House prices have continued to rocket upwards over the last few months, the latest findings from Halifax confirm. The mortgage lender put the average price...
Heating systems in all Scottish new-builds approved after 2024 will have to be zero-rated for emissions, under a proposed New Build Heat Standard published by...
Scotland’s £10m Tenant Hardship Loan Fund offering interest-free loans to tenants struggling with Covid-induced rent arrears has opened for applications, the Scottish Government has announced....
Connells this week told Countrywide shareholders that its revised offer to buy the company, valuing it at £104m, was ‘the only tangible and actionable proposition...
Falkirk, Scotland is the fastest moving property market in the UK, with properties taking an average of just 20 days from listing to ‘sold subject...
St Ives, in Cornwall, is the happiest place to live in Great Britain, the property portal Rightmove has decided. Its annual Happy at Home Index...
Average rents for new-to-the-market two bedroom properties in Scotland, the most common type of private rented property, increased in the year to September at a...
Delays caused by the Coronavirus pandemic have meant that planned changes to the Right to Rent rules will not now be made before the spring...
Latest Land Registry figures, published last week, largely confirm that the house sales boom over the summer months shows little sign of slowing. UK house...
Mumbles in Wales is currently Britain’s top coastal house price hotspot. Property portal Rightmove has reported. ‘The quaint seaside town, nestled on the coast of...
Calls have been mounting for the Government to provide financial support to tenants in England who are facing hardship because of the Coronavirus crisis. Many...
Rents for new lets increased in the year to October, but only in rural locations, Hamptons International has reported. Its November Monthly Lettings Index put...
Some tenants could be owed thousands of pounds in rent repayments because landlord has failed to obtain the correct licence. So said Mayor of London,...
With a few exceptions notices to tenants in England given from 29 August 2020 to at least 31 March 2021 must be at least six...
Countrywide, the UK’s largest listed estate agent has received a £82m provisional takeover bid from rival Connells. Countrywide, which has over 700 branches and owns...
Mortgage borrowers should act quickly as interest rates continue to rise, financial information company Moneyfacts has suggested. Average rates on two and five year fixed...
Rents in London have fallen during the Coronavirus pandemic, property portal Zoopla has reported. However, London is the exception and rents risen in a buoyant...
It is vital for the future supply of good quality rented housing that abolition of section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions is accompanied by an assurance...
Average UK house price reached new record high in October although the market looks set to slow in the coming months, reported Halifax in its...
Courts in England will remain open during the latest national lockdown, but evictions will not be enforced until 11 January 2021 ‘at the earliest’. There...
Renters are increasingly being targeted by fraudsters exploiting the tight property market, warns the National Association of Property Buyers. The association has identified a trend…
Private landlords are pushing back against allegations that they share responsibility for the dwindling number of childminders in England. The backlash comes in light of…
Recent research from Paragon Bank has shed light on the changing landscape of Britain’s rental market. Landlords situated in Outer London, as well as the…
New research, commissioned by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) and undertaken by BVA-BDRC, paints a stark picture of the current property landscape in England…
In the wake of recent inflation updates, MFB, a specialist buy-to-let broker, is advising landlords nearing the end of their mortgage deals to lock in…
Recent data from personal finance comparison platform, finder.com, highlights a stark reduction in annual returns on buy-to-let properties in the UK. The drop, exceeding £4000…
House prices in London have decreased by 0.6% over the past year. This marks the first downturn observed in any region since the market virtually…
The National Trading Standards Estate & Letting Agency Team has recently publicised new guidelines concerning the terminology used in property listings. Developed in tandem with…
The year is flying by and time is gradually running out for you to check if you need to submit a Self Assessment tax return…
Recent data has unveiled that a significant proportion of landlords in England are either unsupportive of or uncertain about the Government’s initiative to make membership…
Paragon Bank has announced a significant drop in its core two-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages. The rates have been reduced by 45 basis points, now commencing…
Recent data indicates that UK landlords are now facing an average loss of £10,000 when disposing of their properties. This downturn in fortunes comes in…
UK Finance, the representative body for over 300 firms in the banking and finance industry, has recently disclosed alarming data concerning mortgage arrears for Q2…
New figures from the Ministry of Justice reveal a concerning 41% surge in Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions. In England, the number of households evicted…
The most recent RICS survey paints a concerning picture of the UK housing market. In July, there was a 45% decline in new buyer enquiries,…
