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Shawbrook is enhancing its support for professional landlords and property investors seeking larger, more complex financing solutions, increasing its maximum loan...

Investors looking for the next hot location will keep an eye on a new residential neighbourhood promised by a real estate...

Proposals to deliver a “once in a lifetime” regeneration of Glasgow’s Charing Cross have taken a step forward with the submission...

UK house prices rose for the fifth consecutive month in February, up by 0.4 per cent or £1,091 in cash terms,...

The Chancellor has abolished multiple dwellings relief for stamp duty land tax. Relief from SDLT for multiple dwellings in England and Northern Ireland...

Sales Market: The UK housing market is at an inflection point, which means mixed signals for buyers and sellers. Inflation has fallen...

Last year, 2023, was a challenging one fo the housing market in the UK and a frustrating one for investors. While there...

Two leading house price indices have shown recent rises - both the Nationwide last month and now the Halifax. The latter says...

One of the West Midlands most famous landmark buildings has been listed for sale. Commercial agents and investment specialist Robert Irving Burns...

A bank says seasoned property investors are sizing up commercial opportunities given the hostile landscape for residential investment. Emma Cox, MD of...

Knight Frank says the seasonal autumn bounce has failed to materialise in the UK housing market this year. It was a...

Fashionable Central London enclave Camden Town is set to undergo a transformation with a string of new projects. It’s already famous for...

Construction industry insight and intelligence consultancy Glenigan has produced its industry forecast for the next three years - and in a...

Retirement Villages Group (RVG), owned by AXA IM Alts, has revealed the concept for its future collection of Integrated Retirement Communities,...

Permission for the first phase of Dagenham Green has been granted. Plans to build 935 homes on the site of the...

Planning permission has been granted for a mixed-use development at Calvary Barracks. Formerly a Ministry of Defence site in Hounslow, there are...

Legal & General Modular Homes has recently been drafted by the City of Wolverhampton Council as its preferred developer from a...

Despite a drop in the average number of homes listed for sale per estate agency branch across Britain as a whole,...

Not for the first time, the worlds of property and football have collided with the proposed takeover of beleaguered Derby County...

The number of planning approvals dipped in April and appears to have continued into May, signalling the end of the post-Covid...

The best locations for planning permission approval across the UK have been revealed by new analysis carried out by Townscape Architects. The...

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

One of Europe’s biggest transport infrastructure projects is finally set to open later this month after many years of delay and...

In this guest piece, Philip Allin, associate director at Boyer London, looks at the problems and solutions of water neutrality when it...

In this mini update, PIT looks at the latest in planning applications, with affordable factory-built homes in Hastings, high-quality homes anticipated...

In this guest piece, Charles Brown, content writer of LDN Properties, discusses the potential impact of the latest reform on leasehold,...

In part two of her net-zero column, Frédérique Carrier, head of investment strategy at RBC Wealth Management, reviews some investment implications regarding net-zero and...

In this mini update, PIT takes a look at the latest in purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) news, with Dominvs’ plans for...

Labour’s London Assembly planning spokesperson has claimed that much-needed new homes will remain unbuilt and potential jobs unfilled without long-term investment...

While the level of new homes being granted planning permission dipped during the first year of the pandemic, this negative trend...

Things that don’t mix well? Polka dots and stripes, planning and politics. The run-up to an election is usually an uncertain...

On Monday, Michael Gove - Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities - announced that leaseholders in buildings...

In this first development roundup of 2022, Property Investor Today explores a new green community close to Northampton and the granting...

In this planning update, PIT takes a closer look at the 400-plus homes coming to Cambridge as part of a joint...

It's a mini-roundup this week, with a multi-million-pound Leeds development nearing completion, and the first batch of homes at a waterside scheme...

Here, in this latest PIT guest piece, Ellen Klein - editor at Sleep Junkie - outlines how investors should buy their first...

On Thursday night last week, it was announced that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Planning Committee had voted unanimously,...

Since its announcement all the way back in 2009, HS2 is a project that has attracted controversy, derision, support, protests, high-profile...

This development roundup focuses on build to rent and regeneration, with Kebbell expanding its Cornelian Fields development, Gresham House loan for a...

We recently ran a series on the commercial to residential trend sweeping across Britain in these post-Covid times, driven by offices,...

In this latest Q&A interview, PIT speaks to Convivia Group's Roy Ledgister about creating parity between social and private housing, and...

This week’s auction roundup features the exclusive lots available at Bond Wolfe's and Strettons’ October auctions, and a new mention in...

Plans for the latest phase of The Island Quarter development were approved by Nottingham City Council. The approved plans are set to...

Interest from China in the UK property is bouncing back, according to experts on the Chinese buying market in Britain. Domenica Di...

An effective method for sourcing and obtaining sites is critical to the success of any property developer. Starting construction on a...

The West Bar development in Sheffield has been granted full planning approval meaning that construction work can begin within a few months....

Climate change has brought increased rainfall across the country, especially in places that may not have had as much risk of...

Compliance expert Bureau Veritas is encouraging landlords and duty holders to prepare for the Fire Safety Act 2021, and describes the...

A rising problem in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector is tenant fraud. The busiest time of year for renters is...

MCI Developments and Promenade Estates secures Ellesmere Port approval Promenade Estates alongside its partner MCI Developments has secured planning consent for 170 houses...

In this week’s auction roundup, Property Investor Today looks at the top auction results in the month just gone, with Allsop,...

Ross Counsell, chartered surveyor and director at property buyers, GoodMove, shares his thoughts on the stamp duty holiday, how it’s contributed to higher...

Quinta do Lago, one of the most famous resorts in the Algarve and a key part of the famed Golden Triangle,...

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

One solution that has frequently been talked about as a way of solving the housing crisis is to build upwards on...

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and the start of the first lockdown in March 2020, major auction houses up...

Two already popular parts of South London – Oval and Kennington – are set to be even more in-demand as a...

The UK’s asbestos industry ended on August 24 1999 after being used heavily from the 1950s to 1970s. Over 20 years...

Real estate funding specialist ASK Partners and OakNorth Bank have completed a £22 million co-loan for the next phase of an...

Last week, Global Citizen Solutions – a boutique migration investment firm headquartered in Lisbon – held a webinar to discuss the...

Early next month, Londoners will head to the polls to elect the capital’s next Mayor, in a vote that has been...

Covid-19 has had a radical impact across almost every aspect of society, and it is no different when it comes to...

A specialist provider of purpose-built student accommodation has reported a trebling in the pace of bookings since Prime Minister Boris Johnson...

Construction work on a set of new riverside apartments in North Tyneside has begun. The £10 million development, Shepherds Quay, will be...

The National Leasehold Campaign (NLC) – the UK's largest and most influential campaign group on leasehold reform - has welcomed the...

Liverpool-based global property developer Romal Capital has reinforced its commitment to Liverpool’s Central Docks by committing £100 million to transform the derelict brownfield...

Work has commenced on a £9.2 million housing scheme in Castleford, West Yorkshire, which will transform a brownfield site into high-quality,...

LaSalle Investment Management has become the first institutional investment landlord in the UK to complete re-cladding at a cost in excess...

Over the last 10 months, we have seen a raft of changes to the planning rules in England. This has been...

A leading leasehold law expert has warned that leaseholders affected by the cladding scandal face 'years of misery'. Mark Chick, a specialist...

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

It’s been an area of hot discussion in recent weeks as the UK gets used to its new post-Brexit reality, where...

Summix Capital’s plans to turn the former Plumb Center in the heart of Bath into student accommodation have been granted planning...

While many have cautiously welcomed the prospect of leasehold reform, Mick Platt, chief executive of Wallace Partnership Group, offers a different...

Despite the introduction of Lockdown 3.0, the fast-growing Build to Rent (BTR) market shows no signs of slowing down, with acquisitions,...

Ambitious plans for a ‘ground-breaking’ cohesive-use scheme at Nottingham’s The Island Quarter development have been submitted. The latest phase – which is...

In this bumper development roundup - the final one of the year - we explore the planned creation of new developments and...

One of the biggest property investment trends of the year, driven by the pandemic and the devastation this has caused for...

In this opinion piece, Elizabeth Osborne - a legal director at Ashfords Solicitors - asks whether the government's proposed planning reforms will be dangerous...

Student accommodation provider Future Generation is ending the year on a high note by topping out three schemes in two months...

On PIT, we’ve asked this question quite a lot in recent months, with John Lewis entering the Build to Rent market...

As property investors, it is very important that we monitor house price trends when assessing new deals and during existing long-term...

Claremont Property Group has been granted approval for the regeneration of 55 Holloway Head, with the historic ‘flatted factory’ in Birmingham...

Before the lockdown announcement was made, the number of transactions completed was returning to pre-Covid levels. That is according to Nicky Stevenson,...

A property valuations and disposals firm has been appointed by the joint administrators of two further Elliot Group development schemes in...

It’s common knowledge that asbestos is a highly damaging group of microscopic fibres that can severely impact the health of our...

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

With changes to the use class system and permitted development rights now in force, Christina Daniels and Marisia Beard of leading law firm...

We have seen over the past few months a real government impetus to regain lost ground, since the economic effects of...

As a landlord, it’s vital to conduct periodic inspections throughout each tenancy to ensure that the condition of your rental property...

Work on a former vacant office building at Gosforth’s Regent Centre is three months ahead of schedule and is due to...

The coronavirus pandemic has affected every single part of the property market in some shape or form, but some parts were...

The dedicated housebuilding arm of developer St. Modwen has secured approval for 56 new apartments in Longbridge Town Centre. St. Modwen Homes...

A range of luxury apartments, part of a new development in Chelsea at Essoldo House, have been launched to the market. The...

In his ‘Build, Build, Build’ speech in Dudley last month, Boris Johnson set out a number of radical planning reforms. This...

A long-awaited riverside regeneration project has moved a step closer after planning approval was granted for Clifton Slipways, a contemporary mixed-use...

A leading UK specialist real estate lender and investor has agreed to provide Heworth Green Developments, under the North Star banner,...

Who are you? My name is Benjamin Hall and I’m the Founder and Managing Director of LOFT. What services does LOFT provide? LOFT delivers...

The short-term accommodation and holiday lettings sector, of which Airbnb is the major player, has supported the implementation of new UK-wide...

A Dutch company has released an app that allows investors across the globe to access real estate investments, as Covid-19 continues...