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A legal firm says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has effectively slashed the value of holiday homes which are sold from April 2025...

The number of landlords who have fallen behind on their mortgages has jumped, says lenders trade body UK Finance. Buy to let...

The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...

Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in...

Despite a sharp fall in the number of homes bought by landlords in 2023, the number of limited companies set up...

Black Brick has been advising professional property investors, buyers, sellers and developers since 2007.  It says it’s advised, sourced and acquired almost...

As the ‘big buy-to-let’ sell off gathers momentum, we take a look ways you can guestimate the value of your rental...

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

Investing in Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) can be a smart move for those looking for a higher return on investment...

New research from Shawnbrook shows that green mortgage discounts could be encouraging landlords to make home upgrades. These discounts can help...

The UK’s buy-to-let market has changed beyond recognition over the last few years and with a recession on the horizon, landlords...

Universities – the institutions where the brightest of the batch go to not only enhance themselves but will one day, also...

Sequre Property Investment has announced a £10.4 million cash realisation for over 1,400 investors over the last 12 months, across its...

New analysis from Knight Frank suggests that rent rises are tempting landlords back into the market. It found that, in some cases,...

Landlords have been making attractive profits from renting property to students for many years, with this traditionally being one of the...

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

The number of overseas investors confessing to tax evasion in the UK has more than quadrupled to 338 this year from...

GetGround and Salboy have announced a strategic partnership to make property investing in the North West easier, faster and more efficient.  Salboy, the North West property development and investment company, and GetGround,...

Investors could be ‘severely impacted’ by government plans to raise the required Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating for buy-to-let properties in...

In this guest piece, Martin Dell, Founder of Kyero, explores what makes overseas properties, particularly those in France, an attractive option...

We’ve already reached October in what has been another tumultuous year for the housing market. The auction world continues to thrive,...

While restrictions around international travel remain largely uncertain, demand for UK staycations has experienced a meteoric rise. Thousands of holidaymakers are zoning...

Property investors are always looking for new strategies and Rent-to-Rent has recently risen to the top of the popular strategies list....

Is property investment still a good long-term strategy, or has the taxation and regulatory reforms over the past five years made...

With international travel currently banned, and likely to remain that way for the foreseeable, the great British summer holiday is likely...

The number of tenants experiencing rent rises dropped for the second month in a row, according to ARLA Propertymark. The trade body's...

With the staycation boom caused by Covid-19, which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future as travel restrictions remain for...

With the potential for restrictions to be in place on and off for many years to come, and the likely continued...

Research by Built Asset Management (BAM) has revealed a marked increase in renters scrapping single lets in favour of co-living, with...

Accountancy firm MJ Bushell says now is the perfect time for landlords and investors to consider property incorporation. Property tax specialists at...

Despite the current thawing of relations between Westminster and Beijing, caused by controversial new laws in Hong Kong (a former British colony)...

As is always the case in times of crisis, people are asking what might follow, what industries might thrive as normal...

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed in his first Budget plans to introduce a 2% stamp duty surcharge on non-UK tax residents. While...

The Mayfair property market is set for a ‘Boris Boom’, according to the latest report by estate agency Wetherell. The report –...

The hottest UK cities for rental demand have been revealed by new research from rental management platform Howsy. The platform has examined...

The two biggest Scottish cities - Edinburgh and Glasgow - are currently the fastest places to sell a property, with homes...

A new development on the Costa Del Sol is aiming to become the 'most desirable residential destination in Spain' and possibly...

You can earn good money from buy-to-let property. Over the last few decades, people have been investing in property to supplement...

Airbnb hosts and landlords of short-term let properties in Walton, Liverpool are achieving the best yields of any location in the...

It's been a buoyant start to the year for the auction market, with SDL Auctions’ sales being accompanied by TV crews and Clive Emson...

Investment yields from prime London buy-to-let properties don’t reflect the risks involved, Hadrian’s Wall Capital (HWC) has claimed. The London-based specialist debt...

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

The UK lettings market performed steadily in June, according to the latest Agency Express Property Activity Index. The number of properties with...

The number of buy-to-let investors in the UK reached a record high of 2.5 million in the latest tax year, up...

MercyCrowd has become the first international platform to enable investment in buy-to-let properties. With an aim to safeguard investors from negative leverage...

Buy-to-let landlords in the UK over the age of 55 could be entitled to almost £50 billion via equity release, Retirement...

Sales of buy-to-let properties continue to be driven by pension “pot hunters”, according to the latest findings from Sequre Property Investment. Sequre’s...

A growing number of investors are starting to shun residential property, deterred by recent tax hikes, and are opting instead to...

A single mum who lived in a council flat with her newborn baby has been given a new £120,000 home for...

Paragon Mortgages is the latest in a long line of lenders to announce that it will be implementing changes for portfolio...

A new ‘questions and answers’ resource designed to make it easier for those investing in property to understand their Stamp Duty...

Property transactions fell in April this year, down 3.2% on March’s total, according to the latest figures from HM Revenue &...

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

The number of mortgages approved for residential property purchases rose for the second consecutive month in October as the housing market...

The average price of a residential property in Scotland rose by 4.3% in the 12 months to August 2016, fresh figures...

The number of home sales fell sharply in the year to September, the latest figures from the tax office show. According to...

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

Global markets have plunged, David Cameron has announced that he is to step down as Prime Minister later this year, sterling...

Residential property prices in the UK could fall by up to 20% as a consequence of the Chancellor George Osborne’s buy-to-...

UK property investors seeking lucrative buy-to-let investments should consider looking to the continent for higher rental yields, according to new research...

Given the recent introduction of a number of less favourable tax changes relating to buy-to-let properties in the UK, property investors...

Property investor Marco Robinson is offering fellow property investors an opportunity to win a buy-to-let property in Manchester worth in the...

Analysis of official figures has revealed the worst performing UK location for average house price growth since the first quarter of...

Research by conveyancing experts My Home Move has revealed that activity within the buy-to-let and second home market has risen by...

Announced in the Summer Budget of 2015, the government is introducing significant changes to how UK landlords can cover the cost...

Nearly three quarters (72%) of buy-to-let investors have claimed that legal changes to the sector this year will have a negative...

Some 45% of landlords surveyed by flatsharing website SpareRoom.co.uk said they plan to raise their rents this year. Covering the costs of...

Buy-to-let investors could be forgiven for feeling rather under siege as 2015 draws to a close. Landlords who had been encouraged over...

Paragon Group has released its results for the year ending 30 September 2015, reporting that buy-to-let lending has increased by over...

Student property is currently the UK’s best performing asset class, with over £4 billion invested into the sector in the first...

Connells Residential, one of the UK’s largest estate agencies, is launching Invest Fest – its first ever event dedicated to property...

There’s an argument that the property market in the UK right now is too buoyant for many investors to make money...

Average rents for newly let properties rose by 4.5% in Q1 2015 to £894pcm, according to new findings from Countrywide’s Quarterly...