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Hamptons has launched a residential investment department - and it’s using the sister Connells brand to give new homes more exposure...

Investors relying on capital appreciation are in for a pleasant surprise in 2024 according to Knight Frank. Tom Bill, head of the...

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

Savills has revealed the residential element of its annual cross-sector forecasts for investments in 2024 to 2028. The agency says turbulence in...

One of the country’s highest profile high-end property consultancies says confidence is returning to prime markets after a turbulent year, with...

Agents working for one of the country’s highest profile and most respected buying services - Stacks Property Search - have been...

A property search company - Recoco - has given a radical reassessment of some investment hotspots in its preview of 2024. Nigel...

Prime London markets are proving more resilient to rising interest rates than their mainstream equivalents, says high end agency Savills. Prices in...

Purplebricks de-lists from the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market on June 16 - the end of what many regard as...

As the idea of a new prime minister takes effect, how the government tackles the economic challenges facing the country remains...

A significant nationwide study by leading specialist lender, Together predicts the UK specialist residential mortgage market will treble to £16 billion...

A few years ago, we carried out an interview with Tzvete Doncheva, who has become one of the most prominent PropTech...

Two pioneering tech firms have partnered to deliver the UK’s first homes to guarantee residents zero energy bills. Octopus Energy and ilke...

Average house price values are set to rise by a total of 12.9% by the end of 2026, but affordability pressures...

Dave Butler recently stood down as the CEO of the UKAA (the UK Apartment Association), the main membership body for the...

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

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have become increasingly popular among young investors, despite being famously volatile. But, at present, buying...

A specialist alternative asset manager has committed £12 million, alongside several significant public sector bodies, as part of a public-private partnership to regenerate...

This week’s auction roundup is filled with Christmas joy, from Sutton Kersh achieving over £80 million in auction sales, to iamsold...

Despite recent warnings from the Bank of England that it could be worthless and investors being at a potentially greater risk...

Goldman Sachs made the headlines after announcing a partnership with Urban & Civic to deliver hundreds of rental homes across the...

Private treaty property sales are fraught with pitfalls and at SDL Property Auctions we believe change is long overdue. We believe...

This week’s auction roundup involves another bumper month for SDL Property Auctions as it partners with Rightmove to revolutionise auctions, as...

Although summer is winding down, the world of property auctions is still very much active, with data from iamsold revealing that...

Now that we’re well into the summer, Property Investor Today takes a look at the mid-year results for Sutton Kersh Auctions...

A government-backed modular housing ‘pioneer’ has unveiled the UK’s first mainstream zero carbon home, which it claims can cut energy bills...

The rental sector has doubled in size in the past 20 years, with an estimated 19% of households (11 million people)...

In the last auction roundup of April, Property Investor Today takes a look at iamsold’s free educational webinar on the Modern...

In this guest piece, the team at One Touch Property Investment outline the cities that are best for serviced apartments. With accommodation...

Developing and constructing homes in an eco-friendly way – to lower the property industry’s currently high carbon footprint – has become...

Kingston upon Hull is the hidden hotspot for property investors in the north of England, a developer firm has claimed. Iguana Developments, which specialises...

Last week, two of the UK’s biggest housebuilders – Barratt and Berkeley – held webinars aimed at investors. While new-build developments have traditionally...

Birmingham-based property developer Cordia Blackswan has officially handed over its Hockley Mills site to Legal & General (L&G) and Sir Robert...

Following one of the most disruptive and challenging years in living memory, I have no doubt that many of those in...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA) could almost double and become a more mainstream way of buying and selling if people...

This week’s results have proven, once again, that auctions – particularly, online auctions – continue to thrive in the face of...

Although it’s been said quite a lot this year, 2020 has been an unprecedented year in history and one in which...

Homebuilding & Renovating – which describes itself as the number one site for self-builders and home extenders – is launching its...

The purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector is showing signs of recovery following market disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to...

Before the pandemic struck, Build to Rent (BTR) was undeniably the property market’s fastest-growing trend. Many expect it to recover quickly,...

In one of the biggest signs yet that modern methods of construction (MMC) are going mainstream, NHBC, the leading warranty and...

Until now, self-build has been something of a niche market – for the brave and risk-taking. It’s received national prominence through...

Google searches for ‘moving abroad’ have once again returned to the peak search figures of last year. The current Covid climate,...

Knight Frank’s latest Global Residential Cities Index, which tracks the movement in mainstream residential prices across 150 cities worldwide using official...

The last 12 or so weeks have been rather nerve-wracking for the property sector. The lockdown has raised many questions, from...

UK house sales are predicted to decline by 38% on 2019 to 734,000 transactions for the full year (2020). That is according...

One of the very few silver linings of the current coronavirus pandemic has been the seemingly positive impact lockdowns across the...

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

In the immortal words of Noddy Holder, it is nearly Christmas and, with the festivities almost upon us, Property Investor Today...

With sustainability and green issues becoming popular buzzwords in 2019, driven by an increasing awareness of the climate crisis, the school...

Property Investor Today has previously looked at how Smartlands became the first company to tokenize property in the UK and asked whether fractional ownership and...

At Property Investor Today, whenever we shine a light on an overseas investment hotspot, British buyers typically feature towards the top...

Last month Property Investor Today attended AEW UK’S economic briefing on senior living to find out whether this could be the...

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

Cardiff may be small, but those who know the city would probably agree that it’s perfectly-formed and it’s certainly a great...

Property Investor Today was recently invited along to the 150th anniversary celebrations of renowned constructor Sir Robert McAlpine, where we met...

Buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage costs have continued to fall since the second quarter of 2019, according to Mortgage Brain analysis. The cost of...

The fact that so much of Europe’s attention has been focused on Brexit and also events in some of the larger...

A leading property investment platform announced on Monday that it is launching an opportunistic fund. Property Partner, which was launched in January...

PropTech has been something of a buzzword in recent years – a rising trend which sees internet-savvy startups launch digital and...

Berlin, which next year marks its 30th anniversary as a re-unified city, has witnessed strong price growth over the last five...

Remortgage affordability decline & a £19,000 consolidation to make monthly savings Problem The client wanted to borrow £19,000 to consolidate her two...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fully authorised ‘Lendy – The Property Platform’, one of Europe’s largest peer-to-peer platforms. Following a detailed...

The cost of most mainstream buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages is starting to climb following political uncertainty and last November’s interest rate rises,...

The auction market continues to prosper while estate agent sales are still struggling, according to research conducted by Auction House. The auctioneer...

The cost of buy-to-let mortgages has remained mostly unaffected by the second phase of Prudential Regulation Authority changes, coupled with months...

The cost of mortgages has continued to fall despite the regular warnings of interest and mortgage rate rises. After the UK’s economy...

Investors could have seen their buy-to-let (BTL) returns increase by as much as 1,131% over the past two decades, according to...

The bridging loans sector has markedly raised its profile in recent years. It is also becoming better understood by property investors,...

Mortgage costs and rates fell during the second quarter of the year, according to the latest figures. Mortgage Brain’s quarterly product data...

A growing number of property investors are turning to alternative finance options to overcome tougher mainstream mortgage lending criteria and stress...

There was a 6.5% increase in global house prices in the year to March 2017, the highest annual rate of growth...

Sterner affordability criteria, stress testing and more robust risk management for lenders seeking to underwrite mortgage contracts has left many property...

Despite new figures from the RICS Residential Market Survey showing a rather ‘gloomy’ outlook about the state of the residential property...

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

The bridging sector in the UK has witnessed five-fold growth in lending since 2011, as property professionals have increasingly considered bridging...

With banks in Australia continuing to tighten their investor lending criteria, a growing number of investors looking to invest in property...

Overseas investors and British expats are finding it increasingly difficult to secure mortgages in the UK to fund property acquisitions, according...

Demand for short term loans continued to surge in the final quarter of last year, as an increasing number of property...

Borrowers that require a very quick turnaround to secure their next property investment will be pleased to learn that LendInvest has...

Specialist lender Together has increased its maximum mortgage loan amount to £1m to enable more investors to invest in property in light of...

While buy-to-let lenders come to terms with fresh interventions imposed by the Prudential Regulation Authority, designed to subject buy-to-let landlords to stricter...

Residential property prices across parts of the UK could rise by more than £50,000 over the next five years, although much...

Bridging lending increased sharply during the third quarter of the year peaking at £140.49m, brushing off volatility that had plagued the...

While buy-to-let lenders brace themselves for further interventions, confidence in one often-overlooked corner of the market is currently booming. Sentiment among bridging...

There was more bad news for the pensions industry after a new study found that young people feel saving for property is...

The number of mortgage products on the market has increased sharply over the past two years, led by gains in the...

Specialist lender Together has joined forces with buy-to-let and commercial mortgage broker TBMC to provide property investors with auction and bridging...

A growing number of property investors are attracted by rising residential property prices in Germany’s main cities, supported largely by high...

Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s chief economist, has confirmed what many of us already knew – investing in property is...

Short-term property finance lender LendInvest has joined forces with LOT11 to become the funding partner for those seeking to buy property...

A growing number of vendors are opting to sell homes under the hammer in order to avoid the conventional drawn out...

Leading peer-to-peer lending platform LendInvest has unveiled a new look. The rebranding, which includes a new logo and website, aims to...

At the last budget the Chancellor announced that from 2017 he was phasing out higher rate tax relief on the interest...

Research by equity release lender more 2 life has revealed that nearly four fifths (77%) of advisers believe there should be...