Archive

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

Unite – one of the largest providers of student beds in the UK – recently announced the successful completion of the...

While Covid-19 continues to affect us all in differing ways, many countries in Central and Eastern Europe are tentatively lifting lockdown...

With lockdown measures starting to be eased, and the possible move to step 2 of the three-step plan from June 1,...

New images have been released to highlight how the £1 billion regeneration of Purfleet-on-Thames will transform the Essex town’s town centre...

Whether you’re a first-time landlord or a seasoned one looking to build your portfolio, you will need to consider how you...

With the property market set to recover this year – recent research, for example, has shown buyers are growing in confidence...

With approximately 120,250 Chinese people living in London, accounting for 1.5% of the capital's population, and many young Chinese people coming...

Landlords in the UK are spending nearly £4.7 billion a year on their rental properties (an average of £3,134 each), according...

While we wouldn’t be so bold as to say the government gets its daily fix of property news from the Today...

In recent weeks our campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold has continued to gather momentum both in the press and across...

Private sector buy-to-let landlords sometimes get a bad rap from renters, who blame property investors for fuelling a housing boom which...

Christmas, more than any other time of the year, is one for watching films you've seen a hundred times before. We all...

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

DIY disasters and cluttered bedrooms could knock £10,000 off the price of an average home in the UK, a panel of...

A new report from Knight Frank has revealed that Berlin is the city with the fastest urban house price growth in...

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

With continued media interest in the unfair leasehold practices of some freeholders and ever-increasing queries from clients surrounding this point, I...

The government’s decision to launch an independent review of building regulations after tests showed that at least 82 residential high-rises use...

Economically vibrant and at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse, Leeds is a magnet for businesses, which partly explains why office...

Overall housing output north of the border continued to flatline with just 88 more homes, the equivalent of around 1%, built...

International buyers of residential property in the U.S. may not necessarily have a major impact on the overall housing market, but...

Real estate markets across Germany’s main cities are starting to look increasingly attractive to international property investors, especially those in southern...

Plans to transform a former Yorkshire colliery into a new business park have been given the green light. According to the plans...

There are currently 10 buyers chasing every property on the market across England and Wales, according to a leading estate agency firm. haart,...

Growing uncertainty over Brexit and insecurities regarding future subsidies, as well as low commodity prices, continues to drive down demand for...

The Chinese city of Shanghai has become the number one destination for property investment in Asia Pacific, replacing Tokyo in top...

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

Fewer people are buying resale properties in the U.S., mainly because there is a shortage of housing on the market, new...

Specialist lender InterBay has reduced rates across its commercial and semi-commercial mortgage range. Pricing has also been simplified through the introduction of...

The introduction of a new tax to replace stamp duty in Scotland has so far proved successful, but a Holyrood committee...

Demand from homebuyers in the UK continued to fall in November and is now down by more than a fifth year-over-year,...

Increasing demand from international investors, including Britons, looking to acquire residential property in Berlin is placing upward pressure on home prices...

The government’s approval of a third runway at Heathrow may have a negative impact on demand for homes in the local...

Investment into the UK hotel market totalled £3.1bn in the first nine months of the year, according to new research from...

The UK housing market remains resilient post-Brexit, as illustrated by the latest house price index which shows a housing market that...

A growing number of investors are targeting Vienna’s pied-a-terre market, where attractive yields are on offer in key up-and-coming districts, according...

The volume of mortgages approved dropped to an 18-month low in July suggesting that housing market activity will slow during the...

London is no longer the world's premier city for foreign investment in commercial property as the UK’s decision to exit the...

Cheshire West and Chester Council have formally submitted plans for the regeneration of the Northgate area of Chester city centre. The retail-led...

Residential property sales in the United States rose further in April despite rising prices and a decline in housing supply, the...

A sharp rise in the number of homes coming on to the rental market in Australia is placing downward pressure on...

The property industry’s big players dominated the top of the Sunday Times Rich List yesterday, with the Reuben brothers topping the...

Tenants will bear the cost of recent buy-to-let tax hikes for landlords as they will almost inevitably result in a fall...

Landlords are finding the full-time nature of letting property to be more stressful than they initially thought, according to new research. The...

Birmingham has been announced as one of the most popular places to move to across every demographic, with an increasing number...

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

The founder of Spareroom.co.uk has received over 7,250 applications to his “pay what you can afford” room-sharing drive. A few weeks...

Unless agreed otherwise by underwriters in very particular circumstances, landlord insurance policies will stipulate that the insured property is in a...

Residential property investors are facing a number of tax reforms that will fundamentally change the profitability of their portfolios.  The changes will...

The government will be extending mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in order to raise the standards in the...

Poor electrical safety in the Private Rental Sector (PRS) is placing tenants’ lives in danger, as they fail to be protected...