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UK house prices rose by 0.7 per cent in February, says the Nationwide, after taking account of seasonal effects. This resulted in...

The prestigious Property Investors Awards - organised by the Property Investors Bureau - have announced their 2023 results. “This year we saw...

A new analysis shows increasing returns on buy-to-let investments serving students, with the strongest yields seen in the UK’s smaller university...

A high profile buy to let lender has announced the launch of top slicing on applications. This enables investor borrowers to use...

Welsh Houses in Multiple Occupation are generating the highest yields across Britain, new data has revealed. The data from buy to let...

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

All overseas entities owning UK property must supply their details to the Register of Overseas Entities by January 31 2023. Despite this...

Brits who are dreaming of moving abroad have been offered helpful tips and advice on how much it typically costs to...

The leading provider of cloud-based, Dye & Durham, efficient workflow software for legal and business professionals, is significantly upgrading its Index...

Pitch 4 Finance has announced that it is relaunching as Provide Finance, heralding a new era for sourcing, and securing specialist...

Following Liz Truss’s victory last week, Nicola Gooch and Claire Petricca-Riding of Irwin Mitchell have put the below together as to...

A significant nationwide study by leading specialist lender, Together predicts the UK specialist residential mortgage market will treble to £16 billion...

In this guest piece, Theresa Mohammed discusses the Balfour Beatty v Broadway Malyan decision which highlights the issues with obtaining early...

In the first quarter of this year, the number of planning applications received by councils in England has fallen by almost...

Over 5,500 people have applied for the dream job of becoming a holiday home tester in Spain – and there’s still a...

The average UK house price hit a fresh high in May, rising for the 11th month in a row, according to...

The UK private rented sector has become increasingly attractive to institutional, large-scale investors in recent years as returns on investment elsewhere...

The number of planning approvals dipped in April and appears to have continued into May, signalling the end of the post-Covid...

The best locations for planning permission approval across the UK have been revealed by new analysis carried out by Townscape Architects. The...

The Build to Rent (BTR) market has traditionally focused primarily on young professionals, with developments generally comprising apartment blocks with bolt-ons...

In this mini update, PIT looks at the latest in planning applications, with affordable factory-built homes in Hastings, high-quality homes anticipated...

Here, Giles Sutcliffe, head of affordable housing at Cluttons, shares his insight on what is needed in order to achieve affordable...

Labour’s London Assembly planning spokesperson has claimed that much-needed new homes will remain unbuilt and potential jobs unfilled without long-term investment...

While the level of new homes being granted planning permission dipped during the first year of the pandemic, this negative trend...

Here at Property Investor Today, we've regularly championed the work of young entrepreneurs involved within the property industry, from Lydia Jones...

A housing development company wholly owned by Manchester City Council was formally launched late last week (Friday February 4) in order...

Prime Secure’s Fire Safety division has launched the UK’s first affordable wireless common fire alarm system, V-Fire, which removes the need...

In this guest piece, Marcus Blake, managing director of Berkeley St George City & St Joseph, sets out why the UK's...

Things that don’t mix well? Polka dots and stripes, planning and politics. The run-up to an election is usually an uncertain...

Despite recent warnings from the Bank of England that it could be worthless and investors being at a potentially greater risk...

A PropTech firm says it recently saved one of its premium Build to Rent (BTR) clients more than £160,000 by preventing a US-based...

A new report by planning consultancy Lichfields has raised major issues for the growing housing emergency and the government’s target of...

This week’s auction roundup is a mixed bag, with SDL Property Auctions holding a fundraising sweepstake as part of its latest...

Tenant demand appears to have returned to the capital’s rental market as the pandemic freeze continues to thaw. Analysis from London estate...

According to data from due diligence and guarantee firm, Homeppl, the Build to Rent (BTR) sector is being targeted by fraudsters with...

The UK has a longstanding problem with housing. A shortfall in available and viable land in areas with investment potential is...

A new survey of more than 500 UK property investors, carried out by SearchLand, has shed light on the key challenges...

One of the key problems facing the UK housing market can be boiled down to: lots of demand and not enough...

An effective method for sourcing and obtaining sites is critical to the success of any property developer. Starting construction on a...

Scarborough Group International (SGI) has submitted two reserved matters planning applications and a revised outline planning application for the next significant...

A rising problem in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector is tenant fraud. The busiest time of year for renters is...

Unite Students, a student accommodation provider, has announced its new property in Bristol will be named after Princess Campbell, the city’s...

A small project in property development industry terms can be quite literally life-changing from a personal income point of view. But...

Off-site construction specialist Premier Modular has been awarded a place on the new £330 million LHC Modular Buildings Framework. Premier’s appointment to the...

Simple Life has partnered with Vistry Partnerships and Wakefield District Housing to build 140 two and three-bedroom eco-friendly properties in the...

Property Investor Today gains insight from Dudley Mills, land and planning director of property developers Kebbell, to uncover what the role is...

More than a third (34%) of landlords have recently purchased another buy-to-let (BTL) property or intend to buy one within the...

Pipelife Norway has become the latest supplier to use BIOVYN™, the world’s first commercially available bio-attributed PVC from INOVYN. As Norway’s largest...

One of the big questions that has become even more stark during the pandemic – which has devastated the already struggling...

Last week, Global Citizen Solutions – a boutique migration investment firm headquartered in Lisbon – held a webinar to discuss the...

There is a much greater sales potential to be unleashed from Chinese buyers, a leading China expert has claimed. Domenica Di Lieto,...

Tech company The Future Fox has received funding from Innovate UK and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to...

Last week, two of the UK’s biggest housebuilders – Barratt and Berkeley – held webinars aimed at investors. While new-build developments have traditionally...

The self-build market is estimated to have declined in value by some 10% in 2020, as a result of the Covid-19...

Investors trying to expand their portfolios can avoid delays caused by residential buyers taking advantage of the Chancellor's stamp duty extension by using four 'buy-to-let hacks', according to broker Mortgages...

International investors are increasingly focusing on the buy-to-let (BTL) property market in the North West of England, according to property investment...

In this bumper development roundup, PIT explores regeneration projects in Sheffield, office to residential conversions in high-end Bloomsbury and schemes providing...

Virtual tours are to be offered at the Springfields Independent Living facility in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester, as the project delivered by contractor...

Fine & Country Portugal is currently running a series of webinars entitled ‘Your Second Home’, covering various topics related to the...

Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency have been such buzzwords in the last decade. We hear these concepts often pertaining to a variety...

A number of experts in the Portuguese property market have pointed out that the Golden Visa scheme, which is set to...

In a year of tumultuous uncertainty, where the headwinds of Covid-19 bore a number of new realities and decimated others, some...

In this bumper development roundup - the final one of the year - we explore the planned creation of new developments and...

In early December, senior researcher at AMA Research, Alex Blagden, talked about an expected surge in Build to Rent (BTR) applications...

One of the biggest property investment trends of the year, driven by the pandemic and the devastation this has caused for...

In this opinion piece, Elizabeth Osborne - a legal director at Ashfords Solicitors - asks whether the government's proposed planning reforms will be dangerous...

For anyone looking to purchase a second property, the experts at regulated fast house sale site Good Move have provided all...

As the clock ticks ever closer to the end of the transition period, and the start of post-Brexit Britain from January,...

The government’s Help to Buy scheme has reportedly assisted 80% of buyers to purchase more than £1 million-worth of apartments at...

The high street was already struggling before the pandemic, but Covid-19 has perhaps sent it into terminal decline. High streets in major...

While the UK experienced a property boom during lockdown, buy-to-let (BTL) landlords aren’t necessarily reaping the benefits so easily, according to...

With changes to the use class system and permitted development rights now in force, Christina Daniels and Marisia Beard of leading law firm...

The purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector is showing signs of recovery following market disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to...

A unique site in Havant has been visited by Environment Minister Rebecca Pow after its borough council became the first local...

Who are you? David Alexander What does it say on your business card? Joint Manager Director What is apropos? Apropos is a revolutionary new property management...

Despite the current thawing of relations between Westminster and Beijing, caused by controversial new laws in Hong Kong (a former British colony)...

Despite the uncertainties posed by coronavirus for the higher education sector, new student accommodation developments are showing no signs of slowing...

A Dutch company has released an app that allows investors across the globe to access real estate investments, as Covid-19 continues...

The UK lettings market has experienced a 'remarkable bounce back' in activity since reopening on May 13, according to Goodlord. Its data...

The latest research from Property Hub has revealed that a huge 98% of property investors still consider property to be a...

While England slowly starts to emerge from lockdown under the UK government’s three-point plan (the devolved administrations are taking a slightly...

Welcome to this special, VE Bank Holiday (and lockdown), edition of Property Investor Today. We hope all our readers are having...

With lockdown measures in place until at least May 7, and the coronavirus pandemic continuing to influence all aspects of everyday...

One of the very few silver linings of the current coronavirus pandemic has been the seemingly positive impact lockdowns across the...

Goodison Park, the home of Everton FC since 1892, is set to be converted into ‘high-quality, affordable housing’ and other uses...

New research from Churchill Home Insurance has revealed that nearly two million people have complained about planning permission applications since the...

Following on from our recent article about the average property scam costing victims more than £107,000, fresh research from fraud prevention...

Specialist buy-to-let broker Commercial Trust has found a growing number of two-year fixed rate buy-to-let applications in the first half of...

Cyprus’ property market is at an 11-year high, following a rush of applications to the country’s ‘Golden Visa’ citizenship programme, according...

Property prices in South East London are set to increase faster than much of Greater London thanks to significant regeneration throughout...

Landlords with bigger portfolios are switching to using limited company status for new purchases, according to research carried out by specialist...

An increasing number of landlords are choosing five-year fixed rate products, according to Mortgages for Business’ Buy-to-Let Index. In fact, 84% of...

It now takes, on average, 102 days to sell a property in the UK, according to Post Office Money. Its latest ‘City...

The UK’s ‘ultimate property domain’ property.co.uk is available to purchase and is expected to attract strong interest from online estate agents...

London boroughs with an average house price of over £1 million are more likely to have planning permissions approved, according to...

Research by peer-to-peer platform Lendy has revealed that the number of conversions of farm buildings into new homes fell by 20%...

Securing a mortgage is a challenging feat for three quarters of portfolio landlords after the introduction of the Prudential Regulation Authority...

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

Prices rose across the UK in October compared to the previous month, according to fresh research conducted by the Mortgage Advice...

A buy-to-let (BTL) loan product targeted at experienced, professional property investors and landlords operating in England, Wales and Scotland has been...