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

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

We're back with another instalment of Women in Property Investment, and this time we catch up with Helen Barlow, sales and...

An £80 million purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Hackney Wick has been granted planning permission, at the same time securing the...

The UK holiday property sector is a growth industry which is attracting huge interest from property investors, says Iain Brown of...

Here at Angels Sales & Lettings, we are always delighted to sponsor great local initiatives and clubs as part of our...

A farm from the 1800s has been converted into a holiday lettings business at the heart of the Dorset Downs thanks...

With stories of housing crises crossing borders and seas, politicians, policymakers, architects, developers and housebuilders from across the world have been...

Central London has seen a 55% increase in demand from family offices, real estate funds and large investors looking to bulk-buy...

The latest statistics from Cifas revealed that mortgage fraud is up 5%, but what exactly is it and what can lenders,...

Newton Property, one of Scotland’s largest property factors, has announced an emergency building eco-improvements fund up to £100,000 per eligible property. Newton...

A former Shredded Wheat factory in Welwyn Garden City is ready to be transformed thanks to a £21.2 million loan from...

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...

Claremont Property Group recently completed work on a Grade II listed Carnegie library in the West Midlands town of Stourbridge, converting ‘The...

A new index to help Britain’s private landlords and investors ‘benchmark the performance of their residential property investments’ has been created...

Residential properties in London are being mis-sold on average by £33,800, according to PropTech firm Spec. A new report by Spec claims...

With Build to Rent the fastest-growing trend in the rental sector, Property Investor Today took the opportunity to visit one of...

Property investment platform Propio.com is set to launch a property ISA ahead of its April deadline. Part of a new breed of...

Nearly 40% of British holidaymakers have the funds to buy a holiday home and plan to do so in 2019, according...

Legal & General has recently exchanged contracts on a new Build to Rent (BTR) site in Chelmsford City Centre on behalf...

Who are you? Paul Staley What does it say on your business card? Director of PRS at SDL Property Management. What is SDL Property Management? As...

British citizens have long had a love affair with the Spanish property market and like any love affair; it’s had its...

Over the course of this year, the economy of Cyprus has begun to stabilise and confidence started to return to the...

How can effective fire risk management help protect the value of your property investment?   When investing in property, potential ROI or yield...

The number of landlords looking to remortgage has reached an all-time high, Paragon’s latest Financial Adviser Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index has...

Property investors now operate in a truly global environment. Just as UK-based investors can look at the great returns offered by...

It's not just first-time buyers relying on financial help to purchase a property. According to new research from Lloyds Bank, second-steppers...

International interest in Montenegro property has doubled in the year since the country joined NATO, according to IM Property Group. On 5...

The third Private Capital Survey from Cluttons, which details the results of a survey of 250 wealthy property investors in the...

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

The amount spent on European property by Britons has increased by two thirds. That is according to data released by international...

Private equity firm Cogress has secured £4.1 million of equity to fund a new mixed-use property development in Surbiton, Kingston upon...

Lenders absorbed more costs to keep their rates competitive in the last quarter of 2017, according to the latest results of...

The UK economy was bolstered by more than £7 billion in 2017 thanks to Britain’s older homeowner’s releasing equity for retirement,...

Private equity firm Cogress has underwritten £2.5 million in equity to fund a new mixed-use property development in South West London. Eager...

Property Partner, the world’s first property stock exchange, recently saw individual investors raising £2,992,800 of equity to buy a Purpose-Built Student...

Students from overseas made up approximately 75% of applicants in Prime Central London (PCL) over the past few months, according to...

The number of agricultural to residential conversions in the UK has dropped from 574 in the third quarter (Q3) of 2016...

Mint Bridging has pitched itself as a third-generation lender after launching its new brand and identity focusing on handcrafted loans. Since forming...

Last week saw the official launch of Homegrown, the UK’s first residential property investment platform focused solely on the construction of...

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

Equity release continues to grow among UK homeowners in the UK with activity hitting more than £700m in the second quarter...

Ezylet, a property portal aimed at private landlords, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Invesdor, seeking fresh funds to grow...

Office take-up in Aberdeen in the first half of this year has exceeded the entire 2016 figure, according to Savills. The international...

Auctions provide an excellent way to buy property competitively, with a number of great deals often secured under the hammer. However,...

BrickCoin, a blockchain financial platform backed entirely by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) has unveiled its vision for a ‘real estate-backed’...

International buyers of residential property in the U.S. may not necessarily have a major impact on the overall housing market, but...

A growing number of property investors unable to secure finance from banks to buy property are turning to alternative finance providers...

There was a sharp rise in the number of home buyers using cash to buy property last year, with mortgage lending...

The Kuflink Group is offering investors an opportunity to earn up to 6% a year through its peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform,...

More than 100 investors with a diverse and experienced investment history have collectively invested in the region of £1m in a...

The property market tends to be cyclical, when you study property markets from across the globe, it is clear that the...

The size of the retirement lending market in the UK looks set to soar over the next 10 years as lending...

The debate between property or pensions has been discussed for many years, with the changes to mortgage interest and finance costs...

From the vantage point of the rostrum, in unprecedented economic times with historically low interest rates and persistently low inflation, the...

It has been confirmed that the probate fee structure is set to change in May 2017 to a tiered system whereby...

A lack of funding and uncertainty over Brexit contributed to a sharp decline in the volume of office to residential conversions...

The core US property market has produced its lowest annualised return since 2009, fresh data from the National Council of Real...

Property investors have raised £1 million for a development in Knightsbridge in just 71 hours.  The row of five townhouses and four...

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

An online property service has launched a major crowdfunding campaign to fuel expansion plans. No Agent, launched three months ago, claims to...

With significantly more homes required to meet the needs and aspirations of Scotland’s growing population, the home building industry north of...

Allsop’s final commercial auction of the year will see 237 properties located throughout the UK go under the hammer, with guide...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of overseas investors taking advantages of some ‘compelling income returns’ in Scotland,...

Despite the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, London remains the “most popular European city” for institutional property investors, but...

Bitex Home has announced that it will be holding a residential property investment seminar this week in aid of LOROS – a hospice...

More than a quarter of interest-only mortgage borrowers in the UK may struggle to repay their home loans, new research shows.  Interest-only...

The government is being urged to take fresh steps to tackle the shortage of homes by incentivising landowners and developers to increase...

British investors who lost big deposits in the Spanish property crash have been given fresh hope of getting back their money. As...

The Buy-to-let market is booming in Spain with as many as one in three homes in the country’s main cities now...

A significant drop in the value of sterling has seen a number of Europeans move to secure UK property investments while...

ILG Capital GmbH has launched a new German retail real estate fund which is aimed at institutional investors.  The open-ended special AIF,...

Up to 350 lower-cost residential units, including 150 affordable properties, will be developed in Croydon, after a property fund managed by...

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

With the outlook for savers looking grim, almost half of over 45 year-old homeowners - equivalent to just over 6m UK...

Investors may have been have been barred from cashing in their assets in several big commercial property funds in recent weeks...

Commercial property prices in London could fall by up to 10% in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the EU,...

A chronic shortage of properties continues to push house prices upwards across Barcelona, according to a new report. The report from CBRE reveals...

A major Chinese manufacturing firm will invest more than £1bn in Sheffield over the next 60 years, including around £220m by...

International property investors are poised to pile into the UK and take advantage of favourable buying conditions by snapping up a...

Allsop’s latest property auction, held last week at The Park Lane Hotel in London showed strong appetite from investors for commercial property,...

The Brexit fallout is testing the faith of property investors in the UK which could lead to greater interest in US...

Aberdeen Asset Management lifted the suspension of its UK property fund yesterday in an attempt to control withdrawals following Britain’s decision...

Farmland values in England have stabilised after falling at their fastest pace in at least 12 years, but the long-term direction...

UK property shares fell sharply yesterday amid growing uncertainty following the EU referendum vote and the suspension of trading in three...

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

People using crowdfunding to invest in property should be wary of the tax consequences of raising money through this increasingly popular platform,...

The pound rose 1% against the dollar yesterday and also strengthened against the euro amid signs that the 'remain' camp is pulling...

Northern Ireland’s commercial property market has enjoyed a strong start to the year thanks in part to healthy investor demand for...

Lawyers are increasingly banking on property to fund all or some of their retirement, according to new research. Some 29% of those...

Former employee Andrew Screen has been appointed as a Senior Director by CBRE. He will work within the company’s Investment and...

New research has revealed that a third of renters in the UK currently pay no money into a savings account in...

Almost 300,000 landlords have failed to protect their tenants' deposits, totalling over £500 million of unprotected funds, according to a new...

Leasehold ownership, which governs a significant proportion of prime central London’s residential offering, is an ancient legislation, dating back to the...

New data from leading personal property investments company Experience Invest has revealed that inhabitants of Liverpool are most likely to invest...

Unless agreed otherwise by underwriters in very particular circumstances, landlord insurance policies will stipulate that the insured property is in a...

Research by equity release lender more 2 life has revealed that almost a third of over-55s would rather use property wealth...

Research from housebuilder Barratt Homes has revealed that savings accounts continue to be the most popular haven for investors in the...

Property crowdfunding platform The House Crowd has secured £700,000 from investors, only a month after the launch of their share offer....

According to new research from Keepmoat, Brandon is the most profitable destination for retirees looking to invest their pension funds in...

One of the world's best-known investment management firms and a premium developer have announced the completion of a deal that will...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched a Buy to Let offset mortgage through London & Country. The mortgage is a 2.65...

A property listed on residential crowdfunding platform Property Partner reached its funding target in a record 35 minutes, the website has...

Recent research has revealed that more than half of landlords are looking to expand their property portfolio in 2015. This is...