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Not for the first time, the worlds of property and football have collided with the proposed takeover of beleaguered Derby County...

This week’s auction roundup features a new addition, with Cheffins’ June auction dominated by land lots. Network Auctions anticipates plenty of...

Off the back of International Women's Day, which took place on March 8 2022, Property Investor Today hears from Chitra Stern, co-founder...

Hong Kong buyers currently have the biggest property footprint within the London market, new research from Benham and Reeves shows. The agent’s...

This week is nothing but positive, with the release of Clive Emson’s diverse catalogue, impressive lots set to go under the...

Staying at the forefront of the property investment industry takes a great deal of work, experience and expert knowledge, which is...

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

In this guest piece, Deborah Gray, founding director at Totum Partners, looks at why those operating in the property sector shouldn't lose...

Unite Students, the UK's leading owner, manager and developer of student accommodation, has published its net zero carbon pathway. The pathway sets...

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

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

Since its announcement all the way back in 2009, HS2 is a project that has attracted controversy, derision, support, protests, high-profile...

Last week saw leading voices from the building sector unite to call on the governments and industry to make urgent commitments...

In this guest piece, Rightio discusses some of the lesser-known costs of being a landlord. To the uninitiated, being a landlord might...

This mini development roundup features significant funding and investment for a Kensal Green development, a housing scheme in Corby and a...

Expat financial planning firm Blevins Franks held a webinar earlier this month – named ‘A conversation about Moving to Portugal’ –...

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

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

The built environment will play a key role at the upcoming UN climate change conference, COP26, which is being held across...

It’s one of the biggest issues facing countries and leaders across the world and has been brought into starker focus than...

Fixflo and Spike Global have formed a partnership to deliver a property communication and maintenance management solution for BTR residents and property...

Unite Students, a student accommodation provider, has announced its new property in Bristol will be named after Princess Campbell, the city’s...

Living well in retirement and into old age has become a very hot topical issue in the last 15 months or...

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

On Thursday May 6, a webinar was held – ‘Invest. Work. Live. In Lisbon’ – to highlight the best ways of...

In this guest piece, Jitesh Patel from Kajima Partnersips discusses why later living investment will become so important post-pandemic and represents an...

Despite being riddled with issues, Crossrail 1 – which is finally supposed to operate fully in 2022 – has had a...

Real Estate Capital Holdings has agreed to sell a prime PBSA development opportunity in Leeds for £18.5 million to global living...

A national contractor says it has made ‘significant progress’ on three residential projects based in Leicester. The schemes from Stepnell include two...

Construction work on a set of new riverside apartments in North Tyneside has begun. The £10 million development, Shepherds Quay, will be...

Liverpool-based global property developer Romal Capital has reinforced its commitment to Liverpool’s Central Docks by committing £100 million to transform the derelict brownfield...

Having weathered the various challenges of 2020, showing its resilience and adaptability with companies surviving despite the difficult travel climate, the...

Developer and hotelier Lawrence Kenwright says he has agreed a deal with 95% of unsecured investors to bring the company he...

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

The leasehold scandal has been one of the biggest topics of debate and controversy in the property industry in recent years,...

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

Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency have been such buzzwords in the last decade. We hear these concepts often pertaining to a variety...

A leading UK student accommodation platform has unveiled which universities currently offer the best option for landlords in the student sector. UniHomes...

In a year of tumultuous uncertainty, where the headwinds of Covid-19 bore a number of new realities and decimated others, some...

Football, more than ever, is providing much-needed entertainment and escapism for the UK population now that it’s entered Lockdown 3.0, with...

A property exchange company born out of the 2008 financial crash has seen its membership grow again as the world undergoes...

A Barcelona-based software company recently announced its list of the ‘World’s Top 50 Short Term Property Managers’.  Rentals United, which describes itself...

Investment in the fast-growing Build to Rent (BTR) market bounced back significantly in Q3 2020, according to CBRE’s latest Marketview report. Following...

The latest apartment building from leading city centre lettings firm Manchester Apartments has opened its doors, designed to provide ‘first-class accommodation’ to students...

DTZ Investors has forward-funded a 310-room co-living project in Earlsfield, in a deal requiring £70 million of total investment. The Collective, which...

Unite Students, one of the UK's most prolific providers of student accommodation, has completed construction of its latest development worth £114...

Overseas and domestic students have returned to the London lettings market in full force this month, accounting for 25% of all...

With students starting or returning to university in the next few weeks – and question marks over how things will play...

One of the biggest investors in the fast-growing Build to Rent market is rebranding its ‘lifestyle-focused’ rental operator arm – in...

A top five gaming Dapp, which allows players to buy, sell and trade virtual properties mapped to actual addresses, has announced...

The Prime Central London (PCL) property market is the busiest it has been for over five years, according to estate agency...

A modular housing and technology company backed by the Rueben Brothers has become the world’s first housebuilder to achieve both the...

Despite the current thawing of relations between Westminster and Beijing, caused by controversial new laws in Hong Kong (a former British colony)...

Google searches for ‘moving abroad’ have once again returned to the peak search figures of last year. The current Covid climate,...

Multifamily (Build to Rent) housing is set to be the UK’s most resilient real estate sector, according to a report from...

Knowing exactly where you can go without having to self-isolate for 14 days upon your return to the UK will be...

Initial work to restore a historic building to its former glory and bring luxury living space to Stretford, Greater Manchester, has...

Unite – one of the largest providers of student beds in the UK – recently announced the successful completion of the...

The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t put a hold on major new developments and regeneration projects taking place across the UK. Here, we...

The purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector is continuing to grow despite the huge impact on universities from the coronavirus pandemic, which...

Build to Rent (BTR) was undoubtedly one of the property sector’s fastest-growing areas before Covid-19 took hold. But, like all other markets,...

A Chinese-led house buying boom is on the way in the UK, according to the CEO of Emerging Communications, a Chinese...

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had a particularly stark effect on the short-term rental market, given its reliance on travel, business,...

High net worth (HNW) investors are increasingly looking to diversify their investment portfolios by looking abroad. The search for cheap property...

In this Q&A, we speak to Thomas Balashev, the 30-year-old founder and chief executive of Montague Property - a bespoke Mayfair-based...

A new report into technology’s involvement in the booming short-lets market has uncovered key tech trends being adopted by property managers. Rentals...

With the number of major modular housing providers in the UK increasing, and calls getting ever-louder for more modern methods of...

Spanish international footballer Isco has been named as an off-plan buyer of luxury property at Picasso Towers, a development being constructed in...

With sustainability and green issues becoming popular buzzwords in 2019, driven by an increasing awareness of the climate crisis, the school...

The Luxury Property Show returned to Olympia London to present the world’s finest properties from the most sought-after locations. The show –...

Half an island in the River Don, and a number of other land lots, sold for at least double their guide...

In the fourth part of this series, Property Investor Today explores the regeneration works at Old Oak Common – a key...

The Luxury Property Show is returning to Olympia London on October 31 and November 1, with a brand-new look and a...

Spanish luxury real estate agency Lucas Fox witnessed sales of new homes triple in the period from January to April 2019,...

Groups representing landlords and letting agents have called for section 21 repossessions to be retained in the private rented sector unless...

Juwai.com, the Chinese portal for overseas real estate, and independent ski property portal SnowOnly have signed a partnership aiming to bring...

The UK Build to Rent sector (also known as multifamily housing in parts of Europe and North America) witnessed record levels...

Funding has been secured for a 407-bed student scheme on a prime site in Leeds, it has been revealed. Gregory Property Group...

Mark Jenkinson and Son’s first auction of the year achieved £2.4 million, with fierce bidding for a church in Doncaster leading...

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

The UK’s Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) sector is predicted to reach a total combined value of over £53 billion by...

Knight Frank remains top of the student market after a 33% increase in its visibility over the past year, according to...

Two new Build to Rent schemes are set to be built in Manchester and Liverpool after a deal was agreed between...

Sales of more than £5 million were driven by three vacant church buildings at a recent auction held by Sheffield-based property...

Kissimmee in Florida is the best place to buy a holiday home for those looking for a good return on investment....

Barking has been revealed as the best place to invest in by London estate agents Portico. The agency, which can trace its...

The first full development of family properties featuring Apple Home, Siri and Apple Homekit accessories has been built in the UK,...

Following the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union on June 24 2016, investment in the London property market has...

Former Manchester United stars Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville have for the third time revised their plans to redevelop part of Manchester...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced its calendar of autumn events that focus on the specialist lending sector. The half day...

There was a 30% rise in the number of foreign buyers of property in Montreal in the first half of this...

The Property Investor & Homebuyer Show, the UK’s most comprehensive property exhibition, takes place at London ExCeL this week – 28...

Property investors in the US flocked to an Irish property show in Boston last week with a view to taking advantage...

Overseas investors and British expats are finding it increasingly difficult to secure mortgages in the UK to fund property acquisitions, according...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of opportunistic foreign investors taking advantage of effective discounts caused by the...

Simon Tollit, director of central London sales at United Kingdom Sotheby’s International Realty, offers his thoughts on what property market trends...

There has been an increase in the number of overseas investors taking advantage of effective discounts caused by sterling’s nosedive after the...

We live in interesting times indeed; who would have predicted at the start of 2016, Britain voting to leave the European...

World trade markets plunged after billionaire property developer Donald Trump won the US election and is now set to become the...

Property auction sales of almost £3.8m suggest that Sheffield’s property market remains ‘in good health’ despite heightened uncertainty surrounding the recent Brexit...

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

Investorist, which claims to be the world's largest off-plan property marketplace, is holding a week-long event in China next month. The event...

After a characteristically dramatic opening weekend of Premier League football, seeing Arsenal beaten 4-3 by Liverpool and the champions, Leicester City,...

Former Manchester United stars Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville have for the third time revised their plans to redevelop part of Manchester...

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

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Here are details of the property auctions taking place in June.  01/07/2016                                         Auction House Symonds & Sampson      The Memorial Hall, High Street,...

With Britain in turmoil following the vote to leave the EU and uncertainty mounting in the USA ahead of the presidential elections,...

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

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Up to 10,000 new homes will be built as part of a £3.5bn residential property development, Enfield Council has confirmed. The council hopes...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Investors should keep their eye on the property market in the United States which continues to go from strength to strength. Residential...

Here are details of the property auctions taking place in June.  01/06/2016                                         Auction House Devon & Cornwall           Okehampton Business Centre, Higher Stockley...

Tottenham Hotspur has edged out rivals West Ham and Watford to dominate the property Premier League when it comes to house...

Residential property sales in the United States rose further in April despite rising prices and a decline in housing supply, the...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

Property auctions are a good place for investors to pick up a bargain, and every week these events are taking place...

There has been a significant increase in the number of lots offered for sale ahead of Sutton Kersh’s next property auction...

Work is set to get underway on a £1.3bn Lincolnshire Lakes project later this month that will completely transform the area...

Here are details of the property auctions taking place in May.  03/05/2016                                         Clive Emson Kent & South East London  Clive Emson Conference...

Property auctions are a great place to find a bargain, and every week these events are taking place at venues across...

In 2013, the United Nations (UN) revealed that over five million Brits are now living outside of the UK. However it...

Former Manchester United players Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs have told around 30 homeless people who have set up camp in an...

Research conducted by high-end estate agency Savills has revealed that Britain’s dearth of housing supply and its growing economy have helped...

Research from deVere Mortgages has found that mortgage applications have gone up by 43% in the last month. The vast majority...

Typically, the best investment opportunities in London centre around areas with planned redevelopment or transport hub improvements are expected. This means...