Amid mixed messages about the current state of the housing market, Nationwide has reported a sharp fall in house prices. Its latest house price index...
Tenants should continue to pay rent and abide by all other terms of their tenancy agreement to the best of their ability, the Government has...
From 1 June landlords and letting agents in England have been able to charge tenants with very few fees on top of rent. It is...
Re-opening of the housing market in England following the coronavirus lockdown, led to a burst of enthusiasm from would–be buyers and a small increase in...
A Bristol lettings agent is calling on landlords to apply for mortgage repayment holidays and to pass on the saving in outgoings as rent holidays...
Edinburgh City Council is urging local private landlords left with empty homes due to the coronavirus crisis to sign up to its Private Sector Leasing...
Coronavirus-hit buyer confidence will translate into short term house price falls of between 5 and 10 per cent, said researchers at international property agents Savills....
A letting agent who received and kept an undisclosed local authority incentive of £2,500, has been ordered by the Property Ombudsman to pay this to...
Over 90 per cent of landlords who had received a request from tenants for support during the coronavirus crisis responded positively, a survey by the...
From today (13 May 2020) private landlords and letting agents may conduct viewings of empty rental properties, and of properties from which tenants are moving...
Claims that 2.6m private renters have missed a rent payment or expect to do so because of the coronavirus lockdown, have been called into question...
Some of the country’s largest holiday lettings companies could be using unfair contracts to deny customers refunds for coronavirus cancellations, the consumer protection organisation Which?...
Coventry Council’s decision to press ahead with its landlord licensing scheme are irresponsible and in disregard of Government guidelines, the National Landlord Knowledges Association has...
Some landlords are refusing to allow tenants move out during the coronavirus crisis for fear of being unable to find new tenants. This is the...
Failure to pass on rent to a landlord client, failure to undertake promised work prior to letting, failure to evict a tenant as instructed and...
Lockdown conditions have left 373,000 property purchases stuck in the system, says property website Zoopla in its latest UK Cities House Price Index. Mostly comprised...
There are no plans to ban rent increases during the coronavirus crisis, Housing Minister Christopher Pincher has told the House of Commons. ‘All tenants remain...
There are now 220,000 fewer private landlords and close to 160,000 fewer rental homes than in 2017. The finding comes from estate agent Hamptons International...
Demand for rental property has already bounced back from the initial shock caused by the coronavirus crisis, the property website Zoopla has reported. Its first...
Home Office ‘Right to Rent’ rules, obliging landlords to check on the residency status of tenants, is legal, the Court of Appeal ruled this week....
Despite the recent dip in UK inflation, the Bank of England (BoE) is expected to hike interest rates again next month, according to Nigel Green,…
Despite the current economic climate, market conditions in the UK property sector exhibit no significant shift, as indicated in Propertymark’s Housing Insight Report for June…
Leading UK tenant referencing companies and rent guarantee providers HomeLet, Let Alliance, and Rent4sure are set to transform the landlord legal services sector with the…
Recent stress tests conducted by the Bank of England have raised concerns about potential financial instability. The results unveiled a worst-case scenario featuring a plunge…
Landbay’s recent quarterly survey reveals that 64% of buy-to-let landlords do not plan to offload any of their properties in the forthcoming year. The strongest…
Newly released data from leading London estate and lettings agent, Benham and Reeves, suggests that foreign property owners hold assets worth a staggering £84.2 billion…
Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in Wales are generating the most substantial yields across Britain, according to data revealed by Paragon Bank. The buy-to-let specialist…
The UK housing market faced a setback in June 2023, with an eight-month low in new buyer enquiries hinting at a reemergence of issues plaguing…
Leeds Building Society is expanding its options for landlords with the introduction of a new suite of Buy to Let mortgages, specifically designed for those…
The National Association of Property Buyers (NAPB) has issued a stark warning: house prices are predicted to drop more steeply due to mortgage rates reaching…
Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine & Country, reports that the continuous annual rise in rental values, particularly during the bustling summer months, shows no…
The latest analysis from property lending specialists, Octane Capital, indicates a surge in arrears for buy-to-let landlords outpacing that of homeowners. Octane Capital scrutinised the…
The UK government has opened a consultation regarding plans to exclude landlords from paying council tax premiums on unoccupied properties whilst preparing them for tenancy…
The UK housing market has encountered its most significant decrease in 12 years, with house prices falling by 2.6% within the year to June, according…
In a bid to curb stubbornly high inflation, the Bank of England could potentially raise the UK base rate as high as 7%, warns US…
