from Opposition parties in the House of Commons have attacked the government’s recent stamp duty change - and taken the...

As landlords know better than most, property taxes are a rich seam of revenue for the government. And now, new figures show...

An emergency rent freeze in the private and public sectors has been announced this afternoon in Scotland. It will last until...

HMRC is reported to have issued a warning to people who used Airbnb or other short-let platforms to find tenants during...

Latest figures released by HM Revenue & Customs show yet another large increase in the amount of taxation received by the...

The new academic year is just around the corner, so many landlords will be thinking about student housing sector to diversify...

The Hargreaves Lansdown Savings and Resilience Barometer - which looks at national resilience on debts, savings, investing and planning for later...

A charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, wants a form of Right To Buy to be given to private tenants.  Right To Buy...

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...

Eddie Hughes MP - the sole surviving Boris Johnson appointee in the housing ministry and the man behind the Renters Reform...

Startling new housing market data has been interpreted as “torment for tenants” according to a business analyst. The latest Halifax house price...

A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

The Building Safety Bill has become law - and while it does offer help to leaseholder landlords with one or two...

The significant majority of private renters are happy with their properties, status and their landlords according to a new survey. A report...

The National Landlord Investment Show is back in London next week with a pledge that it will be the most spectacular...

Wealthier tenants will benefit from stiffer affordability criteria as stock levels fall and demand increases according to DJ Alexander Ltd, part...

One of the UK’s most prestigious agencies claims that deals to buy the country’s dearest homes have been negotiated using asset-backed...

Airbnb can make life easier for UK landlords by increasing yields, simplifying the rental process and providing peace of mind against...

People you can trust are an essential part of your team when you get into investing in property. If you’re using solicitors,...

The UK Muslim charity National Zakat Foundation has introduced a Covid Recovery Scheme to support tenants at risk of eviction. The charity...

Some 30 per cent of landlords who plan to remortgage by mid-2022 intent to release equity from their properties according to...

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

Estate agency Savills has upgraded its forecasts for the UK’s prime housing markets - good news for investors in this niche. The...

There’s been a sharp fall in money raised from a campaign encouraging landlords to voluntarily disclose tax owed on rental properties...

Former Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has spoken out against what he calls “the greed of the mega-landlords.” The veteran MP -...

Investment bank and wealth management consultancy Arbuthnot Latham predicts the next big growth area for buy to let will be Houses...

Investment advisers Sterling Wealth Associates says the north of England is the go-to spot in the UK for property investment.  It says...

Two landlords have spoken out about their losses and treatment from a lettings agency which has collapsed. Last month we reported that...

A logistics software company with clients across the property spectrum has become the latest critic of the government’s axing of the...

One of the most respected and experienced agents in Prime Central London has given an insight into the lettings market in...

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

On top of the rush to beat the stamp duty holiday deadline and changes to Help To Buy - both with cliff...

A philanthropist claims the difficulty some younger people have in getting on the property ownership ladder is caused by Baby Boomers...

A property development consultancy is tipping five regeneration areas in England as potential good investments for the coming year. SevenCapital says they...

Members of a wealthy Blackburn family of landlords with a portfolio of properties have been sentenced for defrauding the Department for...

The number of overseas landlords admitting tax avoidance has risen 65 per cent in five years according to an accountancy firm. Moore,...

A financial planner is advising landlords on how to minimise their current Capital Gains Tax liability ahead of possible change. Chancellor Rishi...

When it comes to property investment, there is no one ‘right’ way to do it in order to succeed. Likewise, there...

Data from estate agency Carter Jonas reveals which borough in the capital appears to be seeing the largest number of people...

The government’s decision to grant new housing applications in England “automatic” consent as part of planning reforms should lead to a...

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

The chancellor’s decision to order a review of capital gains tax, signalling a future raid on second homeowners, including buy-to-let landlords,...

Many people feel anxious and uncomfortable when getting themselves into debt and understandably this is why many of us strive to...

Thousands of property investors, including buy-to-let landlords adding to their portfolios, face potential legal disputes if they avoid completion of transactions,...