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A total of 149 lots are listed across southern England in the latest auction by Clive Emson Auctioneers. Bidding by the...

A barn conversion in Highland Perthshire has been launched to the open market through property consultancy Galbraith, offering what the agency...

New retail and leisure research has revealed a boom in commercial real estate activity over 2023.  The latest report by the Local...

An international off-plan property consultancy says it’s overseen a record 400-plus units launched in recent months. LH1 Global reckons it de-risks investments...

A teenager from Caterham in Surrey has shown that age has nothing on ambition after successfully completing his first redevelopment project...

A new study has uncovered the most profitable garage conversions investors can consider for properties.  According to the figures, turning a garage...

One of the West Midlands most famous landmark buildings has been listed for sale. Commercial agents and investment specialist Robert Irving Burns...

Research by a specialist lender has lifted the lid on potential property investment with HMO conversions. Octane Capital says that while the...

One-in-five landlords are considering diversifying into commercial property, according to research from Shawbrook. In the midst of economic volatility and uncertainty within...

A new study of over 600,000 available properties on Rightmove reveals that homes in need of renovation are the most in...

With the high cost of transactions making flipping less attractive than before, the Nationwide has quantified an alternative option - home...

Conversions may present new opportunities for property investors if two groups of MPs have their way. That’s because two all-party groups of...

Bond Wolfe’s December sale is rapidly approaching. Next month developers and investors will be competing for a former pub in Walsall. In...

As one of West London’s most desirable locations, and one of the capital’s biggest transport hubs, it’s perhaps not surprising that...

The UK’s leading provider of retirement villages, Audley Group, has recently announced that, following extensive consultation with the local community and...

City & Docklands, the residential developer, has announced their partnership with Unlatch, the innovative new homes CRM, data analysis, sales progression...

If our auction roundups are any indication, it is no surprise that selling a property via online auction continues to rise...

The work to transform a Sheffield Grade 1-listed former fire station from student accommodation into all-purpose residential apartments has now been...

In what is sadly my last ever auction roundup for PIT, SDL Property Auctions launches the catalogue for its July National...

Property remains a highly attractive asset class in which to invest. The demand for the product is virtually guaranteed: we’re busy...

Investors hoping to snap up a new opportunity might want to divert their attention to a former care home in West...

This week, PIT takes a look at the latest in the world of auctions. iamproperty reports a milestone result, while Auction...

In this week's roundup, PIT looks at the latest auction news, from a landmark auction up for sale with Strettons and Bond...

New research has revealed how much money landlords and investors can make in cities around the UK by furnishing their property...

The crown of UK’s number one yield hotspot goes to Bradford, according to new research compiled by PropertyData and Sequre Property...

This week’s auction roundup features a new addition, with Cheffins’ June auction dominated by land lots. Network Auctions anticipates plenty of...

There are many shades on the ‘developing property’ spectrum, and for my money, one of the most attractive hues is a...

As the market heats up for spring, this auction roundup features the latest lots on offer for the end of March....

In this guest piece, Reece Mennie, chief executive officer of HJ Collection, sets out the environmental and social benefits of residential conversions. We need...

In 2021, a year marked by rising house prices, supply chain issues and worker shortages, Michael Gove, the Secretary of State...

This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at the latest development news, from 160 new green homes coming to Croxley Green...

This week’s roundup is centred around demand, with iamsold reporting a strong rise in Modern Method of Auction as market conditions...

In this week's development roundup, Property Investor Today looks at a new ambitious scheme that will see rough sleepers in Basildon...

This week is nothing but positive, with the release of Clive Emson’s diverse catalogue, impressive lots set to go under the...

In this guest piece, Sascha Badelt, managing director of Cloverhut, outlines what investors should (and shouldn't) be doing when it comes to...

Small-scale property development is entering a phase full of fantastic opportunities. A huge housing shortage, an increase in permitted development rights,...

While 2020 was an utterly unique year, 2021 has in some ways been even more extraordinary. The first few months of...

It's been another busy year for those with a stake in the UK property market, with commercial to residential transformations, Build...

Sourced Property, the sourcing arm of the Sourced Group, has announced the launch of a 'bespoke property listing app', focused on the investor...

PIT takes a closer look at the latest auction news, from MSP Capital’s brand-new bridging loan to support auction growth and...

In this guest piece, Guy Horne, co-founder and chief executive of HSPG, sets out why provision of affordable and supported housing...

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

We recently ran a series on the commercial to residential trend sweeping across Britain in these post-Covid times, driven by offices,...

One of the questions I get asked most frequently is, 'what's the best property development strategy?'. Given that property development ranges...

In the fourth and final part of our series on the fast-growing commercial to resi trend, we check in on schemes...

In part three of our series on the booming commercial to residential sector, we look at some of the recent schemes...

In this opinion piece, Reece Mennie from HJ Collection outlines the main benefits of office-to-residential conversions – which is set to...

In this ongoing series, PIT will explore whether commercial to residential conversions – one of the biggest trends during the pandemic as...

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

An updated and revised book offering ‘the essential guide’ to converting industrial buildings for profit has been released by property experts Ian...

This mini housebuilding roundup features Lovell’s pledge to combat the housing shortage with refurbishment, and two ambitious deals from Pocket Living...

One of the biggest trends during the pandemic from a property development point of view has been a dramatic increase in...

In 2018, the total value of commercial property in the UK sat at over £880 billion, when the office market was at...

New planning changes which came into effect this month have been criticised by a renting campaigner. Ajay Jagota, the founder of...

Property auctions provide the perfect opportunity for investors, whether you’re looking to add to your portfolio or release some capital.  As a buyer, you...

One of the biggest debates raging at the moment concerns the future of the high street, which has been hit harder...

One of the major development trends since the pandemic began has been a large increase in the number of offices to...

This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at the overwhelming demand and confidence from buyers, helping to drive success for...

A specialist real estate development finance provider, Maslow Capital, has supplied a £13.7 million loan facility to Sheen Lane Developments for...

After the Prime Minister warned the country not to travel to amber or red list countries, it is now looking increasingly...

One solution that has frequently been talked about as a way of solving the housing crisis is to build upwards on...

This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at Landwood Group’s success with auctions, the launch of Strettons’ May auction catalogue,...

For landlords and property investors, maintenance is a key if not particularly glamorous part of the job. But how can landlords and...

Is property investment still a good long-term strategy, or has the taxation and regulatory reforms over the past five years made...

Real estate funding specialist ASK Partners and OakNorth Bank have completed a £22 million co-loan for the next phase of an...

This week, Property Investor Today looks at the historic lots on offer at Network Auctions and Pugh, as well as a...

One of the strangest sights during the pandemic has been the image of some of the biggest, busiest cities in the...

A national contractor says it has made ‘significant progress’ on three residential projects based in Leicester. The schemes from Stepnell include two...

A specialist provider of purpose-built student accommodation has reported a trebling in the pace of bookings since Prime Minister Boris Johnson...

Like many other things, the high street developed over time as small residential settlements became towns, with more people coming to...

Since the coronavirus crisis began, there has been lots of talk about the death of the city-centre as people seek more...

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...

A leading Spanish property expert says that British citizens still account for the largest proportion of buyers on the Spanish Costas,...

Over the last 10 months, we have seen a raft of changes to the planning rules in England. This has been...

Following on from our profile of Montenegro last week, we focus here on another up-and-coming part of Eastern Europe. Bucharest, the...

The short-lets market has undoubtedly suffered because of Covid-19, with leisure and business travel largely off the table at the moment...

At the start of this year, you would have got very, very long odds on the prospect of UK-wide lockdowns, mandatory...

2020 has been the strangest of years, and not particularly pleasant either! Here on the Costa del Sol, our buyer market...

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

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

Works to restore and convert a Grade II listed rectory building into separate homes are progressing well, with two new houses...

On PIT, we’ve asked this question quite a lot in recent months, with John Lewis entering the Build to Rent market...

This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at the latest auction results from iamsold and SDL Property Auctions, as well...

The Property Investors Awards – the annual event celebrating excellence in property investing, which is normally held at a swanky London...

In the decades since Portugal became one of the go-to destinations for British holidaymakers, second home owners and investors, one part...

A leading Manchester city centre property developer has been granted planning permission to convert Mindel House and neighbouring Bloom Street into...

Claremont Property Group has been granted approval for the regeneration of 55 Holloway Head, with the historic ‘flatted factory’ in Birmingham...

It’s threatened to be a thing for quite some time, but for one reason or another co-living has failed to catch...

In recent months, we’ve covered a number of stories extolling the virtues of converting retail units to residential in light of...

In Part 1, we asked whether other major retailers will follow John Lewis’s lead in moving into the world of building...

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

Research by TrustedLand and LandTech has revealed that more than half of the UK’s small and mid-sized property developers expect to...

Build to Rent (BTR) has been one of the property sector’s fastest-growing marketplaces in recent years – and continues to grow,...

I have been a developer and landlord for over 25 years and, for my sins, ended up owning an estates and...

We have seen over the past few months a real government impetus to regain lost ground, since the economic effects of...

It’s strategically located for easy access to London Heathrow Terminals, is close to a number of the stations on the incoming...

Covid-19 has furthered the decline of the high street and led to major city centres becoming virtual ghost towns as office...

Work on a former vacant office building at Gosforth’s Regent Centre is three months ahead of schedule and is due to...

Initial work to restore a historic building to its former glory and bring luxury living space to Stretford, Greater Manchester, has...