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

Despite the ongoing implications of Brexit and, more recently, the pandemic, the number of overseas landlords owning property in the UK...

UK residents seeking to escape to Europe for great value for money opportunities to ‘live, work and thrive’ will have no...

The number of properties owned by overseas companies in England and Wales has fallen by 4,000 since the EU referendum in...

A London-based property development company, founded by two young local entrepreneurs, managed to post record sales over the last two quarters...

“It’s time to talk about Brexit,” according to Spanish property expert and author Sean Woolley. While the Covid-19 pandemic has, for obvious...

It’s a question many would-be investors will have been asking themselves, with so much remaining up-in-the-air and uncertain at present. But...

Knight Frank’s latest PCL (Prime Central London) index reveals that average prices in this market declined by 2.1% in April, the...

Spanish mortgage specialists Fluent Finance Abroad have offered reassurance to British buyers that there is no need to give up on...

Buy a property below market value, renovate it and then make a tidy profit by selling it at a higher price,...

While the coronavirus outbreak has led to the postponement of all local and mayoral elections in England for a year to...

The thorny issue of rent controls has reared its head again as the campaigns for the London mayoral election 2020 start...

In this Q&A, Property Investor Today catches up with Charlie Baxter, managing director and co-founder of award-winning development manager Alchemi Group, to find out...

In this guest piece, Yaroslava Tkalich, chief marketing officer of Smartlands - a global investment platform for the tokenization of real economy assets by issuing...

With the Conservative Party winning a big majority in last week's general election, it will be expected to honour its manifesto pledge...

International property consultancy Knight Frank recently launched its Prime Ski Property Report 2019, which revealed that the popular ski resort of Val...

With towns and cities across the UK and the world largely becoming dense, mixed-use urban environments, how can investors take advantage...

With the current chaos swirling around Westminster – from the prorogation by Boris Johnson to this week’s Supreme Court ruling that...

As Brexit draws closer it is only natural that home owners are worried about how it will affect them. However, experts...

At Property Investor Today, we regularly like to keep our readers updated with the latest auction goings-on. Here is our latest...

New research has revealed that home movers from the European Union have become significantly less interested in moving to the UK...

Confidence is returning to Barcelona’s property market following a stuttering period after the October 1 independence push in 2017. That’s according to...

A third of homeowners who have moved house since the referendum in June 2016 say Brexit was behind their decision to...

It took the Spanish property market several years before it really started to claw its way out of the chaos brought...

House price growth across UK cities reduced steadily throughout 2018, according to new analysis carried out as part of Zoopla’s UK...

There has been an increase in the number of house sales falling through before completion, according to Quick Move Now. Figures released...

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

Brexit voting areas are displaying the most confidence in the property market, stats released by comparison site NetAnAgent have revealed. While the...

UK house prices have risen by 7.3% since the Brexit vote, according to the latest Land Registry house price data. Now, in...

Brexit uncertainty has ramped up the cost of overseas property, according to Hargreaves Landsdown Currency Service. Despite house prices in Spain still...

The amount spent on European property by Britons has increased by two thirds. That is according to data released by international...

British people will not be put off by the weaker pound and Brexit negotiations and will continue to buy French properties...

A new survey of housebuilding companies has revealed that the construction of new homes has fallen significantly since the EU referendum...

Scotland's property market is at its strongest since 2008, despite the EU Referendum, this year’s general election, higher tax rates than the...

The price of the average UK home will rise by more than 50% in the next 10 years, say online estate...

There were 104,760 residential property transactions in the UK in July, up 1.3% from June and 8.3% higher than the corresponding...

A third of small building firms, which includes property investors taking on renovation jobs, say that soaring material prices are squeezing...

Recent months have seen the UK property market starting to slow down. So what has caused this, and will it change? Whilst...

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

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

The pound fell to an eight-week low after last week’s surprise general election result, which has increased uncertainty over both the...

The UK will remain a property safe haven despite the upcoming general election and Brexit, new research shows. The study of 1,100...

There was a sharp rise in the number of property transactions north of the border in March, as demand for property...

You may have noticed a renewed flurry of post-referendum pessimism in early February as UCAS published its January 2017 deadline application...

Households’ expectations on UK house prices for the coming year remains rather subdued following the outcome of last year’s EU referendum,...

More than nine months on from the historic Brexit vote, and home buyers are now paying 1.3% on average more for...

London’s outer boroughs look set to benefit if they capitalise on an increasing trend towards shorter commutes and flexible working by...

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

More than a third of home sales fell through in the UK prior to completion during the first quarter of the...

Demand among home buyers has seen a modest recovery following initial post-referendum jitters, but with just 24 hours until Theresa May...

House prices were at the forefront of the EU debate in the run-up to last year’s referendum, with various experts, including...

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon may be making plans to hold a second Scottish independence referendum, but property investors are not deterred...

International investors’ interest in UK food stores is likely to increase this year, according to a new Savills report, as the...

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...

A high proportion of people think that residential property prices in the UK will increase this year, despite political and economic...

Concerns that interest rates could rise sooner than markets currently expect has triggered an increase in remortgaging activity, a new study...

With fears of a residential and commercial property crash having receded following last year’s Brexit vote, London is starting to look...

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

Residential property price growth across all prime regional markets slowed during the final quarter of last year, bringing annual growth to...

Political and economic uncertainty and a dip in sentiment and transactions generated in part by the outcome of the EU referendum...

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

There has been a significant decline in British demand for property in the Algarve since the EU referendum, according to Fine...

European property markets finished 2016 strongly, experiencing both improving fundamentals and further yield compression, according to Savills. Savills Investment Management transacted €5bn...

More than two thirds of small and medium-sized UK building firms have seen a rise in the cost of materials caused...

Residential property prices were at the forefront of the Brexit debate in the run-up to the EU referendum, with the now...

Central London’s office investment market has had another strong year with total turnover for 2016 expected to reach in excess of...

Jake Russell, director at Russell Simpson, offers his thoughts on what property market trends we can expect over the coming year. Much...

Marc Langdon, a partner at Bidwells, offers his thoughts on what property market trends we can expect over the coming year. I...

Trevor Abrahmsohn, director at Glentree Estates offers his thoughts on what property market trends we can expect over the coming year.  2016 has...

Will Herrmann, director at West Eleven, a property developer and investment company, offers his thoughts on what property market trends we...

Some 30% of all Middle Eastern capital targeting the UK post EU referendum has been deployed outside of central London with...

Fewer people are expected to invest in residential property in 2017, as tax changes and economic uncertainty deter many property investors...

New housing remained the strongest strand of construction output in October, despite the surprise slowdown in overall construction output, the latest...

A growing number of property investor are trying to establish a strategy that tempers potential losses amid heightened political and economic...

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

London has been recognised as the number one retail location in Europe by Savills in its latest European Retail Destination Index,...

Residential property prices in the UK increased by an average of 7.7% in the year to September, according to the latest...

With demand for high-end properties in central London cooling following the Brexit vote and property tax increases, Britain’s largest housebuilder, Barratt...

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

London is to lead the UK house price recovery with 16.5% cumulative growth between now and the end of 2020, according...

A strong showing from private investors helped Allsop raise £61.1m at their November residential property auction, held at the Cumberland Hotel...

House prices were at the forefront of the EU debate in the run-up to the EU referendum with the now former...

There was a surprise rise in UK home prices in October, despite the slowdown in the housing market in recent months,...

Residential property prices in the UK are expected to remain largely flat until the Brexit negotiations are concluded in 2019, according...

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

Confidence among housebuilders has improved, with many residential property developers confident that they will succeed in their efforts to build more...

Residential property prices in London are set to fall next year as uncertainty about the UK’s exit from the European Union...

Confidence among home buyers has returned to levels last seen prior to the EU vote with demand increasing by 16% in...

The number of mortgages approved by British banks rose last month from a 19-month low in August, according to fresh data...

Despite the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, London remains the “most popular European city” for institutional property investors, but...

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

A high number of investors up and down the country are continuing to turn to auctions to invest in property despite heightened political...

The slowdown in prime central London’s residential property market caused by overinflated house prices, higher taxes, increasing housing supply, weaker demand...

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

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

Take-up of central London office space increased in the third quarter of this year as the market in the heart of...

Consumer demand for building work remained strong in the three months following the vote for Brexit, new figures from the Federation...

Homebuyers are returning to the housing market as post EU referendum fears continue to calm, the latest RICS UK Residential Market...

deVere Mortgages and Al Rayan Bank have entered into a strategic partnership to offer Sharia-compliant mortgage alternatives to the increasing number...

Residential property prices continued to cool in September as the property market softens, with the latest data from Halifax revealing that...

Housebuilding activity in September rose at the fastest pace since January with various developers reporting resilient demand and generally improving market...

The Property Investor & Homebuyer Show, the UK’s most comprehensive property exhibition, gets underway tomorrow at London ExCeL and is free to enter. However, all...

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...

Households in all regions of the UK believe the value of their homes increased in September as confidence continued to improve...

Allsop continued to demonstrate market buoyancy last week posting a £56m total from its September residential auction sale, thanks to what...

It is now a ‘great time’ to invest in the UK housing market despite a new report showing that house price...

Three months on from the EU referendum and economists are still trying to assess what impact the decision to leave the...

Investors, landlords and property enthusiasts will descend on London's ExCel on October 7 and 8 for the annual Property Investor &...

Properties which are well located, have a reliable income stream or offer the potential to add value will continue to attract...

The number of residential property transactions decreased slightly between July and August according to newly released data from HMRC, with last...

London’s office market is under growing pressure from the UK’s decision to leave the European Union as it could result in...

There has been a significant rise in the volume of prospective property purchasers in the prime central London since the EU...

The annual rate of UK house price growth cooled further in August, after slowing the previous month, fresh data shows. Halifax said...

Consumer confidence in UK house price growth has fallen sharply following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, with almost...

The Prime Minister Theresa May has warned that Britain’s exit from the European Union will not be straightforward for the economy,...

There was a significant rise in the number of commercial property investors ploughing money into Manchester’s office property market during the...

Residential property prices in the UK rose marginally in August to reach yet another all-time high, according to fresh data from...

Online interest in Dubai’s real estate market from overseas investors increased in the first half of the year, according to Dubai...

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

Activity levels in the UK’s commercial property market have slowed considerably following the UK vote to leave the European Union, as...

The volume of mortgage enquiries received by deVere Mortgages has surged by 55% week on week since the Bank of England...

The number of residential property transactions fell by 0.9% between June and July, according to newly released figures from HM Revenue...

Residential property prices look set to fall across many part of the UK next year as the housing market and wider...

The UK’s decision to leave the European Union has played a major role in deterring many people from buying property, with...

UK commercial property returns and capital values declined during July, according to the latest IPD UK Monthly Property Index. The data shows...

The latest UK House Price Index for June, which includes data for the week after the Brexit vote, shows an annual...

Since the UK's Brexit vote on June 23, house price growth in the UK has been subdued.  Just yesterday, Rightmove reported that...

The former chancellor George Osborne may have predicted pre-Brexit that UK house prices could take an 18% hit over the next...

Residential property prices in the UK dipped by 0.9% in July compared with a month earlier, despite a healthy rise in...

The German housing market is forecast to show the strongest growth in 2016, with prices set to rise by 7% due...

Residential property prices in prime central London are currently falling at their fastest rate for seven years owed in part to...

Purchasers remained largely unfazed by the uncertainty in the lead up to the EU referendum as reflected by strong demand for...

There has been a notable fall in residential property prices in London which present canny investors with a genuine opportunity to...

Residential property prices increased at their fastest annual pace in four months in July, but the early impact of Brexit has...

Commercial property prices in London could fall by up to 10% in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the EU,...

Brexit has had a negative impact on sentiment but many households still expect to see property prices rise at a moderate...

There has been a significant fall in residential property transactions across the UK which has had an adverse impact on home...

Following Lewis Hamilton’s comfortable victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, we delve into the fast lane to take you...

International property investors are poised to pile into the UK and take advantage of favourable buying conditions by snapping up a...

Annual house price growth remained broadly unchanged in June across the UK’s major towns and cities, but signs are that price...

The number of residential property transactions in the UK increased by 4.9% between May and June, according to new data from...

Gross mortgage lending rose by 16% last month compared with May to reach an eight-year high for the month of June,...

The UK property market retracted slightly in June in the run-up to the EU referendum and in the few days after...

Property prices were at the forefront of the EU debate in the run-up to the referendum, with the now former Chancellor...

Fewer homes are now changing hands in prime central London than during the trough of 2008, fresh research shows. Looking specifically at...

The average asking price for a property in England and Wales has fallen 0.9% so far this month to £270,159, according...

The number of homes that came onto the sales market dropped at its sharpest rate to date while buyer demand fell...

Britain is on the verge of recession following the UK’s decision to exit the European Union last month, according to the...

Banks reduced lending to the commercial property sector for the first time in four years in the run-up to the EU...

Farmland values in England have stabilised after falling at their fastest pace in at least 12 years, but the long-term direction...

Andrea Leadsom’s decision to withdraw from the race for the keys to Number 10 Downing Street yesterday, has not just paved...

There was a marginal rise in the amount of private rents paid by commercial property tenants last month, fresh data reveals. The...

New buyer demand for homes has improved in recent week now that the uncertainty over whether the UK would leave or...

The chancellor George Osborne and business secretary Sajid Javid’s pledge to reduce corporation tax to less than 15% would show Britain...

Consumer confidence in the UK economy has nosedived at the fastest rate in 22 years post-Brexit, according to a new survey...

Residential property prices in the UK look set to fall in the coming months as economic and political turmoil have an...

Brexit horror scenarios, including the collapse in UK house prices forecast by the chancellor George Osborne, have failed to materialise so...

The government remains committed to delivering one million new build homes in England by 2020, in an effort to tackle the...

There has been a significant increase in the number of Britons registering an interest in buying property in Spain post-Brexit, according...

Property prices across London’s prime housing markets continued to fall in the run-up to the EU referendum, with further declines anticipated...

UK property shares fell sharply yesterday amid growing uncertainty following the EU referendum vote and the suspension of trading in three...

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

More than a quarter of residential property sales fell through in the UK during the second quarter of the year mainly because...

The UK’s construction industry suffered its worst contraction since 2009 in June as uncertainty around the EU referendum led to concern...

The world’s wealthiest people have seen their fortunes take a major hit by the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. Gripped...

Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is set to have a mixed impact on housing markets across London, according to...

Residential property prices in the UK increased marginally in June, despite greater uncertainty in the run-up to the EU referendum, the...

Brexit uncertainty led to demand falling to the lowest level seen since 2013, according to the latest housing market report. The report...

Despite widespread reports that international businesses are already pulling investment from the UK in light of the EU referendum result, one estate...

Brexit concerns have not dented first-time buyers’ appetite to own their own home, according to estate agents Your Move and Reeds...

Gross mortgage lending reached £18.2bn in May, the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) reveal. Lending was 4% higher...

A sharp fall in the value of the UK pound against the euro, after Britons voted to leave the EU, will...

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

It is less than 24 hours until polls open for the EU referendum - and a new survey suggests that Leave is...

Residential property sales in the UK increased by 1.5% in May compared with April but the month’s seasonally adjusted figure is...

Homeowners selling their homes in southern regions of the UK have seen the greatest rise in demand for their properties of...

Fewer households across the UK perceive that the value of their home rose in June, according to the latest house price...

Property auction sales rose sharply in May on the back of a significant increase in the volume of lots offered under...

The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead of the EU referendum is causing high levels of uncertainty in...

With bookmakers now offering the shortest ever odds on the UK voting to leave the EU, some homes are being sold...

The majority of Britons who fear that the price of their property will fall if Britain leaves the EU believe that the...

Residential property prices in the UK fell by 0.4% in May, the steepest decline since November 2011, as the European Union...

House prices in the UK are expected to rise further regardless of whether Britain opts to remain or leave the European...

House prices are still rising but surveyors are warning the market to be braced for a significant slowdown in the coming...

Housing market activity in the UK remained healthy as overall valuation activity in May increased by almost a fifth on an...

Residential property prices in the UK rose by 0.6% in May, twice the rate forecast in a Reuters poll of economists...

A growing number of property investors are adding clauses into contracts giving buyers the right to walk away from commercial property...

Up to £900bn worth of property investment in this country will be at risk of harm if the UK votes to...

Residential property prices in cities such as Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester have increased significantly over the past year, a survey...

Demand for residential property across the UK has fallen to one of the lowest levels on record as prospective buyers and...

UK farmland prices have dropped back below £8,000 an acre following an average 3% decline in values in the first quarter...

A marina is not the sort of lot that you would usually see featured in a property auction but investors turned...

Mortgage rates in the UK could increase in the short-term if Britain votes to leave the European Union, according to the...

Significantly more first-time-buyers would have a chance of getting a foot on the property ladder if Britain votes to leave the...

The pound rose 1% against the dollar yesterday and also strengthened against the euro amid signs that the 'remain' camp is pulling...

Demand for residential properties unsurprisingly fell in April following the introduction of higher stamp duty for buy-to-let and second home buyers,...

A vote to leave the EU would have a ‘major hit’ on residential property prices across the UK and increase the...

Activity in the UK housing market is slowing, as reflected by a fall in the annual rate of property price growth,...

There has been a notable rise in Scottish property sales and prices in recent months, although activity in the market has...

There has been a notable fall in the number of overseas nationals investing in the UK’s commercial property sector due to...

Hometrack forecast that residential property prices will continue to rise, albeit at a slower rate of growth. The latest figures released by...

Property investments in London are likely to attract more overseas investors, as the UK Britain decides whether to stay in the...

Residential property prices across many parts of the UK look set to cool over the next few months amid ‘Brexit’ uncertainty, but...

The rental market in prime central London is starting to slow following a year of record breaking growth with rents either...

Property investors have warned that if the UK were to leave the European Union then it would be a worse place...

New research by Carter Jonas has warned that a vote for Britain to leave the European Union – commonly known as...

There has been a marked recovery in the £2 million+ country house market, according to estate agency Strutt & Parker. The firm...