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The largest lettings agency in Scotland says purchases by landlords and other investor buyers in that country have risen sharply despite...

Hamptons has launched a residential investment department - and it’s using the sister Connells brand to give new homes more exposure...

The average price of property coming to the market for sale rises by 1.5% (+£5,279) this month to £368,118, as the...

The Chancellor has abolished multiple dwellings relief for stamp duty land tax. Relief from SDLT for multiple dwellings in England and Northern Ireland...

UK house prices rose by 0.7 per cent in February, says the Nationwide, after taking account of seasonal effects. This resulted in...

London-focussed property data firm LonRes says there are signs of green shoots in the capital’s prime housing market. January saw a rise...

Sales Market: The UK housing market is at an inflection point, which means mixed signals for buyers and sellers. Inflation has fallen...

A property analyst has taken the long view and produced an optimistic snapshot of the current housing market for investors. Anthony Codling...

Investors relying on capital appreciation are in for a pleasant surprise in 2024 according to Knight Frank. Tom Bill, head of the...

A house price index has indicated a gentle rise in capital appreciation coming through at the end of 2023, and says...

Savills has revealed the residential element of its annual cross-sector forecasts for investments in 2024 to 2028. The agency says turbulence in...

British interest in international property has dipped slightly, claims property portal Kyero. It says British buyers await a possible relaxation of post-Brexit...

A property search company - Recoco - has given a radical reassessment of some investment hotspots in its preview of 2024. Nigel...

The average sale price of completed home transactions using cash or mortgages in England and Wales in October 2023 fell by...

Investors are buying second homes in the North East and North West at an increased rate compared to the rest of...

Savills is warning that the average UK house price is projected to fall by a further 3.0 per cent in 2024...

Lots submitted to residential auctions have more than doubled in numbers in recent months. Fresh figures released by EIG Property Auctions show...

Prime London markets are proving more resilient to rising interest rates than their mainstream equivalents, says high end agency Savills. Prices in...

In August, Dubai's real estate market experienced a remarkable surge, presenting an exciting opportunity for investors like myself. Sales soared by...

The tough economic climate has seen the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad increase its stake in the UK’s mortgage market to...

Market analysis by Sirius Property Finance, a debt advisory firm, reveals that commercial property transactions are down 67 per cent while...

With the high cost of transactions making flipping less attractive than before, the Nationwide has quantified an alternative option - home...

Cash-paying investors are swooping in and making purchases for less than their mortgage counterparts, new data suggests. In June 2023 cash buyers...

Cyprus Sotheby’s International Realty has published its quarterly report analysing the performance of the Cyprus residential real estate market in the...

The number of completed Build-to-Rent homes in the UK has increased 13 per cent in the past year to 88,100 units...

Research by Alliance Fund, the end to end real estate fund, has revealed that while Greater London may have seen the...

The capital city’s super-top-end property transactions rose by 30% last year, and that is likely to continue in 2023. Multi-millionaires and billionaires...

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

New data from Knight Frank has been released to help understand what to expect from the property market this autumn. August saw...

Alternative asset manager, Gresham House, has formed a partnership with leading social impact real estate firm HSPG. The partnership will help...

The fast growth of the BTR sector has continued with Drum Property Group completing the construction of 324 Build to Rent (BTR) apartments on behalf...

Securing a property in Spain seems to be at the top of the agenda for many Brits. Residency service for non-EU-buyers,...

Average house price values are set to rise by a total of 12.9% by the end of 2026, but affordability pressures...

Residential property in Cyprus continued to be in high demand in April 2022, with 938 successful transactions completed on the island...

Market analysis from Octane Capital has revealed that the number of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in England has dropped in...

Homebuilders are reportedly utilising technology to dramatically reduce the time it takes to exchange on a new-build transition, the latest research...

Russian residential property purchases contributed an estimated £190 million in market value and £13.2 million in stamp duty tax last year,...

In this guest article, reproduced in full from an original post on LinkedIn, co-founder of AGO Hotels, Viv Watts, outlines why UK hotel investment is...

Prime Central London (PCL) was hit harder by most than the pandemic, as international buyers stayed away (due to Covid travel...

We’re already into the second month of 2022, but predictions on what the market could bring for the remainder of the...

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

Following a successful year in PropTech last year, spatial data technology company Pupil predicts that 2022 will be the year that...

The borough of Wandsworth sits top as London’s prime property hotspot over the last year, accounting for the highest level of...

Smartlands - the first company to tokenise property in the UK, and one we've covered a number times on PIT in recent...

New-build homes account for 6.5% of pandemic property purchases, new research from Unlatch finds. The new-build sales optimisation platform looked at the...

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

The number one buy-to-let (BTL) hotspot next year will be the North West, according to new findings from SevenCapital and Zoopla. The...

London homebuyers managed to save over £1 billion since the stamp duty holiday first launched in July 2020. The latest analysis by...

Who are you? Daniel James McGowran MNAEA, originally from London, now living in Shropshire. What does it say on your business card? “Love...

The Student Property team of global property consultancy Knight Frank has launched Capital House in Southampton on behalf of joint venture partners Kier Property...

London remains one of the most desirable locations to live in the world, despite its ranking as the sixth most expensive...

In part three of our series on the booming commercial to residential sector, we look at some of the recent schemes...

In this guest piece, Martin Dell, Founder of Kyero, explores what makes overseas properties, particularly those in France, an attractive option...

Black History Month, an annual event with origins dating back to late 1960s USA and celebrated in the UK since 1987,...

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

Recent reports that over half of all London homes on the market last year were downvalued by lenders was somewhat concerning...

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

In what will be seen as a major win, one of the UK’s leading developers and managers of retirement communities has...

Building and construction software company ProjectPay has recently launched a new platform to remove builder risk on construction projects. Project financiers and...

Property construction work is now underway in Middleton St George, Darlington. Maven Capital Partners (Maven), a leading UK property and private...

Buyers now have only 92 days to benefit from the second stage of the stamp duty holiday before the nil rate...

Introducing a stamp duty holiday at the height of the pandemic was commendable but it has overstayed its welcome, says Tom...

During the pandemic, it has often been said that the importance of a home being near transport links has lessened considerably...

The Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) sector is an incredibly exciting industry to be in right now with a very promising future...

When will the UK’s property bubble burst? This question has become increasingly prevalent over recent months. The fact it has is a...

The prime end of the market has been one of the hardest hit by Covid-19, but Euroterra Capital – known as...

More money was spent in the housing market in England and Wales in the year to March than any 12-month period...

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and the start of the first lockdown in March 2020, major auction houses up...

This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at Landwood Group’s success with auctions, the launch of Strettons’ May auction catalogue,...

For most people, selling a property means doing so on the open market, usually through a local estate agent. This method...

Real estate funding specialist ASK Partners and OakNorth Bank have completed a £22 million co-loan for the next phase of an...

The number of sales transactions in the Prime Central London (PCL) market recorded in March was the highest since March 2016,...

Last week, Global Citizen Solutions – a boutique migration investment firm headquartered in Lisbon – held a webinar to discuss the...

As we welcome April, Property Investor Today outlines the lots available at Strettons, one of the largest lots ever available at auction...

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

Nearly 800,000 home moves (2.6%) have taken place in the last year, despite numerous periods of lockdown restrictions and the wider...

Work has commenced on a £9.2 million housing scheme in Castleford, West Yorkshire, which will transform a brownfield site into high-quality,...

For many years, residential property has been the default choice for investors looking to preserve and grow their wealth. In times...

Investors trying to expand their portfolios can avoid delays caused by residential buyers taking advantage of the Chancellor's stamp duty extension by using four 'buy-to-let hacks', according to broker Mortgages...

After several years of growth across all real estate segments, 2020 was anticipated to maintain this trend. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic...

LaSalle Investment Management has become the first institutional investment landlord in the UK to complete re-cladding at a cost in excess...

A leading Spanish property expert says that British citizens still account for the largest proportion of buyers on the Spanish Costas,...

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

This week shows a promising selection of investment opportunities available at auction. Here at Property Investor Today, we take a closer...

To no-one’s surprise, there haven’t been petitions or concerted pressure from the public, MPs and trade bodies regarding the introduction of...

The annual price decline in prime central London (PCL) was 4.3% for the third consecutive month in January, while average rents...

Engel & Völkers Spain reported a total of 2,624 sales transactions worth just over €1,600 million In 2020, with a 2.6%...

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

It goes without saying that 2020 was an incredibly eventful year for us all. The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns meant...

The latest Marketview report from CBRE has revealed that the UK Build to Rent (BTR) sector recorded a total of £955.7...

Following one of the most disruptive and challenging years in living memory, I have no doubt that many of those in...

Despite 2020 being a turbulent year for many businesses across the UK, the property market actually saw a mini-industry boom. As...

To kick off the New Year, our friends at 11K Consulting - the UK's leading China PR and comms agency - have...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA) could almost double and become a more mainstream way of buying and selling if people...

With mixed views of what 2021 could bring to the property market, Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine & Country UK...

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

As property investors, it is very important that we monitor house price trends when assessing new deals and during existing long-term...

Sometimes even seasoned investors will need guidance, help and assistance, particularly during times of crisis and uncertainty. With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic,...

October was a fruitful month for auctioneers, with iamsold, Auction House and Strettons seeing good results from their most recent sales....

Before the lockdown announcement was made, the number of transactions completed was returning to pre-Covid levels. That is according to Nicky Stevenson,...