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With analysis from property lender Together finding that, as of 2023, there are 1.55m abandoned residential homes worth £531 billion across...

National Landlord Investment Show has announced that the former Leader of the Conservative Party, the Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith,...

A new study conducted by comparison site GetAgent has revealed the most in-demand locations to buy a second property in. Global searches...

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

A prime town centre shop unit in Bromsgrove is listed with a starting price of £250,000 in Bond Wolfe’s next auction. The...

The UK house building industry needs “significant intervention” from government to address planning, quality and financial problems according to the Competition...

Calling all landlords, Investors and property professionals: National Landlord Investment Show returns to Olympia London on 6th March for its first...

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

The Nationwide - the mortgage lender behind one of the UK’s leading house price indices - says there have been some...

Organisers say the seventh Ghana Property and Lifestyle Expo 2023, which took place recently in Chelsea, saw a record number of...

The latest lettings market forecast from Savills says average UK rents to end 2023 at up 9.5 per cent year on...

Research by peer-to-peer investment business easyMoney reveals that London is the hotspot for investors who are looking to purchase ready-made property...

A number of daily-traded open-ended property funds have announced a temporary suspension of trading or an intention to close altogether.  In a...

A property entrepreneur best known for having been a contestant on The Apprentice is seeking up to 200 portfolio landlords or...

Following three years of seismic shifts in the property sector, the UK is moving towards a ‘new normal’ – with the...

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

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

Whilst macro conditions suggest a retrenchment in real estate values across much of the West, the last year has seen real...

Two experts on Spanish property have come together to launch a Spanish property podcast. Sean Woolley from Cloud Nine Spain and Mark...

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...

The leading provider of cloud-based, Dye & Durham, efficient workflow software for legal and business professionals, is significantly upgrading its Index...

Native Group has announced the creation of Native Residential as a new business entity, as well as announcing a range of promotions and new...

Pitch 4 Finance has announced that it is relaunching as Provide Finance, heralding a new era for sourcing, and securing specialist...

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

Specialist lender Together has approved a £3.6 million funding facility for housing development in South Yorkshire. Walshaw Homes will construct 22...

As the idea of a new prime minister takes effect, how the government tackles the economic challenges facing the country remains...

Following Liz Truss’s victory last week, Nicola Gooch and Claire Petricca-Riding of Irwin Mitchell have put the below together as to...

If our auction roundups are any indication, it is no surprise that selling a property via online auction continues to rise...

A significant nationwide study by leading specialist lender, Together predicts the UK specialist residential mortgage market will treble to £16 billion...

New research shows that an average of £1.2 million is being spent by investors to purchase full property portfolios. These ready-made property...

A few years ago, we carried out an interview with Tzvete Doncheva, who has become one of the most prominent PropTech...

New research shows that the buying trends of property investors are changing. In hope of boosting their property portfolios, investors have...

In this latest BTR roundup, PIT explores the opening date for a scheme in Olympic hub Stratford, work beginning on the...

This week, PIT takes a look at the latest in the world of auctions. iamproperty reports a milestone result, while Auction...

The average UK house price hit a fresh high in May, rising for the 11th month in a row, according to...

The UK private rented sector has become increasingly attractive to institutional, large-scale investors in recent years as returns on investment elsewhere...

Puma Property Finance (PPF) recently announced it has provided funding to finance a £65 million GDV 26-storey residential apartment block in...

Transport for London (TfL) is putting its heads together with regeneration specialist, Vistry Partnership, and housing association, Peabody, on proposals that could...

A residential real estate investment manager has published a White Paper on the Build to Rent (BTR) sector and the pivotal...

In a week of blazing weather, PIT shines a light on the latest auction news, from a new property auctioneer coming...

Last week the £3 billion vision for the future of Queensway in West London was unveiled, including Parisian-style street pavilions, significant...

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

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

The UK Government’s policy of improving the quality of life outside of London is central to its raison d'être. ‘Levelling up’...

This mini development roundup includes the strategic partnership between Places for People and ilke Homes to deliver new homes in the...

Dave Butler recently stood down as the CEO of the UKAA (the UK Apartment Association), the main membership body for the...

In this week’s roundup, PIT takes a look at the latest UK schemes, including the newest phase in Barratt London and...

PIT was recently invited along by the Vonder Wembley team to spend a weekend at its flagship development and enjoy the...

With bricks and mortar proving ever-popular and house prices continuing to rise, the opportunities for first-time and seasoned property investors are endless. That...

The pandemic has had a major impact on our lives and the global economy. Our beloved property sector was by no...

With new research finding over 10 million UK adults are considering becoming a holiday let landlord and the volume and total...

Alliance Investments, the sale arm of Property Alliance Group, has announced its strategic partnership with EGCC Group to launch a new...

The Property Investor Show returns on April 1-2 at London’s ExCeL Centre and is anticipated to be ‘bigger and better attended...

This week’s development roundup is green-focused, with Together’s generous funding package for a new low-carbon homebuilding scheme and plans submitted for...

A Birmingham-based property developer has partnered with charity Global Aid Network (GAiN) to collect donations for Ukrainian refugees. Cordia Blackswan is set to offer its...

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

A property developer and operator is aiming to have a major say in the fast-growing Build to Rent (BTR) sector, with...

The government’s Levelling Up Home Building Fund is unlikely to provide enough funding to supply loans to all of the nation’s...

We’ve entered a new month, which means new beginnings and refreshed confidence as we navigate a post-Covid world. Quite aptly, this...

In this week's development roundup, Property Investor Today looks at a new ambitious scheme that will see rough sleepers in Basildon...

It’s a new year – 11 more months lie ahead. With some discipline and focus you could be much closer to your investment...

This week we’re going commercial, with Allsop’s commercial auction achieving a 91% success rate this month and Shepherd Commercial Auctions appointed...

All property investments require maintenance and one of the most common issues is damp; a problem that is at its worst...

In this guest piece, Neil Smith, managing director UK and Ireland at Scape, sets out how providers of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA)...

In this week’s roundup, Property Investor Today takes a look at the latest development news, from Downing’s development spree after a major...

Galliard has purchased three major London commuter sites, which together have a combined GDV (gross development value) of approximately £265 million,...

In the first auction roundup of 2022, PIT takes a look at the latest auction news; from iamproperty’s successful year with...

Residential developer HUB and pan-European real estate investment manager MARK have acquired 2 Snow Hill Plaza in Birmingham from a global...

A specialist alternative asset manager has committed £12 million, alongside several significant public sector bodies, as part of a public-private partnership to regenerate...

Just over a year ago (December 31 2020), the transition period for Brits to retire to European Union countries without the...

On Tuesday, the government launched a six-week consultation on proposals to make it easier and cheaper for leaseholders to purchase the...

Paragon Development Finance has provided Burrington Estates with a £28 million funding package to support its 'prestigious' Winslade Park development in Exeter. Burrington Estates is redeveloping...

As we begin 2022, Andrea Fawell, sales and marketing director of property developers Kebbell, gives a very honest account of the market factors that are...

A lettings expert and tenant’s rights campaigner has warned that any progress on climate change as a result of the COP26...

With the leasehold scandal ongoing, and long-promised reform still some way off or incomplete, leasehold enfranchisement is arguably more important than...

James Gray from Cluttons discusses why the race to net zero is the wrong wording - and it should be all...

This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at the latest development news, from an architect's pledge to design a hotel-style student...

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

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

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

Sean Woolley from Cloud Nine Spain reports that although they are an estate agent who has had predominantly British buyers over...

This week’s auction roundup is a mixed bag, so to speak, with Savills announcing its new head of auctions and Propertymark...

Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Group and a leading UK specialist real estate lender and investor, has revealed that it has...

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 involves another bumper month for SDL Property Auctions as it partners with Rightmove to revolutionise auctions, as...

Since the start of the pandemic, recent figures have shown that more than 11,000 second-home owners in England have opened their...

Subsidence damage, if left untreated, can cost homeowners anywhere between £3,000 to over £250,000 – meaning it could prove very costly to...

In this ongoing series, PIT will explore whether commercial to residential conversions – one of the biggest trends during the pandemic as...

The Labour Party is calling for “sustained investment” in public services that could help resolve the building safety crisis and prevent...

In April 2020, right in the heart of the first lockdown, we ran a guest piece from Harvey Raybould about whether...

After a hiatus of nearly two years, where shows had to take place virtually instead, the National Landlord Investment Show says...

Millions of people privately renting or in social housing fear a revenge eviction if they raise fire safety concerns with landlords. Despite...

Last week, PIT spoke to some of the UK’s biggest and most successful auctioneers to find out if they planned to...

A development of 21 flats in Hanley was given the green light in a bid to regenerate the area. ALB Group put...

New research by specialist lender Together reveals that there is rising demand for serviced apartments with almost three-quarters of UK adults valuing...

Lender Fiduciam has provided a £5 million development loan for the construction of a £10 million seven-storey residential apartment building in...

Real estate consultancy, Knight Frank has been instructed by Maven Capital, IP Investment Management and Glenmore Group to dispose of three...

The nation’s TV viewers just can’t get enough of property shows and I confess that we at SDL Property Auctions are...

For property developers, show homes and marketing suites play a key role when it comes to advertising and selling properties in...