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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...

The percentage of tenants borrowing money to fund their cash deposits on their next property has risen over the last 12...

Rightmove is warning that the housing market is set for disruptions from the summer onwards, and suggests the brisk start to...

Nick Woodward, director of lettings at Essential Living, gives insights into why renting may be the best option for many. 1. Responsibility...

Around half of first-time buyers say their prospects of owning a home are further away than ever due to the ongoing...

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

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 popular narrative may have been that first time buyers have been priced out of the market, partly by landlords: but...

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

Rental growth continued to cool in February, says the latest market snapshot from lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month, the average rent on...

A new market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows tenant demand rising but at a rather more modest...

Some 40% of residential landlords with a mortgage - fixed, tracker or discount - are due to renew their mortgage rate...

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

UK house prices rose for the fifth consecutive month in February, up by 0.4 per cent or £1,091 in cash terms,...

In September the Prime Minister announced that landlords will no longer be required to meet the minimum EPC minimum energy rating...

The latest index, from the Halifax, shows house prices rose 0.4 per cent in February – the fifth consecutive monthly increase....

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

Building on the momentum of 2023, the North West is poised for continued growth in rental and property prices. Early investment...

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

The letting agents’ trade body has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically decided...

Knight Frank says that the Bank of England base rate is likely to stay unchanged at 5.25 per cent for at...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

According to Haslams lettings agency’s latest House Price Index, a new hotspot has emerged for private rental sector investors. It claims Reading...

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

Landlords selling up because of rising taxes and unaffordable regulations are being advised not to be over ambitious with asking prices.  Tim...

Buy to let specialist lender Paragon Bank has introduced offers on its two-year fixed rate BTL mortgages, including its lowest rate...

A recent survey by digital mortgage lender, Molo, revealed that nearly 60% of UK landlords have seen a rise in late...

There’s a warning today that the Bank of England’s decision to freeze base rate at the high level of 5.25 per...

A prominent London-focused agent and property consultant says landlords are prioritising long term ‘tenant quality’ over short term yields. Jo Eccles, founder...

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

The government is considering allowing renters to buy their first homes with just one per cent deposits, according  to press reports...

A prominent analyst says the threat of rising inflation caused by the Red Sea shipping attacks - on top of this...

Despite a sharp fall in the number of homes bought by landlords in 2023, the number of limited companies set up...

Average new seller asking prices rose 1.3 per cent between December and January - the biggest rise at this time of...

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...

The Penrith Building Society has scrapped mortgage application fees for all buy to let and residential  products, including further advances, until...

There’s a warning this morning that stricter Energy Performance Certificate measures for the private rental sector may not have gone, after...

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

The latest Halifax house price index shows average house prices rose by 1.1 per cent in December, the third monthly rise...

One of the UK’s best known platforms for mortgages has significantly reduced its Buy To Let rates. Starting from 3.79 per cent,...

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...

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...

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

By Luke Lightfoot, Regional Director of Asset Management at Sigma Capital As the fastest growing sub-sector in the UK rental market, it’s...

Monthly interest costs have surged by 283 per cent since 2021 for landlords using interest-only mortgages, research shows. Octane Capital compared rates...

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

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...

The latest RICS Residential Survey, out today, points to an improved outlook for the housing market, with the more optimistic sentiment...

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

The Mortgage Works is reducing rates on products for new and existing landlord customers by up to 0.40 percentage points, with...

UK house prices rose for the second month in a row in November, boosted by a shortage of properties, says the...

I recently attended the NRLA’s annual conference in Birmingham and a theme that still dominates discussion in the industry is the...

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

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

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

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

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

Zoopla is warning that there will be further house price falls in 2024 on top of the 4.5 per cent drop...

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 survey by a finance firm suggests not all landlords are passing their higher mortgage costs on to tenants. Octane Capital has...

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

An insurance firm is warning landlords about the risks of personal guarantees as a condition of buy to let mortgages. Purbeck Personal...

The housing market remains a buyers’ market, with 80 per cent more homes for sale than in September 2021 according to...

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

Zoopla has given its latest market update on the private rental sector, with the headline rent rise now being 10.5 per...

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...

As the ‘big buy-to-let’ sell off gathers momentum, we take a look ways you can guestimate the value of your rental...

A veteran Tory MP who has been a junior minister in the department responsible for housing now says the rental market...

Paragon Bank is the latest to reduce mortgage rates for landlords. It’s cut rates across 22 buy-to-let mortgage products, with fixed deals...

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...

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...

Yearly returns on the average buy-to-let property in the UK were over £4000 lower in June 2023, compared to the same...

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

A PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his criticism of the government for failing to put flesh on the bones of the Renters...

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

In an unusual move, London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says home owners in dire financial difficulties should be able to switch...

Rents continue to rise rapidly in every English region, Scotland and Wales according to the latest market snapshot from the respected...

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

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

Whereas it’s likely that every single landlord has seen higher costs over the past year, two out of five tenants have...

Some 18 per cent of buy to let landlords have suggested they are not raising rents for tenants despite inflation and...

The latest market snapshot from Zoopla suggests landlords’ capital appreciation over the second half of this year depends almost entirely on...

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

Almost one in five renters say high mortgage rates mean they can’t afford to buy now and have put purchase plans...

A small poll of 100 letting agents by PropTech firm Goodlord has revealed that a strong majority believe the current pressures...

The average price of homes coming to the market have dipped slightly once again, according to Rightmove. The newly-marketed properties are some...

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

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...

The average UK house price fell slightly in June, by around £300 compared to May with a typical property now costing...

Britain has suffered the worst house price fall out of any major European economy according to a report from property consultancy Knight...

It looks likely that rental demand will remain high over then indefinite long term as some people resist growing mortgage periods. New...

A mortgage expert is warning that a housing market crash now looks ”inevitable” as expectations run high of what many be...