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With recently released figures revealing Airbnb’s huge reach across the country and Build to Rent’s rapid growth, Property Investor Today analyses...

With the Conservative Party winning a big majority in last week's general election, it will be expected to honour its manifesto pledge...

Overseas buyers may be faced with a relative drop in value of up to 30% in the event of a Conservative...

The Conservative Party has unveiled plans for a 3% stamp duty surcharge for non-UK tax residents who are purchasing property, which...

Whether you’re a first-time landlord or an experienced one, there are frequent regulatory changes in the buy-to-let sector that you will...

You can earn good money from buy-to-let property. Over the last few decades, people have been investing in property to supplement...

Some 97% of property investors do not think the government is doing enough to support the UK property market, new research...

A Brexit-inspired holiday letting boom is expected to hit the South West this year, according to local holiday letting agency Bournecoast. The...

Letting a home can be an intimidating task if you’re doing it for the first time. You may have deliberately entered...

Brexit uncertainty is continuing to drive foreign investment in the UK, research by CashbackRemortgages.co.uk has claimed. A third of multi-million pound homes...

Even though the most recent Budget offered some welcome relief for landlords and the buy-to-let sector as a whole, there are...

Asking rents have reached a record high this quarter following an ongoing trend of fewer property investors purchasing buy-to-let properties, according...

The housing market is not set up for the increasing number of life-long renters, a property management company has claimed. DJ Alexander,...

There will be a continued dampening of the buy-to-let sector over the next three years, before the market stabilises in 2021...

Attitudes towards being a landlord in the current economic and political climate remain optimistic, according to recent research from Your Move. Its...

New research by Gatehouse Bank has revealed that Winchester is home to the most vulnerable rental market as tax changes amplify...

Property is still top choice when it comes to long-term investment, according to findings from a survey carried out by Perrys...

Allsop saw strong results at its May residential auction despite growing wariness among investors across the UK. By close of business, the...

As the National Landlord Investment Show prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary at Aston Villa Football Club on Wednesday May 16th,...

A property expert from Finchley-based Richard Anthony Chartered Accountants has warned potential investors to plan their investment with care. This comes...

Research by bridging finance lender mtf has found that a third of UK property professionals are set to expand their portfolios...

Private Finance’s latest buy-to-let hotspots analysis has revealed that Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best-performing locations for property investment, with...

Allsop Residential Auctions has taken a look back on a successful 2017 for the firm, when it raised a total of...

Landlords showed extreme resilience in 2017, new data has revealed, with 57% of the mortgage applications received by Accord Buy To...

Bishop Fleming has called for the Chancellor in his next Budget to assist residential landlords who wish to downsize their property...

The UK is now the fifth worst country in Europe for buy-to-let investment, with average rental yields of just 4%. The findings,...

Sales of buy-to-let properties continue to be driven by pension “pot hunters”, according to the latest findings from Sequre Property Investment. Sequre’s...

A number of buy-to-let landlords are turning their attention to student housing, which is regarded by many property investors as a...

Improvements to the existing stamp duty regime would significantly boost the number of housing transactions across England and Wales, according to...

A single mum who lived in a council flat with her newborn baby has been given a new £120,000 home for...

There was a marginal increase in the number of residential property sales in prime central London in the first half of...

There has been a sharp decline in the number of buy-to-let property acquisitions, following the government’s decision to introduce the 3%...

A new ‘questions and answers’ resource designed to make it easier for those investing in property to understand their Stamp Duty...

The government’s decision to introduce stamp duty land tax (SDLT) reforms 12 months ago has had an adverse impact on the...

Sterner affordability criteria, stress testing and more robust risk management for lenders seeking to underwrite mortgage contracts has left many property...

Property transactions fell in April this year, down 3.2% on March’s total, according to the latest figures from HM Revenue &...

The number of property investors looking to invest in the buy-to-let market continued to fall last month as a result of...

The property auctions market continued to slow across the UK last month, with the number of lots offered and sold at...

The Property Investor & Homebuyer Show, the UK’s most comprehensive property exhibition, takes place at London ExCeL this week – 28...

Gross mortgage lending held up relatively well last month despite a fall of almost 20% year-on-year, according to the latest estimate...

Residential property prices will surge by more than £50,000 over the next four years despite Brexit uncertainty, economists predict. The average UK...

Residential property sales across many parts of the UK will fall in the year ahead, especially in London, if demand for...

Yesterday’s rather low-key Budget statement failed to mention the housing market as the government continues to bury its head on the...

Britain is a nation obsessed with property but experts have warned those thinking of investing in buy-to-let are facing headwinds that...

The UK housing market remains remarkably solid, as reflected by the 4.9% increase in the volume of residential property transactions between...

Private property investors, including buy-to-let landlords, who missed their self-assessment tax return payment last week and do not have a valid...

Demand for bridging loans surged last year, as a growing number of property investors turned to short-term finance solutions, which typically...

Asking prices for homes in Britain have increased marginally in the last month, while demand on the house-hunting website Rightmove has...

Despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty, sales volumes are rising in the central London prime property market as buyers look to...

Fewer people are expected to invest in residential property in 2017, as tax changes and economic uncertainty deter many property investors...

Homeowners and property investors in Greater London are facing steep falls in house prices as the slowdown in prime areas of...

A number of property investors, including buy-to-let landlords and property developers, are still unaware that they are liable to pay the...

While buying property in the UK has proved to be a lucrative move for many buy-to-let landlords, it is increasingly holding...

A strong showing from private investors helped Allsop raise £61.1m at their November residential property auction, held at the Cumberland Hotel...

There was a surprise rise in UK home prices in October, despite the slowdown in the housing market in recent months,...

Residential property prices in the UK were unchanged in October compared with the previous month following 15 consecutive months of house...

The number of home sales fell sharply in the year to September, the latest figures from the tax office show. According to...

Investors, landlords and property enthusiasts will descend on London's ExCel on October 7 and 8 for the annual Property Investor &...

The UK's largest auction network, Auction House, says that the introduction of the 3% stamp duty surcharge in April has paved...

Residential property prices in the UK dipped by 0.9% in July compared with a month earlier, despite a healthy rise in...

The number of residential property transactions in the UK increased by 4.9% between May and June, according to new data from...

Gross mortgage lending rose by 16% last month compared with May to reach an eight-year high for the month of June,...

Residential property sales in the UK increased by 1.5% in May compared with April but the month’s seasonally adjusted figure is...

Residential property prices in the UK could fall by up to 20% as a consequence of the Chancellor George Osborne’s buy-to-...

Residential property prices in the UK fell by 0.4% in May, the steepest decline since November 2011, as the European Union...

House prices are still rising but surveyors are warning the market to be braced for a significant slowdown in the coming...

Housing market activity in the UK remained healthy as overall valuation activity in May increased by almost a fifth on an...

Residential property auction sales remained relatively firm in April despite the introduction of the new stamp duty surcharge, according to official...

Foreign investors are expected to push through deals for properties in the Australian state of Victoria before an increase in taxes...

Property investor Marco Robinson is offering fellow property investors an opportunity to win a buy-to-let property in Manchester worth in the...

Mortgage lenders are slashing the cost of buy-to-let mortgages in a move that will bring some relief to private investors eyeing...

There was a sharp increase in the number of property transactions between February and March 2016 as property investors rushed to...

Last month was a good one for the UK property auction sector, which continues to attract a wide array of national...

There was a significant increase in the volume of buy-to-let mortgage products available in the UK in the first quarter of...

Residential property prices across many parts of the UK look set to cool over the next few months amid ‘Brexit’ uncertainty, but...

As the deadline for stamp duty purchases before the 3% surcharge passed last night, it has been reported that investors have...

Research by conveyancing experts My Home Move has revealed that activity within the buy-to-let and second home market has risen by...

Increased activity from landlords and investors has pushed demand for property to a six-month high, according to the latest report from...

As 2015 draws to a close, the Essential Information Group (EIG) has published its latest figures covering the whole of the...