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Waypoint has launched its UK Affordable Single-Family Housing Fund focused on new build, affordable single-family housing.  The vehicle will be kick-started with...

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

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

Working from home gives employees autonomy over where they choose to work. Those lucky enough to work from home five days...

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

Development lender, Silbury Finance, has provided a £73.8 million senior debt facility to North Star Investment Management, a creative property asset...

Buy-to-let purchase activity saw a spike in June, according to new data from Legal & General’s SmartCriteria tool, which has been...

This week, Property Investor Today looks at research that suggests auctions aren’t as popular as they seem. However, the latest news from...

The UK's Build to Rent (BTR) sector continues to grow and evolve, which arguably makes the role of the market's trade...

It is no secret that the UK is currently facing a chronic shortage of affordable housing, at a time when incomes...

This week, PIT delves into the latest in property development news – from the new partnership between ilke Homes and Man...

With new research finding over 10 million UK adults are considering becoming a holiday let landlord and the volume and total...

Prime Central London (PCL) was hit harder by most than the pandemic, as international buyers stayed away (due to Covid travel...

The property market has weathered the COVID storm better than many sectors over the last couple of years. The crisis has...

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has outlined the key areas it believes the government and the industry should focus on...

Zero-carbon housebuilder Etopia Homes has pinpointed the towns and cities in England which could make the best use of the government’s...

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

First Homes, a new solution to the first-time buyer crisis, will be relevant to the majority of new schemes from December...

In this guest piece, Ufuk Bahar - founder of multi-disciplinary architecture practice, Urbanist Architecture, which specialises in maximising the ROI and viability of...

In this development roundup, ilke Homes gathers significant funding in a pledge to deliver 10,000 homes in the next five years,...

Global travel is on the mend as the UK has opened its doors to international countries that meet the government’s criteria....

If seaside living is high up on your property wish list, the latest research by Warwick Estates could make your property...

In this article, building society The Cumberland - specialists when it comes to holiday let lending - offer expert input on...

It’s famous for football, oranges, paella, the Las Fallas festival and its beaches, but Valencia might sometimes be overlooked by investors who...

The Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) sector is an incredibly exciting industry to be in right now with a very promising future...

Has the post-lockdown staycation boom inspired you to invest in a holiday let property?  Here, Grant Seaton, senior business lending manager...

Furnished holiday lets offer tax breaks, but owners need to tread carefully, Handelsbanken Wealth Management (HWM) has warned. Soaring demand for holiday...

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

Over-55s used housing equity to clear more than £612 million of unsecured debt in 2020, new data from Key has revealed. Credit...

Principle Estate Management has welcomed government plans for new legislation that takes fire safety even more seriously. The Home Office has announced...

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

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

With the UK enduring its third national lockdown, Property Investor Today speaks with Michael Taggart, chief executive officer of luxury homebuilder...

In Part 1, we asked a number of industry experts if the construction industry should remain open at the current time,...

Despite 2020 being a turbulent year for many businesses across the UK, the property market actually saw a mini-industry boom. As...

With the transition period for the UK leaving the EU ending in a matter of weeks, there is no doubt that...

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

The property predictions for 2021 continue to roll in, as the sector looks ahead to the upcoming 12 months. Here, we get...

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed so many things for so many people. For international real estate agents in Spain, it has...

When you're disposing of a property, you’ll have to take certain things into consideration, from choosing an estate agent to sell...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, many of the countries worse hit – reliant on tourism and outward investment...

The top five areas across the UK which are prime for major development have been revealed by global property consultancy Knight...

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

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

At the start of 2020, the French property market had been flying, with demand for prestige property leading the way.  Sales were at...

Purchasing a property abroad is rarely a straightforward process, even at the best of times, but at present there are even...

In recent years, there has been considerable controversy over the use of ‘no DSS’ in homes being listed for let, with...

Harvey Raybould is a UK property investor and owner of the Creative Property Group (CPG), a Kent-based property firm which aims...

Until now, self-build has been something of a niche market – for the brave and risk-taking. It’s received national prominence through...

A private island off the west coast of Ireland has been sold off-market for over £5 million to an unnamed Ultra-High-Net-Worth...

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...

The latest industry research and market commentary shows that the buy-to-let sector is showing signs of recovery following the strain of...

Babrul Matin is the co-founder of the Islamic Investor, a specialist investment company which co-invests alongside real estate experts in the...

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a considerable amount of uncertainty and worry since it took hold in Europe in early March,...

The whole world is currently dealing with the challenge of Covid-19. Huge government support is being promised on a scale even...

Covid-19 and the subsequent government lockdown will result in a loss of 526,000 home sales in 2020, according to further analysis...

Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which is causing such destruction and disruption to all our lives, new tax legislation is still...

With the government pledging to put an end to pet bans, UK-based insurance broker Towergate Insurance has revealed the top 10...

The rental sector across the UK has grown hugely in recent years, with high house prices and affordability issues meaning many...

On a rainy Thursday at the end of last year – the day of the general election, in fact – Property...

On Monday, this guest piece from Iain Brown at Aria Resorts analysed why the UK holiday property sector is attracting huge...

Labour’s London Assembly spokesperson for housing has welcomed new advertising guidelines published by Transport for London (TfL) banning adverts on its...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMA) has become one of the fastest-growing sectors in property, according to online auction service LetsBid...

Technology is developing constantly, which is steadily changing the scope of property purchasing both domestically and abroad. Zillios.com is seeking to re-define the...

The number of holiday lets are on the rise, according to Bournecoast Holiday Agents and financial consultants Elite Financial. The firms say...

New research from online mortgage broker Property Master has revealed that the cost of the majority of fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages appear...

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

Private sector buy-to-let landlords sometimes get a bad rap from renters, who blame property investors for fuelling a housing boom which...

The number of 35 to 54-year-olds renting a home has risen by 15% in the least three years, according to new...

PropTech has been something of a buzzword in recent years – a rising trend which sees internet-savvy startups launch digital and...

A property investment company, One & Only Pro, has launched its online offering after spending two years developing its complex algorithms...

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

Average asking prices of newly-marketed property show a fall of 2.3% in August as new sellers launch a ‘late summer sale’,...

Property transactions in the Balearic Islands have more than doubled in the last five years, according to estate agents Porta Mondial. The...

Originally a word used to describe population changes in London, gentrification is now widely used to describe positive change in an...

Britain's withdrawal from the European Union is the biggest challenge facing the UK property sector, according to a survey of investors,...

Shojin Property Partners has secured over £2.1 million for development projects following the launch of its crowdfunding platform six months ago. The...

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...

Central London commercial investment levels hit £11.5bn during the first seven months of 2017, marking a 24% rise on the corresponding...

The bridging loans sector has markedly raised its profile in recent years. It is also becoming better understood by property investors,...

A growing number of property investors are turning to alternative finance options to overcome tougher mainstream mortgage lending criteria and stress...

Many young people are being left with little alternative but to live with their parents to save enough money for a...

The recent slowdown in UK house prices suggests that the market is cooling, but very few experts are surprised. The latest house...

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

House prices in Sydney dipped for the first time in 18 months in April, according to new data, as regulators continue...

The bridging sector in the UK has witnessed five-fold growth in lending since 2011, as property professionals have increasingly considered bridging...

With banks in Australia continuing to tighten their investor lending criteria, a growing number of investors looking to invest in property...

Overseas investors and British expats are finding it increasingly difficult to secure mortgages in the UK to fund property acquisitions, according...

Asking prices for residential properties listed for sale in England and Wales increased by 2% in the month to early February, the...

UK house prices may have ended last year around £15,000 higher on average than when the year started, but the signs...

While buy-to-let lenders come to terms with fresh interventions imposed by the Prudential Regulation Authority, designed to subject buy-to-let landlords to stricter...

The number of commercial property loans being written off has dropped to its lowest level since the credit crunch, fresh figures...

People over the age of 55 are being frozen out of new mortgages, according to a new study. Stricter lending criteria means many...

England's first garden villages have been proposed for 14 sites across the country along with three larger garden towns in Buckinghamshire,...

Richard Barber, director at Prime Central London estate agency W.A.Ellis, part of the JLL Group, offers his thoughts on what property market...

Mortgage lending was down 11% in October compared with the corresponding month last year with £10.5bn borrowed for residential property purchases...

Shelter is calling for greater protection for tenants after new research by the housing charity found that 43% of homes in...

Dubai, along with the rest of the UAE, would have a better chance of attracting long-term property investors if they provided...