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New data from Rightmove reveals that Carluke in Scotland is Great Britain’s fastest selling market, with sellers in the area finding...

For first time buyers, renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK according to new data from the Halifax. London, the...

New research claims investors who buy at auction can bag a bargain for 43% less than the price on the wider...

The Sunday Times has published its latest ‘Best Places’ guide - often considered a pointer to up-and-coming locations which could be...

The director of two companies which operated an unauthorised property investment scheme costing investors more than £57 million has been banned...

Based on average house prices in the UK, a correlation has been found that properties with a higher Energy Performance Certificate...

Total value of UK housing fell marginally in 2023 by 0.3 per cent or £27 billion, but remains significantly higher than...

An investment consultancy has produced new data analysing the complex regional differences between rental returns. Analysts at Invezz examined data provided by...

Commercial property prices have shown strong year on year growth of as high as 21 per cent across some regions of...

It looks like investors in mainstream UK homes who anticipated losing capital values in the 2023 may have been mistaken -...

Two leading house price indices have shown recent rises - both the Nationwide last month and now the Halifax. The latter says...

A prominent investment platform says the recent small house price rises recorded by both the Nationwide and the Halifax are merely...

Latest data from The Deposit Protection Service shows that average UK monthly rents for Q3 2023 were £1,121.46: a rise of...

New research by digital mortgage lender Molo shows where in England and Wales offers the highest and lowest rental yields.  The current...

England and Wales have seen rising rental yields for the third quarter in a row, with the total yield up 1.0...

New research by lending service Octane Capital reveals that the average buy to let investor has seen the money they owe...

Market analysis by debt advisory firm Sirius Property Finance reveals the North East is currently England’s mixed-use property hotspot, providing opportunities...

Here Richard O’Neill - managing director of lettings at Romans Estate Agents - advises investors how to recognise and optimise yield for...

The North of England is outperforming the South for both capital appreciation and rental yields.  Sourced Franchise has analysed annual changes in...

Arguably the most comprehensive source of market snapshot data about the UK housing market comes from the TwentyCi consultancy. In addition to...

Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, this week released its latest Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q4 2022 rental yields across England...

The total market value of foreign-owned homes in England and Wales currently stands at £90.7 billion, research from Benham and Reeves...

PIT looks at the latest trends in the UK rental market and investment strategies for buy-to-let landlords and investors. Revolution Brokers uncovers the...

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

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

With the Build to Rent (BTR) sector no longer a new phenomenon, and fast becoming a well-established part of the PRS,...

Maintenance in the UK rented sector totals a whopping £30 billion a year, according to new research. Property maintenance solution provider, Help...

In just a year’s time, the average UK tenant could be paying £800 more a year in rent, research by rental...

With energy bills due to increase by 54% next month, research from specialist property lending experts Octane Capital has revealed that...

Two areas in the UK are still feeling the impact of the 2008 recession despite strong growth in new-build property values,...

In the second instalment of our International Women’s Day 2022 series, PIT takes a closer look at a new study that uncovers...

The UK construction sector saw its fastest rate of growth in eight months during February despite a problematic pandemic period, the...

Research from Octane Capital has revealed which areas of the UK rental market are driving growth in rental stock availability, as...

A significant proportion of those renting a home would like to buy it from their landlord if circumstances allowed, new research...

Cornwall Council has entered into a landmark deal to buy SoloHaus ‘micro homes’ from The Hill Group to help tackle the...

Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge have been named as the best cities for landlords and investors to invest in for 2022, according...

Throughout this week, Property Investor Today has been exploring the investment potential of the locations that sit on the controversial and...

Sellers who have upgraded the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of their home to a C, from a D, E or...

The North West of England has held the title for buy to let property hotspot for some time now. However, property...

New research has found that the proportion of UK property transactions accounted for by the new-build sector hit its lowest level in...

In this article, Reece Mennie, an award-winning entrepreneur and CEO of HJ Collection and Hunter Jones, explains why many people who...

Despite the bounce-back of the property market, Housing and Jobs & Economic prosperity are recorded as the worst-performing measure for the second...

With the property market undergoing tumultuous changes since the onset of the pandemic, recent figures from A-Plan Insurance has highlighted the...

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...

When it comes to investing in property, strong rental yields are all-important if you want to make decent money out of...

One of the biggest frustrations for leasehold homeowners – aside from factors like doubling ground rents and a sense that they...

The level of new homes reaching the market has fallen by more than 32,000 across England year-on-year, research by StripeHomes has...

Few would disagree that it has been a difficult year for the residential lettings sector. With the market effectively frozen for...

The coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly brought about some changes to our everyday lives, with remote working skyrocketing in recent months as...

Last week's announcement of a stamp duty holiday on the first £500,000 of property purchases has prompted a rise in buyers...

More renters are saving to go on holiday (33%) or for an emergency fund (31%) than for a deposit to buy...

The amount of net income required to cover the cost of renting has increased 16.8% in the last two decades to...

Terraced homeowners in London have seen the highest price growth of any property type across the whole of England and Wales...

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

Soaring rents are tempting investors back into the capital's lettings market, according to September’s Home.co.uk Asking Price Index. A revitalisation of the...

Landlords in the UK are spending nearly £4.7 billion a year on their rental properties (an average of £3,134 each), according...

There has been a dramatic fall in the number of cash buyers in London over the last year, according to Apropos...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  My name is Daniel and I’m a director at...

An in-depth analysis from Zoopla has reported the trends in the affordability of private renting across the UK since 2007. The study...

A third of homeowners who have moved house since the referendum in June 2016 say Brexit was behind their decision to...

Parking is the most desired feature of rental homes across England, Wales and Scotland, according to new research by Zoopla. The study...

Average overall price growth in England and Wales has slipped into the red, according to Home.co.uk’s February Asking Price Index. This...

A recent poll suggests that the majority of UK property investors are set to grow their portfolios in 2019, despite a...

London landlords are leaving the market in their droves, according to ARLA Propertymark’s December Private Rented Sector (PRS) report. The figures compare...

House price growth across UK cities reduced steadily throughout 2018, according to new analysis carried out as part of Zoopla’s UK...

More landlords will leave the private rented sector in the next year as annual rental price growth has been falling or...

Online estate agency yieldit has unveiled the best buy-to-let locations in England and Wales. The new data, gathered from the agency's current...

Reduced demand in the market has led to price-cutting becoming the new norm, according to home.co.uk. Its ‘October Asking Price Index’ recorded...

Some 18% of landlords said they intended to remain in the buy-to-let (BTL) market indefinitely, with the same number of portfolio...

Research has revealed that London rents increased by 0.10% in the year to June 2018, the first annual rental rise for...

New research has uncovered the UK's best investment locations ranked by rental yield. The top performer is Burnley, with an average...

There are 19 towns and cities that have witnessed property prices growing by more than 250% since the turn of the...

Some 84% of British homeowners expect property prices in their area to rise over the next six months, up 14% from...

Landlord confidence across a range of measures remained stable or increased in the first quarter of 2018 compared with the end...

The average rent for a property in London fell 0.27% in the year to April, weighing down the resilient rental growth...

While home prices may have nudged up this month across England and Wales, market conditions in London and the South East...

House prices in the North and West have surged amidst improving market conditions, according to the latest figures from Home.co.uk. This growth...

The London property market continues to struggle as the number of properties on the market increases while prices deflate, according to...

The average cost of renting a home in the UK is now rising for the first time in almost two years,...

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) has found that average UK rents increased at less than half the rate during 2017...

Landbay’s latest Rental Index has revealed that commuters in nearly half of London’s most popular commuter towns face a greater overall...

Rental price inflation has now lagged behind general rate of inflation, despite average rents across the UK rising by 0.7% in...

The latest LendInvest Buy-to-Let Index report has revealed that Manchester is the top buy-to-let destination in the country. Published every quarter, the...

St Albans has been ranked as the most expensive location for a family to upsize from a two-bed flat to a...

One in 10 adults in this country now own a second home - either to live in themselves or as buy-to-let...

Growth in UK property prices increased at a slower pace of 4.9% in June, down from 5% a month earlier, according...

The Guild Auction, a new platform designed to enable property investors to acquire and offload property under a virtual hammer online,...

Growth in residential property prices in the UK continued to slow, but the cost of the average home still increased by...

Most parts of England and Wales saw rents rise in the run-up to the recent general election with yields stable at...

Britain’s housing market is once again proving resilient despite political turmoil caused by Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general...

House prices in England and Wales returned to growth in May, pushing the average property value to a new all-time high...

More British homeowners trust the Conservatives more than Labour to fix the country’s ‘broken’ housing market, according to a new poll. With...

Home insurance costs in the UK are rising as a consequence of higher property taxes, according to new analysis. Average property insurance...

The residential property market in the UK tends to be cyclical, moving in upward cycles of boom, bust and stability, and...

Annual house price growth continues to slow, as affordability issues deter many prospective homebuyers. With 2017 proving to be a rather challenging time...

Demand for short-term loans continued to increase in the first quarter of the year, with more property investors turning to bridging...

Residential property prices continued to increase at a modest pace in April, the latest figures show. The average home in England and...

Asking prices increased across most of England and Wales between March and April, with the exception of London where values continued...

The price of the average property in England and Wales broke through the £300,000 barrier in March, following a 0.5% rise...

More than nine months on from the historic Brexit vote, and home buyers are now paying 1.3% on average more for...