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The tough economic climate has seen the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad increase its stake in the UK’s mortgage market to...
05 October 2023
From: Breaking News
New research by lending service Octane Capital reveals that the average buy to let investor has seen the money they owe...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
As the ‘big buy-to-let’ sell off gathers momentum, we take a look ways you can guestimate the value of your rental...
14 September 2023
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Pepper Advantage, a global credit intelligence company, has released data which points to potential future increases in credit impairments in the...
27 April 2023
From: Breaking News
With the latest news of interest rates rising, banks closing, and the stock market plummeting, now is not a “safe” time...
20 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Rental yields and tenant demand are holding firm for landlords’ property investments, however profitability of portfolios was slightly down on the...
09 February 2023
From: Breaking News
When we read about financial headwinds, soaring inflation due to energy price rises and a looming recession on the horizon, it’s...
02 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A leading buying agent has claimed that, with the mortgage market still in turmoil post-the disastrous mini-Budget (and its near total...
28 October 2022
From: Breaking News
In the parish of Great Bromley, Essex, there is currently disused land and Blackfinch Property has provided a £7.6 million loan...
14 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Pluto Finance closed £130 million of senior development finance in August, at an average margin of 4.1% and an average Loan...
05 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Newable Finance, the finance brokerage & advisory arm of Newable, launches video advert campaign ahead of the new EPC legislations for...
29 September 2022
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I work closely with specialist mortgage brokers to help my clients to secure mortgages in Spain because it’s such a tricky...
27 July 2022
From: Breaking News
In this guest piece, Judith Tan, head of capital markets at EstateGuru, looks at how investors can hedge their bets against...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
With new research finding over 10 million UK adults are considering becoming a holiday let landlord and the volume and total...
20 April 2022
From: Breaking News
The government’s Levelling Up Home Building Fund is unlikely to provide enough funding to supply loans to all of the nation’s...
14 March 2022
From: Breaking News
With such a high percentage of investment offers failing to raise finance, you need to be well-prepared when raising money for...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The theme of this week’s roundup is growth and success. Savills Auctions welcomes a new associate and MSP Capital’s reports a successful auction...
04 February 2022
From: Breaking News
We’re already into the second month of 2022, but predictions on what the market could bring for the remainder of the...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
A zero-tolerance policy response to Covid-19, declining property prices, and a flexible and accommodative central bank all set China apart from...
31 January 2022
From: Breaking News
This week’s development roundup highlights the latest in development and investment, from Elevate Property Group’s decade-long run and Legal & General’s...
24 January 2022
From: Breaking News
In this guest piece, Spanish real estate agent and property expert Sean Woolley shares his experience of getting a mortgage in...
24 January 2022
From: Breaking News
It’s been announced that property experts from international law company Gowling WLG are advising Lincoln MGT on the £750 million regeneration...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News
This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at the latest development and investment news, featuring Avanton’s breakout into the BTR sector...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News
In this guest piece, Jamie Pritchard, head of sales at Glenhawk, asks whether macroeconomic challenges are going to halt the renewed momentum of...
17 December 2021
From: Breaking News
PIT takes a closer look at the latest auction news, from MSP Capital’s brand-new bridging loan to support auction growth and...
03 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Group and a leading UK specialist real estate lender and investor, has revealed that it has...
27 October 2021
From: Breaking News
In part three of our series on the booming commercial to residential sector, we look at some of the recent schemes...
18 October 2021
From: Breaking News
New principal lender GRE Finance “GRE” has provided a £5 million facility, at 70% LTV on an 18-month term, to property...
29 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Marden Homes Limited has secured a £17 million loan from Shawbrook Bank to help complete a ‘unique’, luxury lakeside scheme at...
15 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Lender Fiduciam has provided a £5 million development loan for the construction of a £10 million seven-storey residential apartment building in...
08 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Taggart Homes has revealed plans for a number of new schemes across the UK, the acquisition of a home building company...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Asset management platform for property finance LendInvest recently partnered with two British multinational universal banks Barclays and HSBC. LendInvest offers products and...
18 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Why would a commercial lender give you money for a small-scale property development project? The answer is … profit. They’ll typically...
18 August 2021
From: Breaking News
The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed personal lives and the economy. UK firms have suffered because of the outbreak. Staying at...
13 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Not for profit charity Emerging Futures has secured a loan from Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC), from its Social and Sustainable...
14 July 2021
From: Breaking News
With Britain experiencing a staycation surge, it is unsurprising that beach huts have become increasingly hot property. Beach huts have become...
12 July 2021
From: Breaking News
When it comes to investing in developments and resorts abroad, UK-based development firms might be concerned about finance and how to...
18 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) sector is an incredibly exciting industry to be in right now with a very promising future...
11 June 2021
From: Breaking News
A specialist real estate development finance provider, Maslow Capital, has supplied a £13.7 million loan facility to Sheen Lane Developments for...
09 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Despite having only around three million inhabitants, Lithuania is punching well above its weight, enjoying years of economic growth. Its architecture...
02 June 2021
From: Breaking News
With Portugal on the UK’s green list and slowly reopening to British (and other) holidaymakers, the country is likely to be...
28 May 2021
From: Breaking News
More than a third (34%) of landlords have recently purchased another buy-to-let (BTL) property or intend to buy one within the...
19 May 2021
From: Breaking News
With lockdown easing and the vaccine rollout continuing to go well, there is hope on the horizon again for a brighter...
07 May 2021
From: Breaking News
Real estate funding specialist ASK Partners and OakNorth Bank have completed a £22 million co-loan for the next phase of an...
26 April 2021
From: Breaking News
As a once in a lifetime event, the response to the pandemic has taken precedence over other global issues, including our...
19 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Early next month, Londoners will head to the polls to elect the capital’s next Mayor, in a vote that has been...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Over-55s used housing equity to clear more than £612 million of unsecured debt in 2020, new data from Key has revealed. Credit...
31 March 2021
From: Breaking News
In light of the controversy surrounding cladding as of late, DBRS Morningstar has released a commentary titled ‘UK Cladding: Much More...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News
In theory, investing in the European property market is simple, but in reality it can be a little more challenging. The first...
01 March 2021
From: Breaking News
A leading leasehold law expert has warned that leaseholders affected by the cladding scandal face 'years of misery'. Mark Chick, a specialist...
26 February 2021
From: Breaking News
2020 was a tough pill to swallow for Europe’s real estate markets as some segments were forced into extremely disruptive lockdowns...
22 February 2021
From: Breaking News
There has been an increasing trend in recent years for property investment courses which promise financial freedom and untold riches for...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A joint venture between Audley Group, Schroders Real Estate and Octopus Real Estate has secured a £47 million development loan for...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
It would be an understatement to say that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused upheaval to sectors, industries and businesses around the...
27 January 2021
From: Breaking News
2020 was a challenging year for many industries across the world, and especially those in the UK. Amongst national lockdowns, stringent...
20 January 2021
From: Property Investment & Strategy
A London-based property development company, founded by two young local entrepreneurs, managed to post record sales over the last two quarters...
18 January 2021
From: Breaking News
With 2021 now just around the corner, thoughts naturally turn to what next year might bring. For existing investors, this could...
21 December 2020
From: Breaking News
The UK property market is in a state of flux. Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic has had a marked effect on landlords,...
16 December 2020
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New data has revealed that thousands of affected property businesses across the UK qualify to join a major High Court fraud...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News
Sally Maier-Yip, managing director of 11K Consulting, the UK's leading China PR and comms agency, outlines why buyers from Hong Kong and...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News
If you are dreaming of buying a property in Spain, there is so much to think about and many things to...
30 October 2020
From: Overseas Property
It’s painfully apparent that the risk of landlords and investors not receiving rent during the Covid-19 pandemic is far higher than...
30 October 2020
From: Breaking News
The former Master Brewer Hotel in Hillingdon, which has been left vacant since 2012, has taken a step closer to being...
09 September 2020
From: Breaking News
There has never been a harder time to be a landlord in the UK. The pressures that the last six months...
28 August 2020
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In recent years, there has been considerable controversy over the use of ‘no DSS’ in homes being listed for let, with...
29 July 2020
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Following the recent introduction of a stamp duty holiday, property investors can remortgage to raise funds for future purchases. According to Paragon...
22 July 2020
From: Breaking News
Multifamily (Build to Rent) housing is set to be the UK’s most resilient real estate sector, according to a report from...
13 July 2020
From: Breaking News
There's no denying that Covid-19 has caused huge disruption to the global economy, and, unfortunately, it has hit UK entrepreneurs hard, too - including property investors. With...
13 July 2020
From: Breaking News
The Oaks – Student Roost’s 50th student accommodation, situated near Warwick University - is on course to open early, it has...
06 July 2020
From: Breaking News
The nation's property investors are increasingly looking to grow their cash reserves and expand their portfolios, according to Mortgages for Business. The...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News
In part one, we looked at the major institutional investors ploughing money into the rapidly growing Build to Rent (BTR) sector. Here,...
17 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Portugal, already a highly popular holiday, second home and retirement destination for Brits, has been widely praised for the way it...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Lots of people throughout the years have made considerable sums of money from property, but it seems unlikely that many started...
01 June 2020
From: Breaking News
A leading private wealth firm has called on the government to take urgent action to help encourage investment into much-needed senior...
29 May 2020
From: Breaking News
With lockdown measures starting to be eased, and the possible move to step 2 of the three-step plan from June 1,...
27 May 2020
From: Breaking News
While England slowly starts to emerge from lockdown under the UK government’s three-point plan (the devolved administrations are taking a slightly...
18 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Welcome to this special, VE Bank Holiday (and lockdown), edition of Property Investor Today. We hope all our readers are having...
08 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Buy a property below market value, renovate it and then make a tidy profit by selling it at a higher price, all within...
17 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on real estate finance has thrown the sector into uncharted and worrying waters. So, what...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The coronavirus pandemic has put all aspects of normal life on hold for the time being, and has affected each and...
10 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Merilee Karr, chair of the UK Short Term Accommodation Association and chief executive of UnderTheDoormat, has penned an open letter to...
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News
We’re back with another instalment of Women in Property Investment, where we chat with inspiring women who are making their mark...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News
Across the country, new developments continue to pop up everywhere you look – from the south coast of England to the...
12 February 2020
From: Breaking News
In this guest piece, Yaroslava Tkalich, chief marketing officer of Smartlands - a global investment platform for the tokenization of real economy assets by issuing...
27 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A flourishing SME housebuilder has purchased 15 acres of residential development land in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire. Storey Homes aims to go head-to-head...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News
On a rainy Thursday at the end of last year – the day of the general election, in fact – Property...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Octopus Real Estate, working alongside Cardiff-based brokerage Pure Commercial Finance, has completed the £28.3 million refinancing of UK Regeneration’s 970-acre development...
15 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Terraced homeowners in London have seen the highest price growth of any property type across the whole of England and Wales...
08 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Portsmouth-based agency NEXA Properties has released its latest report on the city which analyses how its property market is currently functioning. The...
11 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Landlords need to be aware of the finance options available to them when it comes to refurbishments, according to InterBay Commercial. Its...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News
As a landlord, it helps to understand current trends in the private rented sector and how you can maintain your buy-to-let...
31 October 2019
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The Route – Finance has raised a further £30 million for the funding of eight developments across the UK. Funded by The...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Following on from our recent article about the average property scam costing victims more than £107,000, fresh research from fraud prevention...
27 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Greece’s appeal as a property investment destination is increasing once again as the country continues to bounce back from severe economic...
31 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Property is an appealing investment: it’s been proven (in a favourable market, of course) to increase in value and it’s a...
21 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Property Investor Today recently spoke with Alex Cook, Litigation Solicitor and Partner at Helix Law to discuss the rise of property...
20 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Property investment platform Propio.com is set to launch a property ISA ahead of its April deadline. Part of a new breed of...
01 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Crowdfunded property development projects are great for home buyers and investors alike. For investors, the pros are that you don’t need a...