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London is not the be-all and end-all! When talking about the UK, one of the first locations to be mentioned is...

Harrison Street, one of the leading investment management firms exclusively focused on alternative estate assets, and Eagle Street Partners (Eagle Street),...

In this week’s roundup, PIT takes a look at the latest UK schemes, including the newest phase in Barratt London and...

Housemates, the instant book student accommodation marketplace operating across 40 cities in the UK and Ireland which we have closely followed...

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

The Chartered Institute of Housing’s (CIH) upcoming 2022 Housing Review shows the lack of clear government strategies and insufficient financial incentives...

UK renters are forking out up to 77% of their monthly household income to get by in the UK rental market,...

In this guest piece, Neil Smith, managing director UK and Ireland at Scape, sets out how providers of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA)...

What does it say on your business card? Sam Le Pard, co-founder of LEXI Finance! How does LEXI help developers and property investors? LEXI...

The holiday season is around the corner so that means looking back on an eventful year and preparing for the next....

Expat financial planning firm Blevins Franks held a webinar earlier this month – named ‘A conversation about Moving to Portugal’ –...

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

NAEA Propertymark has released its June Housing Report, revealing that properties are selling over their asking price at an all-time high. The...

This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at the latest goings-on for the UK’s top auctioneers, from John Pye’s brand-new...

Buyers now have only 92 days to benefit from the second stage of the stamp duty holiday before the nil rate...

This week – today (June 23), to be exact – marks five years since the EU referendum. It was a significant moment...

Rula Homes has secured planning consent from Wakefield Council to deliver 77 affordable new homes on a 5.76-acre site at City...

In this guest piece, Tom Ward - founder and global CEO of PBSA provider Scape - which offers student accommodation in...

With Portugal now included on the government’s ‘green’ list for quarantine-free travel from May 17 (meaning people will no longer need...

Telford Homes has exchanged contracts with Sainsbury’s to deliver a new housing scheme in Ilford. According to the developer, the acquisition of...

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

Purchasing an overseas property can be daunting and complicated at the best of times, and this is even more so the...

The self-build market is estimated to have declined in value by some 10% in 2020, as a result of the Covid-19...

With auctions still proving popular in light of Covid-19, and set to thrive even after the pandemic subsides, Property Investor Today...

Developer and hotelier Lawrence Kenwright says he has agreed a deal with 95% of unsecured investors to bring the company he...

People thinking about Vilamoura might first and, in all likelihood, only think about the marina and the hotels, bars and restaurants...

To no-one’s surprise, there haven’t been petitions or concerted pressure from the public, MPs and trade bodies regarding the introduction of...

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

Build to Rent (BTR) has been a growing trend in the UK for a number of years, but what about in...

The number of properties owned by overseas companies in England and Wales has fallen by 4,000 since the EU referendum in...

With the average homeowner staying put in their property for 23 years, mortgage loan company Ocean Finance has uncovered the top...

Scotland has enjoyed a boom in its property market since the beginning of lockdown in March, according to UK-wide letting firm...

As we get ever closer to leaving 2020 behind (and many might be happy to write this year off entirely), thoughts...

In a competitive market, it’s a challenge to get prospective buyers through the door, so when they arrive your property needs...

The fast-growing Build to Rent (BTR) sector continues to generate plenty of news, even as we live through Lockdown 2.0. The week-long...

The proportion of overseas investors who consider real estate and construction to be a key driver of future UK growth has...

A Barcelona-based software company recently announced its list of the ‘World’s Top 50 Short Term Property Managers’.  Rentals United, which describes itself...

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

As all those responsible for managing property will be only too aware, landlords have many obligations under the laws and regulations...

This week, we provide a rundown of the latest auction news, from a one-of-a-kind hotel business site up for sale in...

For most homeowners, the thought of selling a house in 2020 is anxiety-inducing. To some, it feels like tempting fate. However,...

One of the biggest investors in the fast-growing Build to Rent market is rebranding its ‘lifestyle-focused’ rental operator arm – in...

New research has revealed the best nations to invest in for both citizenship and residency where the bonus of visa-free travel...

Tens of thousands of people in the UK and Ireland who lost out in Spain’s catastrophic property crash are now able...

There has never been a harder time to be a landlord in the UK. The pressures that the last six months...

Across the world, people buying and selling homes are having to adapt to new ways of doings things as a result...

Average monthly rents are performing strongly across the country on an annual basis, although comparative figures in the capital dropped for...

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

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...

Some four in 10 mortgage advisers expect to write more buy-to-let business in the next 12 months, according to Paragon Bank. The...

Investors buying homes worth up to £500,000 won’t have to pay stamp duty on these purchases until the end of March...

Knowing exactly where you can go without having to self-isolate for 14 days upon your return to the UK will be...

The latest rental market data from HomeLet shows that average annual rents increased last month following the market officially reopening on...

An Ireland-based PropTech startup has published its study on Covid-19’s impact on the Irish property sector. Beagel, headed up by industry veteran...

A regional property investment firm has released figures which suggest that there is still movement in the property market in the...

Scotland, alongside Wales and Northern Ireland, is using its devolved powers to take a different course from the UK government by...

A headline story of 2020 so far that readers of Property Investor Today will no doubt be aware of is the...

Investment in European multifamily (Build to Rent) markets throughout 2019 reached a near all-time high, according to JLL’s latest market insight. In...

Despite Brexit uncertainty impacting house price growth, changes to tax regulations and a hike in stamp duty thresholds for buy-to-let landlords,...

Across the country, new developments continue to pop up everywhere you look – from the south coast of England to the...

With a rising number of Brits choosing to turn their backs on airport queues and the current poor exchange rates, and...

With January being a popular month for a fresh start, SpareRoom explored the cheapest and most expensive places to rent in...

The Conservative Party has unveiled plans for a 3% stamp duty surcharge for non-UK tax residents who are purchasing property, which...

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

The cost of renting a room in the UK remains steady, up just 1% on last year to an average monthly...

Buying a detached house in the UK is cheaper than paying stamp duty in prime central London, analysis from Springbok Properties...

The majority of private tenants in the UK aren’t eager to buy a home, with only 42% interested in getting on...

An online auctioneer, BidX1, has announced the launch of its global digital property marketplace. The platform expects to sell 2,000 properties with...

Springbok Properties, a Manchester-based fast sale estate agent, has revealed that new-build homes experience a huge premium in certain areas of...

Properties on Spain’s ‘Sunshine Coast’ are in strong demand, according to the latest update on the Andalusia region’s property market from...

New global free-to-list property portal Residential People recently hit its first milestone in securing 800 consumer property enquiries for estate agents...

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

The average rent in the UK now sits at £934, a 1.6% rise on the same time last year, according to...

The average cost of renting a room in the UK has increased by £15 pcm (3%) since this time last year,...

Annual rental growth in the UK (excluding London) is at its lowest point in nearly six years, according to the latest...

The latest Landbay rental index has suggested that landlords in London are potentially £1,806 worse off since the vote to leave...

The value of new-build properties is beginning to outstrip the value of existing properties, according to a study by DJ Alexander...

Ireland has retained its position as Europe’s most attractive destination for buy-to-let investors for the third year in a row, according...

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

Currency expert FairFx has revealed the best and worst destinations to purchase a second home overseas. With Brexit approaching, a second home...

UK house prices have risen by 7.3% since the Brexit vote, according to the latest Land Registry house price data. Now, in...

Pattinson Auction has announced that it aims to double in size by the end of 2018. Having significantly increased the areas they...

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

As a reaction to (and by-product of) London’s housing crisis, there has been a rise in recent years in the number...

Digital auction house BidX1 has launched the catalogue for its latest sale, following the success of what it has described as...

The UK has seen average rents decrease for the first time since 2017 during the first quarter of 2018, according to...

Spain is still the top choice when it comes to Brits retiring to Europe, new figures from the Office for National...

Online auction house, BidX1, has launched its second catalogue, with 40 lots consisting of residential and commercial listings throughout the UK. The...

Fresh research examining the movement of prime residential prices in the world’s top cities since the start of the financial crisis,...

The Sunday Times has named York as the best place to live in Great Britain overall, with Bermondsey crowned the top...

Online auction house BidX1 has launched its first UK online auction after its acquisition of auctioneer Andrews & Robertson as part...

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...

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

Cornwall has topped the list as the most favoured place to buy a holiday home in the UK, according to new...

Expats and foreign nationals in the UAE are using the weak pound to snap up UK properties while prices remain affordable...

The UK is now the fifth worst country in Europe for buy-to-let investment, with average rental yields of just 4%. The findings,...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Property investors turned out en mass as Allsop held its latest residential property auction in central London. The sale, which took place...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

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

While many of us dream of owning property in faraway places, the reality is that most people acquiring property abroad tend...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

After calling a surprise snap general election in a bid to increase her party’s majority in the House of Commons and...

Investors continue to snap up residential properties across the country, but will mainly only commit to deals that they perceive to...

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

There has been a sharp rise in the number of foreigners buying property in Spain, according to the latest figures from...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Residential property prices in Ireland look set to increase as demand for property continues to pick up, while the number of...

With four of the eight luxury houses in a new exclusive development in Kenmare, County Kerry in the South West of...

The Property Investor & Homebuyer Show, the UK’s most comprehensive property exhibition, takes place at London ExCeL this week – 28...

Residential property prices continued to increase across most parts of Ireland in the year to the end of February, led by...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Demand among home buyers has seen a modest recovery following initial post-referendum jitters, but with just 24 hours until Theresa May...

Property investors in the US flocked to an Irish property show in Boston last week with a view to taking advantage...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Residential property prices in Ireland increased by 0.6% month-on-month in January to keep annual growth steady at 7.9% following the first...

Moody’s has warned of a severe shortage of housing in Ireland, which is continuing to drive up prices. The global ratings agency...

The supply of residential properties in the Northern Ireland market continued to decline last month, prompting prices to rise, according to...

The total value of all privately owned homes in Britain has increased above £5trn for the first time - almost three...

The scale of Michael and John Taggart’s financial liabilities have been disclosed, revealing that the former property tycoons and brothers from...

Prime commercial property rents in Dublin will increase by more than 4% in 2017, according to fresh research by Cushman &...

Residential property prices in the UK remained broadly stable in 2016 but is likely to slow next year, the Nationwide has...

Mortgage arrears in Ireland dropped by 3.1% in the third quarter of 2016, the 13th consecutive quarter of decline, the latest...

Here are details of the property auctions taking place this week.  12/12/2016         The Agents Property Auction     Tyne and Wear 12/12/2016         Savills (London -...

A number of property investors, including buy-to-let landlords and property developers, are still unaware that they are liable to pay the...

Here are details of the UK property auctions taking place in December. 01/12/2016         Cottons                West Midlands 01/12/2016         Stags Barnstaple               Devon 01/12/2016         MS Auctions      ...

There is scope for significant property price growth in Ireland despite recent gains, according to a new report. A study by the...

While buying property in the UK has proved to be a lucrative move for many buy-to-let landlords, it is increasingly holding...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Residential property prices in the UK increased by an average of 7.7% in the year to September, according to the latest...

London is to lead the UK house price recovery with 16.5% cumulative growth between now and the end of 2020, according...

With many landlords in Ireland coming to the end of their 10-year interest-only mortgage period, buy-to-let arrears look set to escalate...

Residential property price growth in the eurozone continues to exceed the long-term average with no sign of a bubble last seen...

Retired homeowners have withdrawn an average of £6.8m of property wealth through equity release so far this year, according to new...

There has been a significant increase in the number of property investors acquiring student housing assets in mainland Europe, new research...

First-time buyers are being squeezed out of the housing market in Ireland, especially in Dublin, because of a surge in cash-rich...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Ireland is at risk of another economic disaster because the country has failed to learn from the mistakes of the last...

The Property Investor & Homebuyer Show, the UK’s most comprehensive property exhibition, gets underway tomorrow at London ExCeL and is free to enter. However, all...

Here are details of the UK property auctions taking place in October. 04/10/2016    Robin Jessop    North Yorkshire 04/10/2016    Greenslade Taylor Hunt Yeovil    Somerset 04/10/2016  ...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Investors, landlords and property enthusiasts will descend on London's ExCel on October 7 and 8 for the annual Property Investor &...

Residential property prices continued to boom in some parts of the world, with the five strongest housing markets in Global Property...

Residential property prices rose in 17 of the 22 European housing markets for which figures were available during the year to...

The latest UK House Price Index for June, which includes data for the week after the Brexit vote, shows an annual...

With Dublin suffering from a chronic housing shortage, the number of new homes planned for City Council-owned land in the Irish...

The German housing market is forecast to show the strongest growth in 2016, with prices set to rise by 7% due...

A campaign to tackle the issue of landlords in Ireland withholding tenants’ deposits was launched this week by the Union of...

Investor interest in Ireland’s commercial property market is growing, with many investors now looking beyond Dublin to the country’s provincial markets,...

There has been a significant fall in residential property transactions across the UK which has had an adverse impact on home...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Marco Robinson successfully predicted that the UK would leave the EU two years ago, he also said that corporate tax would...

There has been a sharp rise in the cost of buying residential property outside of Dublin in the past year, various...

Demand for commercial property in the UK will weaken in the coming weeks and months after the UK opted to leave...

With a growing number of people living in the private rented sector in Northern Ireland, the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)...

More than 1,000 properties have been sold at auction in Ireland since January, with noticeably strong interest from investors. Well attended auctions...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

House prices rose by 8.2% across the UK to a national average of £209,054 over the year to April 2016, according...

Allsop's largest ever online Irish property auction saw 54 out of the 85 residential and commercial properties sold at a total sales...

The residential property market in Ireland continues to attract investors due to strong growth witnessed in recent years, particularly as the...

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

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Here are details of the property auctions taking place in May.  03/05/2016                                         Clive Emson Kent & South East London  Clive Emson Conference...

Some €15.8bn (£12.3bn) worth of residential and commercial property in Ireland was transacted in 2015, up 6% on the previous year,...

Residential property prices in Ireland increased by 8% over the 12 months to the end of February, fresh figures from the...

Residential property prices across many parts of the UK look set to cool over the next few months amid ‘Brexit’ uncertainty, but...

This week property auctions data firm Essential Information Group (EIG) released its latest National Auction Analysis, so it's time to take...

Q: What does it say on your business card?   Head of Indirect Sales & Partnership Products Q: What does your role involve? I head up...

As 2015 draws to a close, the Essential Information Group (EIG) has published its latest figures covering the whole of the...

Northern Ireland‘s leading property website PropertyPal has launched a brand new property search Android app, making it easier for users to...

The average rent in the UK climbed 0.7% to £1,294 in October, according to Landbay's latest rental index. Rents in all UK...

Population growth and a strong underlying economy will support property investment in the UK, a new report from Moody’s Investor Service has...

The latest findings from the HomeLet Rental Index have revealed that rent prices have slowed below double figures to an average...