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![Election Jitters means growth forecast cut for Prime Central London](/upload/images/24%2005%2031%20%205.jpg)
The political uncertainty hanging over the UK property market has come into sharper focus since Rishi Sunak announced a general election,...
31 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental stock availability up 12.1% with London seeing biggest surge](/upload/images/24%2005%2002%20%2004.jpg)
The latest research by London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has shown that rental stock availability is up 12% year on...
02 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Invest in a Fraction of a Travelodge Hotel - new investment model](/upload/images/23%2012%2012%204.jpg)
Real estate finance and investment house TAB has launched a new fractional ownership model called TAB Property - and it’s purchased...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![New Market Snapshot shows yields rising across all regions](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2010%2024%2001.jpg/23%2010%2024%2001__400x400.jpg)
England and Wales have seen rising rental yields for the third quarter in a row, with the total yield up 1.0...
24 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Nation’s new-build homebuyer hotspots revealed as London ranks just 24th in the list](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/Construction-400x310.png)
Research by Alliance Fund, the end to end real estate fund, has revealed that while Greater London may have seen the...
02 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental yields up in majority of regions](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Buy-to-let-3-400x310.png)
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...
26 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![A private affair - London 'must embrace' private capital to build homes, says report](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/LondonPropertySector-400x310.png)
The debate over whether private or public investment should be prioritised when it comes to building new homes continues to divide...
05 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Yoo Capital Fund II L.P secure a £30m investment from The London Fund](/upload/images/Developments%20%26%20Projects/Yoo400x310.jpg)
The London Fund “the Fund” has committed to a £30 million investment to the Yoo Fund, a real estate fund managed by...
31 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Could modular homes solve the housing crisis?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/ModularHomes-1-400x310.jpg)
The average UK house price hit a fresh high in May, rising for the 11th month in a row, according to...
08 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Major firms continue to invest in the PRS – what’s the latest?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-1-400x310.jpg)
The UK private rented sector has become increasingly attractive to institutional, large-scale investors in recent years as returns on investment elsewhere...
29 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Bradford – City of Culture 2025 crowned the UK’s number one yield hotspot](/upload/images/Locations/BradfordProfile_400x310.png)
The crown of UK’s number one yield hotspot goes to Bradford, according to new research compiled by PropertyData and Sequre Property...
22 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Development – partnerships, revenue growth and Hong Kong investment](/upload/images/Site%20logos/DevelopmentRoundup-400x310.png)
This week, PIT delves into the latest in property development news – from the new partnership between ilke Homes and Man...
25 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Why suburban Build to Rent is the one to watch](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Houses-Row-2019-400x310.jpg)
The Build to Rent (BTR) market has traditionally focused primarily on young professionals, with developments generally comprising apartment blocks with bolt-ons...
25 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![New homes in Southall - what are the plans?](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/build-to-rent400x310.png)
The site of a former car park in Southall is being transformed into housing, with work underway to build 125 new...
28 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Planning to buy a luxury new build? Watch out for the leasehold…](/upload/images/Locations/PrimeLondonHousesArc-400x310.jpg)
In this guest piece, Hugh Wigzell, senior associate at Farrer & Co, lists three issues that property buyers and investors should watch out for...
02 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insight - Chinese buyers increasingly looking for UK investment opportunities](/upload/images/Locations/China400x310.png)
The ‘potent’ mix of the Covid-19 pandemic and the slow demise of the Evergrande Group, one of China’s largest development companies, is...
04 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![HUB and MARK agree on partnership for new BTR scheme in Birmingham](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/build-to-rent400x310.png)
Residential developer HUB and pan-European real estate investment manager MARK have acquired 2 Snow Hill Plaza in Birmingham from a global...
21 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Ending on a high note – homebuyer demand stood strong during Q4](/upload/images/library/CoupleMovingHome-400x310.jpg)
Homebuyer demand in the UK remained robust for much of Q4 2021, sitting at an average of 65.6%, up by 0.9%...
05 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![First Homes - what is going on with the scheme?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-housing1400x310.png)
The First Homes scheme, one of the flagship housing schemes announced by the government last year as Boris Johnson finally tried...
22 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rental yields in the capital – East London continues to lead the way](/upload/images/Locations/GreaterLondon-400x310.jpg)
Those investors looking to join the pandemic bounce-back may be asking where the best places in London are to consider for...
19 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Q&A with Sean Gavin, Operations Director at Berkeley South East London](/upload/images/Locations/London400x310.jpg)
In this Q&A, Property Investor Today speaks to Sean Gavin, Operations Director at Berkeley South East London, for his thoughts on...
19 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Renters are willing to pay over £1k more a year for smart home tech](/upload/images/library/SmartHomeTechnology-400x310-min.jpeg)
A fifth of UK renters claim they would fork out up to 10% more in rent each month for smart features...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Athena House is the first residential development launched on Instagram](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/horley%20400%20x%20310.png)
Property Experts, a Greater London developer, has launched its development Athena House in Horley, Surrey, exclusively on Instagram. The development is a...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Quintain’s Rajesh Shah – what will Covid’s impact be on BTR long-term?](/img/default/pit.png)
Quintain Living, formerly known as Tipi, is the Build to Rent (BTR) brand of well-known developer Quintain and has made a...
21 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Development – multi-generational living and stamp duty free homes](/img/default/pit.png)
Inspired Villages, operator of retirement villages established by Legal & General, has achieved planning permission to deliver a £100 million retirement...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Q&A - should a bottom-up approach be used to revive UK high streets?](/img/default/pit.png)
One of the biggest debates raging at the moment concerns the future of the high street, which has been hit harder...
28 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Buy-to-let yields 2021: where are the best postcodes in London?](/img/default/pit.png)
As a landlord or investor, yield is one of the things you will be most interested in to ensure you generate a...
02 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Market insight – homes for rent are letting 30% faster since Covid](/img/default/pit.png)
The pandemic continues to shape the UK property market, with a growing disparity between inner city and outer city residential rents,...
26 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - the capital’s largest BTR development unveiled by Greystar](/img/default/pit.png)
London’s largest purpose-built rental community – Greenford Quay in the London Borough of Ealing - is ready to be unveiled by...
12 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Beauty and the East – Barking tops London’s rental yield table](/img/default/pit.png)
East London offers the best rental yields in the capital, according to the latest data-analysis by estate agent Portico. Its interactive rental...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Is Covid-19 actually harming the buy-to-let market?](/img/default/pit.png)
With the pandemic heavily impacting interest rates, people are searching for a more lucrative return on their investments. Research by insurance and...
26 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Dev roundup – strategic partnerships and steady project progress](/img/default/pit.png)
A joint venture between Audley Group, Schroders Real Estate and Octopus Real Estate has secured a £47 million development loan for...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![How has the prime London market fared in 2021 so far?](/img/default/pit.png)
The annual price decline in prime central London (PCL) was 4.3% for the third consecutive month in January, while average rents...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property news – issues with regeneration and a multi-million Indian development](/img/default/pit.png)
In this news roundup, Property Investor Today explores how the government’s ‘build back better’ mantra is being thwarted by data issues,...
29 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Roundup: Brexit causes decline in homes for overseas firms plus co-living growth](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of properties owned by overseas companies in England and Wales has fallen by 4,000 since the EU referendum in...
29 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – where are the UK’s property value hotspots?](/img/default/pit.png)
With the average homeowner staying put in their property for 23 years, mortgage loan company Ocean Finance has uncovered the top...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Why international investors are looking at UK’s tier 2 cities for returns](/img/default/pit.png)
The UK's second tier cities are very often more appealing to international investors in terms of guranteed rental returns - as...
30 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Part 1: retail to residential – has John Lewis set a precedent?](/img/default/pit.png)
The high street was already struggling before the pandemic, but Covid-19 has perhaps sent it into terminal decline. High streets in major...
28 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – where is the best place to sell a property in England or Wales?](/img/default/pit.png)
If you’re an investor with an asset you’re keen to get rid of, you’ll be eager to know where the best...
23 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – why investors should be considering Preston](/img/default/pit.png)
Earlier this year, we ran a number of stories on Preston’s burgeoning reputation as a property investment hotbed, including one about...
19 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – German real estate investment company expands into UK](/img/default/pit.png)
A Berlin-based investment company has continued its expansion by establishing a presence in the UK. LINUS Capital finances real estate projects with...
28 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![How to sell your home before 2020 is through](/img/default/pit.png)
For most homeowners, the thought of selling a house in 2020 is anxiety-inducing. To some, it feels like tempting fate. However,...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Landlords – now is the perfect time to let your property](/img/default/pit.png)
With activity in the market continuing to rise and the number new tenancies back to pre-pandemic levels, landlords are enjoying strong...
07 September 2020
From: Sponsored Content
![The birth of Build to Rent – how did it become the PRS’s biggest trend?](/img/default/pit.png)
Before the pandemic struck, Build to Rent (BTR) was undeniably the property market’s fastest-growing trend. Many expect it to recover quickly,...
26 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Development – major schemes at Tottenham Hale & Jewellery Quarter](/img/default/pit.png)
The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t put a hold on major new developments and regeneration projects taking place across the UK. Here, we...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rental growth continues following property market restart in May](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest rental market data from HomeLet shows that average annual rents increased last month following the market officially reopening on...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan – what has his record been on housing?](/img/default/pit.png)
While the coronavirus outbreak has led to the postponement of all local and mayoral elections in England for a year to...
20 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Casting a spell on buyers - new homes at Watford Cross set to launch](/img/default/pit.png)
Weston Homes will tomorrow launch Watford Cross, a £44 million scheme in Watford, Greater London, which is set for completion in...
05 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![With Brexit upcoming, should UK investors be alarmed?](/img/default/pit.png)
In this guest piece, Yaroslava Tkalich, chief marketing officer of Smartlands - a global investment platform for the tokenization of real economy assets by issuing...
27 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Development update: new homes in Bedfordshire, Bucks and Newcastle](/img/default/pit.png)
A flourishing SME housebuilder has purchased 15 acres of residential development land in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire. Storey Homes aims to go head-to-head...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rental market remained frosty throughout December](/img/default/pit.png)
The UK rental market remained stable in December 2019, according to Goodlord’s Rental Index. Average rents stayed close to levels recorded in...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Top performing property types of the decade revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Terraced homeowners in London have seen the highest price growth of any property type across the whole of England and Wales...
08 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![The regeneration effect – new research suggests it results in strong price growth](/img/default/pit.png)
Homes close to regeneration zones attract an average 3.6% more price growth per year than properties in the wider local authority...
29 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![London regeneration: what is the Canada Water Masterplan?](/img/default/pit.png)
In the latest part of our series on London’s regeneration hotspots, Property Investor Today finds out more about the dramatic plans...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Do regeneration projects need to consider their cultural responsibilities?](/img/default/pit.png)
In the last few months, Property Investor Today has run a series on London’s largest regeneration projects, many of which include...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![The cost of living near London’s 342 outstanding schools revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
The average London property price near an ‘outstanding’ state primary school is £693,849, according to research from Portico. Schools rated as ‘outstanding’...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Green shoots of recovery in London despite Brexit](/img/default/pit.png)
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...
18 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Auction roundup – money raised at BidX1 and Clive Emson auctions](/img/default/pit.png)
Property Investor Today provides another auction roundup, with BidX1 breaking its record of most bids received and Clive Emson raising a...
02 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![London’s fastest house sale market revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential homes are taking an average of 12 weeks to sell in West London, according to research from fast house sale...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![South East London set to experience house price boost, says JLL](/img/default/pit.png)
Property prices in South East London are set to increase faster than much of Greater London thanks to significant regeneration throughout...
31 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![The hammer goes down again – here’s the latest auctions roundup](/img/default/pit.png)
At Property Investor Today, we regularly like to keep our readers updated with the latest auction goings-on. Here is our latest...
24 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector remains resilient amid housing concerns](/img/default/pit.png)
Average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of 2018, with December showing a continuation of the steady rise...
16 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Overall asking prices will remain flat in 2019, Rightmove predicts](/img/default/pit.png)
The national average asking price of property coming to market is to remain flat at 0% in 2019, according to a...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![London house prices set to stabilise by end of 2020](/img/default/pit.png)
The decline in the value of properties in the capital could potentially come to a halt as early as autumn 2020. The...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![London sees supply of properties to rent plummet](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of available homes to rent in Greater London is falling at an alarming rate, according to the latest figures...
26 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![London the region with the highest rent rises for the first time in four years](/img/default/pit.png)
London was the region with the highest annual rent rises for the first time since the fourth quarter of 2014, according...
27 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![York crowned as the best place to live in Britain](/img/default/pit.png)
The Sunday Times has named York as the best place to live in Great Britain overall, with Bermondsey crowned the top...
23 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Cogress funds new mixed-use property scheme in Surbiton](/img/default/pit.png)
Private equity firm Cogress has secured £4.1 million of equity to fund a new mixed-use property development in Surbiton, Kingston upon...
02 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![New homes sales dominated by East London in 2017](/img/default/pit.png)
Eastern postcodes dominated the sale of new homes in the capital last year, according to fresh research by Dexters and Stirling...
28 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Outdated house price indices misleading buyers and sellers](/img/default/pit.png)
The most well-known house price indices in the UK are publishing out-of-date statistics and misleading buyers and sellers, according to recent...
02 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Rental price inflation in the UK experiences another slowdown](/img/default/pit.png)
Rental price inflation has now lagged behind general rate of inflation, despite average rents across the UK rising by 0.7% in...
20 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![House prices in England and Wales hit new record high](/img/default/pit.png)
House prices in England and Wales returned to growth in May, pushing the average property value to a new all-time high...
12 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK asking prices edge higher](/img/default/pit.png)
Asking prices increased across most of England and Wales between March and April, with the exception of London where values continued...
15 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Average house price in England and Wales breaks £300,000 barrier, says Your Move](/img/default/pit.png)
The price of the average property in England and Wales broke through the £300,000 barrier in March, following a 0.5% rise...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Go-ahead for £400m Kingston town centre regeneration scheme](/img/default/pit.png)
Planning consent has been approved for the £400m regeneration of Kingston town centre’s Eden Walk shopping centre in west London. Joint developers...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![New train station would ‘unlock’ potential to create thousands of new homes](/img/default/pit.png)
Plans to build a Thameslink station in the north London area of Brent Cross may be brought forward by nine years...
31 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Free landlord and property investor event comes to London this April](/img/default/pit.png)
Investors, landlords and property enthusiasts will descend on London's ExCel on April 28 and 29 for the annual Property Investor &...
31 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Sellers overvalue their properties by 6.8%](/img/default/pit.png)
Homeowners in England and Wales over estimated the value of their property by an average 6.8% in 2016, according to research...
09 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![More than half of remortgaging done to raise capital](/img/default/pit.png)
Homeowners across England and Wales remortgaged for around £15,000 more in 2016 than they did two years ago, with 57% capital...
31 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Where have house prices increased the most due to the Crossrail effect?](/img/default/pit.png)
London’s new Crossrail, a railway line spanning from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the...
06 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![House price falls in London look ‘inevitable’](/img/default/pit.png)
Homeowners and property investors in Greater London are facing steep falls in house prices as the slowdown in prime areas of...
06 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![London to lead recovery in house prices with 16.5% growth by 2021](/img/default/pit.png)
London is to lead the UK house price recovery with 16.5% cumulative growth between now and the end of 2020, according...
11 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![New JV set up to acquire £100m of land](/img/default/pit.png)
Investment and development company Martin’s Properties and housebuilder BlackOnyx have joined forces to launch Obsidian Strategic – a joint venture (JV)...
01 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![House prices in England and Wales rise marginally in September](/img/default/pit.png)
The average price of a residential property in England and Wales rose slightly last month despite a month-on-month decline recorded in...
17 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sharp rise in new housing approvals in London](/img/default/pit.png)
More than two-thirds of planning applications for the construction of new homes in London were approved during the second quarter of...
01 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Lacklustre prime central property market continues to stagnate](/img/default/pit.png)
The housing market in London’s traditional ‘prime’ market continues to slow as global economic turmoil and tax increases for high-value property...
17 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Home buyers happy to stay in London](/img/default/pit.png)
New research by conveyancing services firm My Home Move has revealed that more than half of home buyers (57%) in Greater London...
23 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![London rent growth slowing, reports HomeLet](/img/default/pit.png)
Rent prices for new tenancies in Greater London are rising at the slowest rate since March 2014, according to the latest...
12 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Average Greater London house price reaches half a million](/img/default/pit.png)
Property prices have broken through the £500,000 mark across 51% of postcodes districts within Greater London, according to new analysis from...
05 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Strong January for housing activity](/img/default/pit.png)
The year is commencing with significant optimism, as prices have risen 0.3% across England and Wales in the last month; the...
15 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Average rents falling as landlords pledge to hold firm for first half of 2016](/img/default/pit.png)
Average rent on new tenancies agreed over the three months to November fell in most areas of the country, according to...
11 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Housing stock hits post-crisis low, index suggests](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of properties for sale in England and Wales has fallen to a new low, according to property website Home.co.uk. The...
13 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Halstead named top investment location](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest Rightmove Rental Trends Tracker has revealed that Halstead has been named as the highest performing investment location outside of...
23 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Slowdown of rental price growth across the UK, HomeLet Index reveals](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest findings from the HomeLet Rental Index have revealed that rent prices have slowed below double figures to an average...
23 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Data reveals cities with the most incoming tenants](/img/default/pit.png)
Wakefield, Coventry, Brighton, Nottingham and Greater London top the list of hotspots where tenants new to the area account for the...
21 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Rest of the UK catching London on rental growth](/img/default/pit.png)
The average rent across the UK is now rising in line with Greater London for the first time and at the...