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Alliance Investments, the sales arm of Property Alliance Group, has revealed its latest development – The Residence in trendy Clapham – which it says...

With the Build to Rent (BTR) sector no longer a new phenomenon, and fast becoming a well-established part of the PRS,...

There’s no doubt that, when people think of Paddington, they think first of the iconic character created by Michael Bond in...

Jide Taiwo & Co., the estate surveyors and valuers’ firm for both individual and corporate clients from Nigeria, are beginning their...

Historically, there was a very clear gap between the North and South of England in terms of the house price growth....

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

In this guest piece, Dennis Chan, head of international sales at Chestertons, gives his take on the off plan market and...

The Chartered Institute of Housing’s (CIH) upcoming 2022 Housing Review shows the lack of clear government strategies and insufficient financial incentives...

In this guest piece, Reece Mennie, chief executive of HJ Collection, outlines his predictions for the property market in 2022.  When looking...

With the new year now upon us, the predictions for what 2022 could bring from a property investment perspective continue to...

It's been another busy year for those with a stake in the UK property market, with commercial to residential transformations, Build...

In this guest piece, Jamie Pritchard, head of sales at Glenhawk, asks whether macroeconomic challenges are going to halt the renewed momentum of...

Already nearly three years late and vastly over-budget, Crossrail 1 – which will officially be known as the Elizabeth Line when...

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

One of the biggest criticisms of the fast-growing Build to Rent (BTR) market has been its perceived exclusive nature and its...

In this Q&A, Property Investor Today speaks to Sean Gavin, Operations Director at Berkeley South East London, for his thoughts on...

An alternative investment fund manager has announced it has provided a senior loan of more than £100 million (£103 million) to...

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

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

Shopping centres have taken a hit in recent years thanks to changing shopping habits, the growth of online retail, a decline...

Elephant & Castle is, without doubt, an incongruous area – very busy, chaotic and some might say ugly, but also full...

One of the biggest trends during the pandemic from a property development point of view has been a dramatic increase in...

In 2018, the total value of commercial property in the UK sat at over £880 billion, when the office market was at...

With the rise in people relocating permanently to the British coast as holidaying takes a backseat, Chris Baguley, commercial managing director...

With the property market undergoing tumultuous changes since the onset of the pandemic, recent figures from A-Plan Insurance has highlighted the...

The Covid-19 crisis has led to some big questions about the future of cities, and whether enough people will want to...

After much anticipation, many British citizens are hoping to soak up some sun in their dream destination. The foreign travel ‘traffic...

One of the biggest debates raging at the moment concerns the future of the high street, which has been hit harder...

A new report by a card payment provider has revealed which commuter towns and cities in the UK have seen the biggest movement...

The stamp duty holiday – which began in July last year and will continue in its current format until the end...

More than a year since the first lockdown began, Quinta do Lago – a key part of the Algarve’s famous Golden...

In one of the clearest signs yet of an office to residential revolution, the City of London has revealed that it...

This week, Property Investor Today looks at the historic lots on offer at Network Auctions and Pugh, as well as a...

Property investors are recognising the shifts in the way people work and eyeing up the ‘lucrative’ short-term rental market as a...

The coronavirus vaccine roll-out is going far better than any of us could ever have imagined, with more than a third...

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

A new thought leadership paper has looked at where, what and why Chinese high-net-worth-individuals (HWNIs) and investors are buying and developing in...

Since the coronavirus crisis began, there has been lots of talk about the death of the city-centre as people seek more...

Here at Property Investor Today, we are always keen to focus on major regeneration projects and cities and towns undergoing major...

There is no question that Covid-19 has completely torn through the UK economy, with any signs of recent recovery likely to...

Following on from our profile of Montenegro last week, we focus here on another up-and-coming part of Eastern Europe. Bucharest, the...

Buy-to-let landlords and investors are anxiously anticipating the planned hike to Capital Gains Tax (CGT), which would drastically increase the amount...

January 7 2021 marked the launch of a new national committee, supported by The UK Apartment Association (UKAA), looking to improve...

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

A Midlands estate agent is the latest to convert to live stream property viewings after six months of using an Australian-designed...

In this guest piece, Andrea Fawell, sales & marketing director of award-winning property developers Kebbell, tackles many of the important factors...

The UK property market is in a state of flux. Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic has had a marked effect on landlords,...

Since the pandemic started, there has been a shift in the number of people seeking homes away from the city, or...

The property predictions for 2021 continue to roll in, as the sector looks ahead to the upcoming 12 months. Here, we get...

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

For most people, 2020 has been a very difficult year. The Covid-19 pandemic has had devastating consequences on so many aspects...

In the decades since Portugal became one of the go-to destinations for British holidaymakers, second home owners and investors, one part...

Lockdown has driven a significant increase in UK residents browsing home overseas, according to new data released by Kyero.com, an online...

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed so many things for so many people. For international real estate agents in Spain, it has...

If you are dreaming of buying a property in Spain, there is so much to think about and many things to...

Covid-19 has furthered the decline of the high street and led to major city centres becoming virtual ghost towns as office...

The 31 October 2020 is a big day for me and my family. It is the day we fly out of...

Lockdown measures have left the UK’s residential rental sector struggling to deal with a period of unpaid rents, occupancy voids, and...

Affordable housing is very often a thorny bone of contention. Arbitrary government targets are regularly missed and this part of the...

Slough is benefiting from the property market’s post-lockdown mini-boom, with a major developer in the area saying it is continuing to...

Across the world, people buying and selling homes are having to adapt to new ways of doings things as a result...

LCP, a national commercial property and investment company, has announced that the last apartment in a transformed office-residential conversion in Oxford...

Whitby in North Yorkshire has been named the UK's most in-demand coastal location, according to fresh research from property website Rightmove. The...

Here at Property Investor Today, we recently caught up with David Conlon, the founder of en masse bespoke interiors to ask...

With the dawning realisation that there will be a long-term legacy to the way we live our lives post-Covid-19, a leading...

There has been much speculation about how quickly the UK residential property market will recover from the economic fallout of the...

The knock-on effects of the spread of coronavirus and the subsequent government lockdown will result in 56,000 fewer homes being delivered...

The coronavirus crisis has shut down most aspects of normal life, but with us all being told to stay at home...

In an unprecedented global climate, and with the new tax year looming, investors everywhere will be thinking about the future and...

Eutopia Homes, a developer specialising in mid-market homes for rent and for sale, has secured planning permission for a new sustainable...

Newly-appointed Chancellor Rishi Sunak should use the forthcoming Budget to ‘produce a level playing field for taxation’ with the short-term letting...

Experience Invest, a London-based firm which provides property investors in the UK and overseas access to exclusive investments across a variety of...

A start date has been announced for a ‘much-anticipated’ housing development in central Slough, as the town continues to transform itself...

With a whole new decade nearly upon us, now seems as good a time as any to look back on the...

Last week we explored whether senior living - a rental model aimed at the over-75s - could be the next major property...

In its latest project, Birmingham-based Prosperity Developments has been given the green light to transform a huge retail unit in Birkenhead town...

Coventry has been named the top UK housing hotspot for 18-34 year olds. The research, conducted by regulated property buyer Good Move,...

Property developer Click Properties says it has witnessed a marked increase in enquiries from investors from both the US and the...

The average house price in London now stands at £483,100, which is 13 times more than typical earnings in the capital,...

The latest research by Jackson-Stops has revealed that, at £245 per square foot, properties once home to clergymen offer the best...

Average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of 2018, with December showing a continuation of the steady rise...

Who are you? Paul Staley What does it say on your business card? Director of PRS at SDL Property Management. What is SDL Property Management? As...

The minimum income first-time buyers require to purchase a home in the UK has rocketed by 18% in the past three...

Spain is still the top choice when it comes to Brits retiring to Europe, new figures from the Office for National...

France has been revealed as the top choice of EU country for British emigrants when it comes to moving overseas with...

The Ideal Home Show, taking place at Olympia London from Saturday 17 March to Monday 2 April, heralds one of the...

The latest HMRC receipt shows £5.5 billion was taken in capital gains tax (CGT) in January, while the taxman is set...

Rental price inflation has now lagged behind general rate of inflation, despite average rents across the UK rising by 0.7% in...

England has encountered a rift between new build completions and new households being added to the population after a slow output...

Growth in residential property prices in the UK continued to slow, but the cost of the average home still increased by...

Residential property price in the UK rebounded in June after falling for three months, fresh data from Nationwide has revealed. House prices...

Any and all businesses will see benefits by using an Intelligent Call Management system - but this can be a huge...

Britain’s housing market is once again proving resilient despite political turmoil caused by Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general...

Demand for commercial office space in Sheffield remains remarkably strong, driving upward pressure on rental prices and increasing the demand for...

Annual house price growth continues to slow, as affordability issues deter many prospective homebuyers. With 2017 proving to be a rather challenging time...

New housing experienced solid growth in March, up 3.8% on the month, despite a 0.7% drop in wider UK construction output,...

Prime commercial property rental values in the UK increased by 0.8% in the first quarter of the year, the latest prime...

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

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

London’s housing market continues to slow, with the latest figures revealing that prices increased at their slowest rate for nearly five...

Average UK prime yields sharpened to 4.79% in February 2017, with the UK now in the longest sustained period of decreasing...

Residential property prices in England and Wales now cost 7.6 times the average income, up from 3.6 times earnings in 1997,...

With high demand from tenants continuing to place upward pressure on rents, a growing number of national and international investors are...

A significant increase in overseas investment in UK regional property was one of the main drivers behind the strength of the...

UK house prices may have ended last year around £15,000 higher on average than when the year started, but the signs...

UK inflation has reached its highest rate since June 2014, mainly due to the increasing cost of fuel and food. Annual inflation...

Rents in the UK prime commercial property sector rose by an average of 0.4% in the fourth quarter of 2016, the...

The volume of investment in Portugal’s commercial property market could hit an all-time high of €2bn (£1.7bn) this year, up from...

The prime minister’s pledge to withdraw the UK from the single market has been cautiously welcomed by leading business figures and...

Prime commercial property rents in Dublin will increase by more than 4% in 2017, according to fresh research by Cushman &...

Richard Barber, director at Prime Central London estate agency W.A.Ellis, part of the JLL Group, offers his thoughts on what property market...

For many people investing in residential properly remains an attractive income investment at a time of low saving rates and stock...

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

Residential property price inflation across the UK is continuing to slow, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

Undeterred by the news of Brexit, investors from across the world were attracted by the long term secure income and exceptional...

Residential property prices in Scotland rose 0.6% month-on-month in September, taking the average price above £170,000 for the first time since...

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

Inflation in the UK will quadruple to around 4% in the second half of 2017, which would slash disposable income, according...

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

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

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

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

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

House price inflation across the UK dropped to 8.3% in the year to July, down from 9.7% in June, according to...

An increase in housebuilding levels helped to ensure that overall construction output remained flat in July following a 1% drop in...

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

Gavin Barwell MP has been warmly welcomed by various property industry professionals to his new role as housing minister, but is...

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

Housebuilders are responding to high demand from buyers and renters by increasing the level of residential construction, as reflected by the...

The level of housebuilding in the UK rose to its highest-ever level in the first quarter of this year, despite a...

There remains a severe shortage of affordable office space in the capital despite the fact that London office starts have soared...

Rents in the UK prime commercial property sector rose by an average of 1.4% in the first quarter of this year,...

The decline in the rate of homeownership seen over the past decade in this country looks set to continue as a...

There was a sharp rise in the number of new homes under construction in February, despite an overall fall in construction...

Analysis of official figures has revealed the worst performing UK location for average house price growth since the first quarter of...

A new survey conducted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has claimed that property investment is seen as a better...

Rent rises for one bedroom flats increased significantly last month, according to the second Landbay Rental Index. Average rents for one bed...

I’ve seen a sharp rise this year in the number of foreign investors looking to establish a presence or even expand...

I recently visited Life Residential at their bright and modern West London headquarters. I carried out a quick interview with Joint Managing...