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Councils across England could make an additional £540m a year in council tax on empty homes after new rules came into...

This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising rents, and the threat of falling property prices. Although average...

By Kevin Shaw, National Sales, Managing Director, Leaders Romans Group This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising...

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

You don’t need me to tell you that buy to let has had a torrid time of it lately. For agents trying...

Analysis by professional cash buyer and portfolio landlord, Landlord Buyer (part of Open Property Group), has revealed what costs make up...

The Government’s latest Housing Minister Lucy Frazer brings plenty of property experience as a landlord and has also indirectly received donations...

As inflation passes the 10% mark, it’s no surprise that many landlords are hurriedly reviewing the health of their buy-to-let portfolio. You...

If 2020 was the year of survival, then 2021 was about the post-Covid boom. The impact of the pandemic on the...

With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...

With tenancy fraud on the rise, landlords are increasingly wary. So, they want to work with agencies who do everything they...

In the UK, 3.5 million households — which is over one-third of UK households — are either privately or socially rented,...

It’s been revealed that HM Revenue & Customs scours the listings on both Rightmove and Zoopla to assess whether property investors...

As we move into the autumn of 2021, what the coming year has in store for estate agents is something we...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

Last weekend we spoke with Liana Loporto, NAEA Propertymark’s president, in an exclusive interview. Here we follow that up with an...

There are an estimated 2.7 million landlords in the private rented sector (PRS) providing rental accommodation to multiple generations of tenant,...

The MP who chairs one of the most important committees in the House of Commons has urged the government to increase...

This is a time of year when many people consider buying a pet as a present but for the millions of...

This month saw the introduction of the final stages of the Section 24 tax changes, first introduced in April 2017. Whereas buy-to-let...

While controversy swirls around the approach and motives of the sackings and branch closures at Spicerhaart, other agents are showing how...

It may be that we’re facing another year - make that yet another year - of disruption in the housing market. Coronavirus...

Properties worth a combined £8.1m have been surrendered to the National Crime Agency following a tax probe. The properties included 16 homes...

A sales and lettings agency which has entered insolvency is reported by a local newspaper to have offered vendors cut-price fees...

A PropTech start-up says its service allows investors from anywhere in the world to buy property in the UK which can...

Winkworth’s trading statement for the first half of 2019 show the company’s revenue and pre-tax profit both dipping slightly - but...

With the often negative portrayal of agents in the media and popular culture, you might ask yourself why anyone would want...

A record £8.2 billion was paid in Capital Gains Tax in 2017/18 - over £1 billion more than the year before.  The...

I missed the biggest property story of the week and it’s only scant consolation that almost everyone else seemed to miss it...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

Vesta, which describes itself as “the new online marketplace for buying and selling rental property” has launched a bid to raise...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

Several agencies operating under different brand names in south east England have been retitled under just one, called Alexander & Co.  This...

Ten out of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News say Brexit and economic uncertainty are likely to stall London’s housing market...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

Auctions are a great way to sell property competitively, with a wide range of homes often selling under the hammer, and...

By Wednesday April 19th, a UK citizen, on an average income, had earned £7,789 from their day job so far this...

Winkworth’s annual figures for 2016 reveal a franchise turnover drop of six per cent and a pre-tax profit fall of 25.6...

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

Instant gratification is nothing new. It’s been around for millennia. It’s an in-built survival instinct for humans – that want, that...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) has announced that it has invested in a soon-to-launch PropTech startup. The group, which now owns uSwitch and...

Last time out I spoke about the beginnings of a PropTech revolution, with two major London-based events in the offing over...

We talk about the unstoppable rise of buy-to-let and forget that it was only as recently as the early 1970’s that...

With less than a month to go before the new rate of stamp duty kicks in for second property purchasers, we’re...

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron is claiming that the government’s flagship Starter Homes project could allow properties to be bought by...

What are we going to do about Generation Rent? Only as recently as February 2016 did tenants steal the headline away...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

Newspapers and other journalists’ outlets are reporting that rooms in care homes are being offered to purchase as buy to let...

The Resort Group, the developer of the all-suite Llana Beach Hotel and Spa, which is due to open in 2016, has...

The Resort Group are looking for sales agents to help sell our 5-star property developments in Cape Verde. With a proven...

Agents have expressed their disappointment at the decision by the government to restrict mortgage interest relief for Buy To let investors...