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Average prices across 56 major global housing markets increased again last quarter, with average annual growth now at 3.9% across a...

Maximising Returns: Use tech to make better decisions before acquiring your next property  As property investors, staying ahead in today's competitive market...

Hamptons head of research Aneisha Beveridge says the early signs in 2024 suggest that the market has firmly turned the page.   She...

In Q4 2023 the overall commercial vacancy rate was stagnant at 14.0 per cent - but there is good news for prospective...

Pressure is ramping up on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to cut stamp duty at next month’s Budget on March 6. Former Housing Secretary...

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

Latest data from The Deposit Protection Service shows that average UK monthly rents for Q3 2023 were £1,121.46: a rise of...

Landlord confidence has rebounded strongly in recent months according to a survey by a leading buy to let-focussed bank. All aspects of...

A property and legal consultancy has identified what it calls Scotland’s buy to let capital - and it’s neither of the...

Average annual price growth in prime global city markets ticked up in Q3 2023 to 2.1 per cent, well above the...

There was a record number of properties sold by agents using online auctions in the third quarter of this year, according...

House prices in England and Wales will fall by four per cent over the final quarter of 2023, thanks to inflation,...

The average price of a home in Wales has fallen to £239,378 in the third quarter of 2023, the first time...

England and Wales have seen rising rental yields for the third quarter in a row, with the total yield up 1.0...

Momentum within London’s £5m-plus residential market ramped up in the third quarter of 2023, according to new analysis from Savills. The high...

All regions saw annual price falls in Q3 The Nationwide has produced regional house price indices for Q3 - the July to...

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

Andy Jones, Group Director, Corporate  & Build to Rent, Leaders Romans Group (LRG) Build to Rent (BTR) and more specifically, its regional...

Rental yields and tenant demand are holding firm for landlords’ property investments, however profitability of portfolios was slightly down on the...

Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, this week released its latest Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q4 2022 rental yields across England...

Where are the top locations for property investment in 2023? It's the question all existing or budding property investors will be...

Dolphin Living, a provider of intermediate affordable housing, has exchanged contracts with Moxon Street Residential for the purchase of the long leasehold of 25...

Ingenious has announced that Ingenious Real Estate Finance has completed a bridging loan deal with Cole Waterhouse to support its development of a...

Every quarter the British Property Federation (BPF) and Savills work together, along with data specialists Molior, to plot a Build to...

PIT looks at the latest trends in the UK rental market and investment strategies for buy-to-let landlords and investors. Revolution Brokers uncovers the...

The crown of UK’s number one yield hotspot goes to Bradford, according to new research compiled by PropertyData and Sequre Property...

The teams behind the regeneration of Canada Water have hailed the 53-acre masterplan as a ‘once in a generation opportunity’ to...

The vast majority of the UK public back the government's new Economic Crime Bill designed to crack down on dirty money...

The capital needs almost 85,000 new private homes a year to meet government housing needs, a new report has cautioned. The report,...

The cost of construction for a new-build property is set to climb by almost £18,000 per unit – a jump that...

Integritas Property Group (IPG) has announced the launch of Bastion Point, a brand new residential development in the heart of Liverpool which...

A leading Build to Rent (BTR) provider has set a target of securing more than 500 BTR homes in the South...

A leading Spanish home builder has revealed that more than half (54%) of Brits who reserved homes with the firm in...

In this opinion piece, Jourdan Prowting, Partner Residential Auction at Allsop, analyses London's residential property market and discusses whether now is...

The city of Bristol has become one of the most popular places outside of London for tenants to live in recent...

New data released by overseas property portal Kyero.com has revealed record interest in Portuguese and Spanish property during 2021. Kyero, which is...

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

Despite being home to centuries of history, a Championship football team, a major shopping centre, a thriving tech and business scene,...

The last auction roundup of October sees superb results for iamsold, Bond Wolfe and Sutton Kersh Auctions, as well as Allsop’s...

One of London's leading property services groups has explored the most amenity-rich and walkable communities in Outer London in a report...

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

This mini development roundup features significant funding and investment for a Kensal Green development, a housing scheme in Corby and a...

The theme of this week’s roundup is reflection, as Allsop and SDL Auctions report successful auction results for September, while Auction...

The UK’s fast-growing Build to Rent (BTR) sector recorded a total of £374 million of investment in Q3 2021, according to...

Estate and lettings agent Barrows and Forrester recently explored the rental demand across the nation during the third quarter of the...

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

The property market has suffered greatly as a result of the pandemic, and the rental market, even more so. Dwindling demand due...

Construction works on a new £19 million residential scheme in Nottinghamshire, led by property developer Taggart Homes, are set to begin...

Research by a student accommodation platform has found that the majority of student tenants would like to see utility costs more widely included...

New research from a trade tools supplier has revealed the UK’s fastest-growing housing development locations. Protrade Tools and Fixings analysed domestic housing...

Britain and Hong Kong have long had close relations, not least because it was a British colony until as recently as...

Despite it being not far off 15 years since the global financial crisis, the fallout is still being felt in the...

In light of the controversy surrounding cladding as of late, DBRS Morningstar has released a commentary titled ‘UK Cladding: Much More...

UK rent levels continued to rise faster for larger properties during the last quarter of 2020, according to The Deposit Protection...

In early December, senior researcher at AMA Research, Alex Blagden, talked about an expected surge in Build to Rent (BTR) applications...

Purpose-built Build to Rent (BTR) housing is only a recent concept, with just over 51,000 dwellings completed across the UK as of Q3...

The UK's second tier cities are very often more appealing to international investors in terms of guranteed rental returns - as...

Investment in the fast-growing Build to Rent (BTR) market bounced back significantly in Q3 2020, according to CBRE’s latest Marketview report. Following...

Earlier this year, we ran a number of stories on Preston’s burgeoning reputation as a property investment hotbed, including one about...

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

The purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector is continuing to grow despite the huge impact on universities from the coronavirus pandemic, which...

With lockdown measures in place until at least May 7, and possibly for much longer than that, the new normal is...

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

Lending in the buy-to-let mortgage market has been steady in recent months, despite a slowdown in overall mortgage business, according to...

In a further sign of its growing strength as a market, more than £2 billion was invested into the UK’s Build...

Rental prices in major European cities are continuing to level out, but Amsterdam and Munich are bucking this trend. That’s the major...

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

The latest buyer demand index from Springbok Properties has found that UK homebuyer demand dropped -2.8% to 39.5% since Q2 as...

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

The current uncertainty being caused by Brexit has had a clear impact on the number of Chinese residential acquisitions in the...

Properties across Scotland continue to sell above their asking price, according to the latest quarterly house price report by s1homes.com. During Q4...

An increasing number of landlords are choosing five-year fixed rate products, according to Mortgages for Business’ Buy-to-Let Index. In fact, 84% of...

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

The number of landlords looking to remortgage has reached an all-time high, Paragon’s latest Financial Adviser Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index has...

Edinburgh has seen price growth of 1.9% across Q3 2018, while prices in Scotland rose by 0.7% in the same period,...

Some 93% of landlords financing buy-to-let property opted for a fixed rate mortgage in the second quarter of 2018, according to...

Strong demand from home movers at the beginning of the year has led to the average asking price of a newly-marketed...

The share of buy-to-let (BTL) lending decreased to 12.5% in June 2017 – the lowest percentage since Q3 2013 – which...

The proportion of new buy-to-let purchase applications in Northern England has grown year-on-year for Q3 2017, according to a fresh report...

The latest data from Knight Frank has revealed that the number of agreed tenancies for prime home counties properties has increased...

New data from Carter Jonas has revealed that farmland values throughout the UK have declined by more than 10% in the...

Knight Frank’s research revealed prime country house prices have fallen a mere 0.1% between July and September, with annual growth remaining...

The number of agricultural to residential conversions in the UK has dropped from 574 in the third quarter (Q3) of 2016...

With a growing number of property investors using short-term bridging finance to buy property, June was a landmark for many specialist...

Despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty, there has been a major improvement in sales volumes throughout prime central London as purchasers...

There has been a significant fall in British demand for Spanish homes since the EU referendum, despite the overall Spanish housing...

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

Investment volumes in London increased to £4.1bn in the final quarter of 2016, the latest Property Perspective report from CBRE shows.  The...

Demand for bridging loans surged last year, as a growing number of property investors turned to short-term finance solutions, which typically...

The number of commercial property loans being written off has dropped to its lowest level since the credit crunch, fresh figures...

Property prices across the largest UK cities rose by an average of 7.2% in 2016, taking the 20 city average to...

Global house prices rose 5.3% on average in the 12 months to September 2016, with Turkey, New Zealand and Iceland recording...

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

Residential property prices in the US rose 1.5% in the third quarter of the year, fresh figures from the Federal Housing...

Residential property prices in Dubai dipped during the third quarter of the year following a fall in transactions, new figures show. Annual...

The UK’s construction sector recorded its weakest performance since 2012 in the third quarter of the year, official figures have revealed. Construction...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of overseas investors taking advantages of some ‘compelling income returns’ in Scotland,...

The Cardiff office market has recorded its best ever third quarter on record, with take up levels reaching 183,992 sq ft,...

Prime residential property prices across the world’s major cities increased on average by 3.8% in the 12 months to September 2016,...

Despite the rather subdued state of the office market across Sheffield, offices located in the periphery of the city appear to...