UK housebuilders are rapidly shifting towards institutional rental sales, with investment in Single Family Housing reaching a record £3.17 billion in 2025, according to new...
Graduates with student loans save nearly £2,000 less per year towards house deposits than debt-free savers, with 41 percent saying repayments are preventing them from...
Homebuyers paid £995 million in stamp duty in February, an 11 percent rise on January’s intake, according to HMRC figures released this week – though...
A third of landlords ending tenancies in one Essex agency are selling their properties rather than reletting, as Propertymark regional executives report growing market polarisation...
The Financial Conduct Authority has opened an enforcement investigation into Market Financial Solutions, the bridging lender that collapsed last month leaving hundreds of property investors...
Inverclyde in Scotland has been named the UK’s most affordable area for homebuyers, according to Nationwide Building Society’s latest affordability analysis. The lender found around...
The government has published an official information sheet on the Renters’ Rights Act that landlords must provide to all tenants by 31 May 2026 –...
Rental property supply increased 12 percent in January while tenant arrears fell to their lowest level in recent months, according to new data from Propertymark...
The proportion of landlords owning just one or two properties fell from 57 percent to 50 percent in a single year, according to new data...
Greenwich Council has launched a coordinated enforcement operation in Plumstead, targeting more than 120 properties suspected of housing breaches and unlicensed HMOs. Officers from Environmental...
HM Revenue and Customs has confirmed that 118,000 landlords across England will be required to submit quarterly income updates from next month under the Making...
The Senedd has passed legislation requiring all holiday let and tourist accommodation providers in Wales to register with a national licensing scheme, prompting warnings from...
Generation Rent has launched a campaign calling for limits on rent increases following energy efficiency improvements, arguing that landlords should not be allowed to pass...
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has called for national rent controls and the abolition of Right to Buy, claiming landlords are profiting while “ripping the...
The Bank of England has kept interest rates at 3.75 percent following its March Monetary Policy Committee meeting, dashing hopes of a spring rate cut...
Administrators have begun marketing more than 250 property companies holding prime central London homes following the collapse of bridging lender Market Financial Solutions, with an...
More than a quarter of properties sold by landlords last year included sitting tenants, according to new research that shows the private rented sector continues...
Landlords who refuse to let properties to tenants claiming benefits or those with children will face criminal penalties from 1 May 2026, following new guidance...
Mortgage Advice Bureau has announced that the value of arranged mortgages reached £32bn in 2025, a 23 percent increase on the previous year and a...
A Wembley landlord has been hit with a fine of nearly £92,000 after Brent Council uncovered serious HMO licensing breaches including severe overcrowding and dangerous...
County Durham landlords could face a wider selective licensing net from April 2027 after the council confirmed plans for a fresh scheme covering an estimated…
Average rents moved in different directions across the UK in April, with Scotland, Northern Ireland and London all posting firm monthly rises while Wales and…
Melton Building Society will enter the limited company buy-to-let market on 11 May with six products aimed at incorporated landlords, widening the options available to…
Most landlords are still making money from buy-to-let despite heavier regulation, rising costs and softer tenant demand, with new research putting profitability at 84 percent…
Telford & Wrekin Council is preparing to decide whether smaller HMOs should be brought into an additional licensing scheme from 20 August, a move that…
Liverpool City Council has opened a fresh consultation on the future of selective licensing, with landlords now facing the prospect of a scheme that could…
Average rents across England fell by 0.6 percent in April, according to the latest Goodlord Rental Index, giving landlords one of the clearest signs yet…
Most landlords say their portfolios are still profitable and average yields have edged up again, but confidence in the private rented sector has weakened as…
Official take-up of the government’s Renters’ Rights Act information sheet still looks low relative to the size of England’s private rented sector, raising the risk…
A Leeds landlord has been hit with a higher financial penalty after appealing council enforcement action over safety and management failings at a Harehills rental…
The Home Office’s latest Right to Rent consultation has reopened a long-running problem for landlords: how to carry out immigration checks without creating fresh discrimination…
Landlords and second-home buyers now account for most Stamp Duty receipts in more than half of English councils, according to new Paragon Bank analysis of…
Tenant swaps are set to become a more common pressure point for landlords under the Renters’ Rights Act, with deposit protection provider mydeposits warning that…
Rent growth across England slowed in the first quarter of 2026 despite widespread expectations that landlords would push through sharper increases before the Renters’ Rights…
Derby City Council has prosecuted two landlords after they failed to hand over tenancy and rent records during housing standards investigations, in a reminder that…
