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![Top UK cities for 2024 rental potential revealed by industry supplier](/upload/images/24%2002%2029%20%20%2002.jpg)
Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024. Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Investment boost for Build To Rent in major UK cities](/upload/images/24%2002%2008%2004.jpg)
The latest Build To Rent report prepared by lettings agency Savills claims 2023 saw a total of £4.5 billion of investment...
08 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Short Leases boost Commercial Returns but harder work for landlords](/upload/images/__thumbs/23%2011%2009%202.jpg/23%2011%2009%202__400x267.jpg)
The commercial property market has performed well in recent years, although trends differ from inner city and local markets, reports Dutton...
09 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Liverpool - the new northern hotspot to watch out for](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Flags%20%26%20Locations/Liverpool400x310.jpg)
In recent years, Liverpool has been leading the way as a major northern hotspot. As one of the top ten UK...
04 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![BTR boom! New analysis suggests sector could increase five-fold by 2032](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/ConstructionWorkers-400x310.png)
Every quarter the British Property Federation (BPF) and Savills work together, along with data specialists Molior, to plot a Build to...
21 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – the cheapest UK cities to flip a house](/upload/images/Developments%20%26%20Projects/Construction%20and%20Maintenance/AdobeStock_401499574.jpeg)
There has been a significant increase in demand for move-in-ready homes and CIA Landlord Insurance has taken the liberty to research...
12 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insight: The best UK cities to be an Airbnb host this August](/upload/images/library/airbnb-logo400x310.png)
With the public still very much favouring staycations and avoiding the chaos of travelling abroad, Airbnb hosts in the UK are...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![BTR growth - from Stratford and Sheffield to Reading](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/360x280_ARPM.png)
In this latest BTR roundup, PIT explores the opening date for a scheme in Olympic hub Stratford, work beginning on the...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb experts reveal best UK cities to be a host this August](/upload/images/Logos/Airbnb2-400x310.png)
Air travel has reduced in demand since before the pandemic by as much as 76%, a sign that staycations are still...
22 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - firm delivers £10.4m cash returns to buy-to-let investors](/upload/images/Locations/ManchesterMap-400x310.jpg)
Sequre Property Investment has announced a £10.4 million cash realisation for over 1,400 investors over the last 12 months, across its...
06 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - UK cities that student landlords should invest in](/upload/images/Locations/London.jpg)
Letting to students can be an excellent opportunity for landlords and investors. Landlords and investors who are aware of yearly revenue from...
11 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![‘Change is needed’ – £700k raised for online student rental platform](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/HYBRStudents-400x310.png)
The online platform of a student rentals company has raised £700,000 in its first funding round as it continues to disrupt...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Development update – green light given for several green homes](/upload/images/Site%20logos/DevelopmentRoundup-400x310.png)
This week, Property Investor Today takes a look at the latest development news, from 160 new green homes coming to Croxley Green...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insight – where are the best areas in the UK to invest in property in 2022?](/upload/images/Locations/EnglandMap-400x310.jpg)
New research from Currys and Swann has revealed the best UK areas to invest in a property in 2022, highlighting the price of...
06 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight: What the average house prices can get buyers across the UK](/upload/images/library/EnglandMap-400x310.jpg)
ConservatoryLand, a UK supplier of self-build conservatories, has analysed what the UK’s average house price of £270,000 can get buyers across...
24 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rents on the rise – UK rental demand increase by 10% in Q3](/upload/images/library/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
Estate and lettings agent Barrows and Forrester recently explored the rental demand across the nation during the third quarter of the...
06 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Bigger than London – buy-to-let goes regional](/upload/images/library/EnglandMap-400x310.jpg)
Are you a buy-to-let investor considering selling up? You’re not alone. Research by the Nottingham Building Society revealed that a fifth...
29 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – where are the UK’s top 20 towns for second homes?](/upload/images/Site%20logos/StaycationSeriesLogo-400x310.jpg)
With the recent staycation boom, which is likely to continue for future summers even as international travel opens up again, the...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - the best (& worst) cities to invest in property in the UK](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/coulters%20featured%20image.png)
Property investment can be a very lucrative endeavour for investors and landlords, and new research from the estate agency, Coulters, reveals...
18 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Sandstone - company launches fund across ten UK cities](/upload/images/library/BPS-LondonAerial-400x310.jpg)
A UK-based private property investment and management company has launched the Sandstone Residential REIT, focused on traditional residential property across ten...
13 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Graduate friendly cities – 10 best cities for UK graduates](/upload/images/library/Studentsimage400x310.jpg)
After graduating from university, priorities in life tend to shift. Studying and living near the university is no longer important, but...
11 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – the golden rules for armchair investing](/img/default/pit.png)
In this guest piece, Stuart Williams, director of property investment firm Thirlmere Deacon, outlines the golden rules for armchair investing. Over the...
12 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![For your viewing pleasure – top cities for virtual viewings revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Research by virtual property viewings platform U-See Homes has revealed which UK cities offer homebuyers the most opportunity to view a...
09 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Development roundup – new projects underway from Leicester to Leeds](/img/default/pit.png)
A national contractor says it has made ‘significant progress’ on three residential projects based in Leicester. The schemes from Stepnell include two...
02 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![PBSA investors – these university hotspots are offering the most homes](/img/default/pit.png)
Southampton, Portsmouth and Nottingham are the cities with the highest density of student rental availability, research from UniHomes has revealed. The student...
10 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![The big question – is buy-to-let still worth investing in?](/img/default/pit.png)
In recent years, buy-to-let investors and landlords might feel as if they have been deliberately targeted, with changes to mortgage interest...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – which UK cities are experiencing a property boom?](/img/default/pit.png)
Almost two thirds of the UK’s largest cities are experiencing a property selling boom, according to Apropos. The letting firm analysed year-on-year...
11 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – what does 2021 hold for the student market?](/img/default/pit.png)
As we get ever closer to leaving 2020 behind (and many might be happy to write this year off entirely), thoughts...
04 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Strong intentions: L&G commits large funding to Glasgow BTR scheme](/img/default/pit.png)
The seemingly endless procession of new Build to Rent developments is continuing apace, with one of the biggest players in this...
05 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed – German real estate investment company expands into UK](/img/default/pit.png)
A Berlin-based investment company has continued its expansion by establishing a presence in the UK. LINUS Capital finances real estate projects with...
28 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Manila and Budapest top of the list for global house price growth](/img/default/pit.png)
Knight Frank’s latest Global Residential Cities Index, which tracks the movement in mainstream residential prices across 150 cities worldwide using official...
03 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Insight – who is driving the Build to Rent boom?](/img/default/pit.png)
Before the coronavirus pandemic took hold, there could be no denying that Build to Rent (BTR) was the biggest property market...
15 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Grab your corg-keys – The UK’s most pet-friendly city for tenants revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
With the government pledging to put an end to pet bans, UK-based insurance broker Towergate Insurance has revealed the top 10...
26 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property predictions – what could happen to the housing market in 2020?](/img/default/pit.png)
Now that 2020 is underway, activity in the property market is likely to start picking up due to the traditional seasonal...
17 January 2020
From: Sponsored Content
![Where is the highest tenant demand for buy-to-let homes?](/img/default/pit.png)
The hottest UK cities for rental demand have been revealed by new research from rental management platform Howsy. The platform has examined...
13 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![London house prices bounce back for the first time in three years](/img/default/pit.png)
UK city house price growth has picked up by 2.9%, underpinned by a 1% increase in London house prices, according to...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Do regeneration projects need to consider their cultural responsibilities?](/img/default/pit.png)
In the last few months, Property Investor Today has run a series on London’s largest regeneration projects, many of which include...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Top ten buy-to-let locations for 2020 revealed](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite the buy-to-let sector seeing a raft of changes in recent years, demand from private tenants continues to grow and the...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Insight: what are Chinese tenants looking for from a London rental property?](/img/default/pit.png)
With approximately 120,250 Chinese people living in London, accounting for 1.5% of the capital's population, and many young Chinese people coming...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![How many bedrooms can you get for the average national house price?](/img/default/pit.png)
The average number of bedrooms buyers can get for the national average house price - £229,431 – in cities across the...
06 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![UK’s most expensive cities become more affordable](/img/default/pit.png)
The average house price in London now stands at £483,100, which is 13 times more than typical earnings in the capital,...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![House price growth in southern cities continues to slow, Zoopla research reveals](/img/default/pit.png)
The June Zoopla UK Cities House Price Index has revealed that average house price growth across southern cities is running at...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Luxury development continues to sell well in Birmingham’s thriving creative quarter](/img/default/pit.png)
Property firm LH1 London has sold more than 100 apartments at landmark Digbeth development ‘The Forge’ in the heart of Birmingham’s...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Income to buy hits £54,000 despite weaker city house price growth, Zoopla says](/img/default/pit.png)
The average income required for a first-time buyer (FTB) to purchase a home has grown 9% since 2016 and stands at...
03 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![House price growth decelerates as London slowdown extends to southern cities](/img/default/pit.png)
House prices in UK cities increased by 1.7% over the 12 months to March 2019, the same levels of growth recorded...
15 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![House price growth slowed annually in 2018, Zoopla reveals](/img/default/pit.png)
House price growth across UK cities reduced steadily throughout 2018, according to new analysis carried out as part of Zoopla’s UK...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Luxury accommodation specialists to hold event to offer tips to investor landlords](/img/default/pit.png)
Serviced accommodation specialists Pass the Property recently announced an upcoming event to showcase the company’s approach to creating luxury serviced accommodation. The...
09 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Millennials exiting London fuels rental growth in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds](/img/default/pit.png)
Rents in other UK cities are growing faster than both London and the UK average as workers relocate from the capital...
21 December 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property in the UK takes on average 102 days to sell](/img/default/pit.png)
It now takes, on average, 102 days to sell a property in the UK, according to Post Office Money. Its latest ‘City...
16 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Research reveals gulf between cost of building a house and its market value](/img/default/pit.png)
There is a huge gulf between the cost of building a house and its market value, according to new analysis from...
17 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Income required to buy a home rises by almost a quarter since 2015](/img/default/pit.png)
The minimum income first-time buyers require to purchase a home in the UK has rocketed by 18% in the past three...
28 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Manchester properties attract more overseas investors](/img/default/pit.png)
Manchester was revealed as one of the most popular UK cities for property investment among buyers in UAE, Saudi Arabia and...
08 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![London price growth hits seven year low, Index claims](/img/default/pit.png)
Two fifths of postcodes across London are registering year-on-year price falls, according to the latest Hometrack UK Cities House Price Index. The...
28 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Large regional cities set for house price surge](/img/default/pit.png)
Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester are among the top regional cities set for an increase in house prices over the next four...
28 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Brighton the latest city to join the Build to Rent revolution](/img/default/pit.png)
Brighton will soon receive its first ever Build to Rent (BTR) development following the announcement that Legal & General has exchanged...
02 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![London rental supply falls as sharp rise is recorded in other major UK cities](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest Property & Homemover Report, released by marketing consultancy TwentyCi, has shown a sharp rise in the number of rental...
12 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Home price to earnings ratio in London reaches all-time high](/img/default/pit.png)
The gap between house prices and average earnings has reached a record high in London, according to a new study conducted...
29 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Eight reasons why Birmingham is the UK’s next top property hotspot](/img/default/pit.png)
Birmingham was named as one of Europe’s top locations for property investment, and takes the number one spot amongst UK cities,...
15 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Prices in key UK cities up 5.1% in H1 2017](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices in key UK cities have proved resilient in the first half of the year, with growth of 5.1%,...
21 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property hotspot: Manchester is still ‘head and shoulders’ above the rest](/img/default/pit.png)
The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...
26 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![House prices in Manchester continue to rise faster than anywhere in the country](/img/default/pit.png)
Manchester remains the number one UK property hotspot, after it was revealed today that property values in the city increased faster...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![London’s property market is booming – if you know where to look](/img/default/pit.png)
Despite weakening growth in the capital, where values are around 80% higher than in 2009, there are still plenty of good...
10 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Residential land prices surge in key UK cities as values stabilise in central London](/img/default/pit.png)
With an urgent need to build significantly more new homes, competition is hotting up for land which is deemed suitable for...
09 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![House price inflation at 12-year high in large regional cities](/img/default/pit.png)
City level residential property price growth gained momentum in the first quarter of the year, rising by 3.5%, led by large...
28 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Manchester has fastest growing house prices in the UK](/img/default/pit.png)
Manchester has become the latest UK property hotspot, after it was revealed today that property values in the city increased faster...
24 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Northern regions are ‘now a primary focus’ for UK property investors](/img/default/pit.png)
With London’s housing market continuing to slow, a growing number of property investors are reportedly now turning their attentions to England’s...
27 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK house price growth continues to slow](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property price growth continues to slow across parts of the UK, led by falls in London where annual home price...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Plans approved for £20m Sheffield development](/img/default/pit.png)
Planning consent has been awarded for a £20m student accommodation scheme in Sheffield city centre. Sheffield City Council gave London-based developer Southern...
30 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![House price growth shifting from London to regional cities](/img/default/pit.png)
Property prices across the largest UK cities rose by an average of 7.2% in 2016, taking the 20 city average to...
20 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![House prices set to rise across major UK cities in 2017](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices across many of the UK’s largest 20 cities appear to offer plenty of room for growth in 2017,...
19 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![New dates for property development course announced](/img/default/pit.png)
LendInvest has released new dates for a training course aimed at aspiring property developers to be held early next year. The course...
28 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![UK house prices defy Brexit gloom, but slowdown intensifies down south](/img/default/pit.png)
The annual rate of home price growth across 20 of the largest UK cities hit 8.5% in September, up from 8.2%...
22 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![All aboard for Clive Emson’s five-day auction](/img/default/pit.png)
Chapels, historic houses, city centre apartments and a holiday park with a difference are among 160 lots catalogued by Clive Emson...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Now is a ‘great time’ to invest in UK property, says LSLi director](/img/default/pit.png)
It is now a ‘great time’ to invest in the UK housing market despite a new report showing that house price...
26 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![House price growth in UK’s major cities continues to slow](/img/default/pit.png)
The annual rate of residential property price growth across 20 of the largest UK cities slowed to 8.2% in August, from...
23 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![UK house price growth continues to slow, says Hometrack report](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a sharp slowdown in house price growth across all major cities in the south of England, but market...
26 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![London house price growth set to slow, says Hometrack](/img/default/pit.png)
Annual house price growth remained broadly unchanged in June across the UK’s major towns and cities, but signs are that price...
22 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: The most affordable places in the UK to buy homes](/img/default/pit.png)
Buying property now costs less than renting in more than half of UK cities - and the biggest savings are in...
17 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![House prices continue to rise in UK’s big cities](/img/default/pit.png)
Residential property prices in cities such as Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester have increased significantly over the past year, a survey...