A new development in Bishop’s Tachbrook in Warwickshire is set to create 125 new homes.

Newly appointed housing secretary Steve Reed has vowed to increase housebuilding ahead of meeting developers

Calum Allmond is head of architectural and energy services at DM Hall Chartered Surveyors The

The government has been slammed after both the housing secretary and homelessness minister lefts under

Landlords with HMOs (houses in multiple occupation) are seeing gross annual income levels far beyond

Almost a third of households in England are occupied by just one person, with the

Provider BluePine Living has launched an affordable housing platform in England to deliver homes through

A 253-home build-to-rent development is coming to Edinburgh city centre from developer Vastint UK. New

The former Reno nightclub site in Manchester is being redeveloped into 212 affordable homes across

A tax raid on landlords in the upcoming Autumn Budget would cause more financial issues

The UK’s rental supply crisis is now most acute in towns as more renters are

Homebuyers in the South East and East of England are the most likely to search

Letting agents in Haringey have been hit with over £100,000 in fines for failing to

The Scottish government has committed to investing £4.9 billion in the next four years to

By Robert Poole, director – block management, Glide Property Management, part of LRG In an

Hull, Sunderland and Carlisle are the most affordable student cities across Great Britain, analysis from

Hull, Sunderland and Carlisle are the most affordable student cities across Great Britain, analysis from

By Trevor Abrahmsohn, Glentree International The problem with having a thoroughly inexperienced Chancellor and a

Dr. Neil Cobbold, commercial Director, Reapit Buyers, sellers and the bond market are digesting the

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) has created a series of social media videos for

More homes are coming to a market and a greater number of sales are being

Property investors and experts are concerned about Labour’s leaked idea to charge landlords national insurance

Landlords are already heavily taxed and this tax could result in the nation’s tenants paying

Yet another tax on landlords in the form of National Insurance contributions would result in

The Treasury should tax commercial banks to compensate for the effects of quantitative easing, according

Landlords could have to pay national insurance payments based on rental income under leaked plans

Coastal areas in southern England have the most competition amongst sellers, meaning property buyers are

Some 40% of properties owned by anonymous firms based in tax havens are in the

There’s been an influx of mortgages issued worth more than £5 million, driven by non-doms

Capital gains tax on main homes, council tax reform and scrapping stamp duty are among

The government needs to be careful about stalling parts of the market with far-reaching tax

Property experts are cautious about changes to stamp duty, though most acknowledge that the current

Just over half of flatsharers (51%) are relying on some form of loan, credit, advance

Kevin Shaw, national sales managing director, Romans (an LRG company) When it comes to property maintenance,

Bradford was the leading property hotspot in the country between May and July, research from

By Trevor Abrahmsohn, Glentree International Rumours are rife that our hapless Chancellor is cooking up

It’s predicted that the government will rake in over £9bn from inheritance tax this tax

Annual house price inflation has climbed to 3.7% in June from 2.7% in May, bringing

Private rental growth slowed in July, falling to 5.9% from 6.7% the month before, ONS

There’s speculation that capital gains taxes could be revamped to prevent wealthy individuals from hoarding

A property expert has raised concerns that replacing stamp duty with a new tax could

Some 170,520 landlords bought a property in the last 12 months compared to 255,780 a

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering replacing stamp duty with a tax paid by the sellers

A commercial building that receives the highest rating in one country could receive a grade

The typical asking price of properties has dropped by £10,000 in just three months, pointing

The CEO of an organisation representing individual investors, advisers and businesses has called for an

Four in five (81%) landlords across Yorkshire & the Humber are experiencing strong tenant demand,

By Robert Poole, director – block management, Glide Property Management, part of LRG As scrutiny

Buy-to-let mortgage repossessions are up by 11% year-on-year, data from UK Finance shows. Some 790

The average two-year mortgage rate is at a three-year low at 4.99%, the first time

Leasehold structures are limiting upgrades and pushing landlords away from buying flats, research from Leaders

Fears of a mass landlord exodus ahead of the Renters’ Rights Bill becoming law have

By Allison Thompson, national lettings managing director, Leaders The government is preparing to extend the

The Renters’ Rights Bill, currently in the reporting stage in the House of Lords, is

An AI agent has been launched to automate tenant communications called WorkFlo, which has been

Sarah Dodd runs Tree Law, a tree law firm The UK is experiencing another spell of

Santander has changed its loan-to-income rules so those earning less than £45,000 can borrow up

Tenants should be protected from escalating rents by caps, similar to caps to energy and

The cost of beach huts has surged by 102.1% in three years in West Sussex,

UK property investment volume slipped to a two-year low in Q2 – largely due to

Three in five landlords had to deal with their fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage maturing in

Tom Bill is head of UK residential research at Knight Frank A House of Lords

The Buckinghamshire towns of Chesham and Amersham have been ranked as the best places to

The number of homeowners remortgaging reached a two-year high in June according to Bank of

Three in five (58.5%) landlords have raised rents in the past year alone, signalling that

The government has unveiled plans to protect existing pubs, clubs and music venues from noise

House prices surged by nearly £28,000 in East Lothian and by £20,000 in Midlothian, the

Daniel Austin, CEO and co-founder at ASK Partners, asks Chancellor Rachel Reeves on how she

More people are dipping into their properties as a source of wealth, data from the

Property management platform Concurrent from Sturents has partnered with guarantor waiver service Leap to offer

While the housing market has cooled over the summer demand for family homes has remained

Berkeley Group has launched the Net Zero Skills in Construction Programme, an initiative providing construction

Plans for 274 homes in Lots Road South, a brownfield regeneration site in Chelsea, have

Tax contributions paid by the UK’s wealthy individuals increased by 40% in the past four

There’s been a 38.6% increase in buy-to-let loans issued in the first quarter of 2025

Landlords are routinely failing to carry out Section 20 consultations, where landlords should consult leaseholders

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has made James Cleverly shadow housing secretary, bringing him back to

Private renters are seeing costs rise at a faster rate than mortgaged homeowners, analysis from

Landlords will be targeted for minor issues in a draconian move that will see council

infinitSpace is to open its fourth – and biggest – flexible workspace location in central

Rents are only expected to inflate by 1.0% in 2025, after Hamptons downgraded its forecast

Non-doms are leaving the UK but holding on to their London properties, according to Knight

Tenants now stay in a tenancy for nearly three years on average, a 40% increase

The latest U-turn in the Renter’s Rights Bill (RRB) concerning pet ownership may temporarily protect

16 and 17 year olds will be able to vote in the next general election,

Issues with the Japanese knotweed are by far the most prevalent in Bristol, analysis from

Knight Frank expects prime central London house prices to fall by 1% this year, down

John McHugh is managing partner of DM Hall, LLP, Chartered Surveyors. Scotland’s residential property market

The inflation rate climbed to 3.6% in the year to June 2025, threatening the prospect

By Trevor Abrahmsohn, Glentree International Our biggest issue stems from fellow estate agents who deliberately

Ed Philips is construction partner at Wedlake Bell The UK data centre industry boom –

More lenient buy-to-let stress tests are rejuvenating the market with more product choice and lower

The government’s relaunch version of the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme called Freedom to Buy has been

Smaller housebuilders are struggling to build at scale because they have to submit more planning

The real estate and construction sector is showing cautious but growing optimism for Mergers and

Legal requirements to install solar panels on the roofs of new properties by 2027 is

Across London and the South East of England the loan-to-income ratio is approximately 3.65 times,

The Financial Conduct Authority’s loan-to-income limits won’t make a big difference and feels like more

Tight supply compared to demand is continuing to push up both yields and rents, Fleet

Scottish housing secretary Mairi McAllan has targeted preventing “unacceptable” levels of empty homes in the

The government plans to ban upward-only rent reviews for commercial leases, a practice where rent

A wealth tax would further affect the already beleaguered Prime London market, Camilla Dell, managing

By Trevor Abrahmsohn, Glentree International After all the debacle around winter fuel payments, the welfare

Details of the permanent successor to the mortgage guarantee scheme are set to be announced

The Renters’ Rights Bill has been amended so tenants keeping pets will have to pay

The House of Lords have altered the Renters’ Rights Bill by giving student landlords more

Lloyds Banking Group and Peabody have signed a £60m loan agreement to fund the sustainable

Property prices were flat in June after falling by 0.3% in May, Halifax’s house price

The lack of a government-backed guaranteed price for selling back surplus clean power to the

A developer has won a case against a high-rise building designer – after opting to

First-time buyers are leaning harder on high loan-to-value mortgages, analysis of UK Finance data from

According to property platforms such as Rightmove and Zoopla, energy-efficient homes can sell faster and

By Allison Thompson, national lettings managing director, LRG As the Renters’ Rights Bill continues its

After exactly one year of the new Labour government, its biggest failures relating to the

Online remortgage searches dropped by 10% in June, indicating that many are waiting for an

The Prime Central London market is the most ‘anxious’ it’s been for over a decade,

The British obsession with property as a means of building wealth is outdated, as today’s

By Jonathan Pearson, director at Residentially I have spent many years working in social housing,

Telecoms masts are increasingly becoming a barrier to redevelopment or urgent building works – and

The Decent Homes Standard is being extended from social housing to private in the Renters’

The government is reforming the Building Safety Regulator in a bid to speed up construction

Only one legal challenge will be permitted on decisions on major infrastructure in a bid

 Some 69% of landlords plan to sell at least one property in the next 12

UK house price inflation has slowed to 1.4%, led by falling values in London and

The Stafford Building Society has introduced two buy-to-let mortgage products – which includes a 2-year

The South West of England is the UK’s top destination for over-50s looking to downsize,

Jessica Anderson is senior associate at Hunters Law The High Court’s Decision in London Trocadero

The Renters’ Rights Bill’s cap of advance rents to one month could have the effect

The Renters’ Rights Bill, which includes measures to ban Section 21 evictions, won’t pass until

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has called for EPC regulations to focus on the least energy

Tenants and first-time buyers could be left worse off if the government continues to squeeze

Planned changes to the Renters’ Rights Bill will mean landlords will be required to shoulder

The majority of estate agents rely on AI or automated valuation models (AVMs) – despite

The government wants to reduce energy costs for businesses as part of its ‘industrial strategy’.

London needs to allow more high-rise buildings in areas with strong public infrastructure, a think

infinitSpace, the global flexible workspace provider, has appointed Heiko Himme as its new Head of

OBS Group has launched a technology-led buy-to-let lending brand called Rely. Rely will use data-led

The falling number of high-value residential transactions has put more pressure on the government’s finances,

Oliver Novakovic, head of innovation at Barratt David Wilson Homes, has provided seven expert tips

Gemma Donnelly, head of customer propositions at Gatehouse Bank A recent webinar poll of property

The government has pledged to spend £725 billion in 10 years to boost infrastructure. As

A UK law firm has spoken out against councils for discouraging tenants from pursuing ‘no

The Bank of England has opted to hold the base rate at 4.25% – but

The government has failed to explain how they will ready the courts for the end

A fake landlord has been convicted of fraud after booking Airbnbs and selling them on

Tenant applications surged by 35% between April and May, counteracting April’s dip with a strong

Tenant applications surged by 35% between April and May, counteracting April’s dip with a strong

Mark Bailey, partner at Landwood Group Attempts to improve the energy efficiency of UK properties

The government has launched a publicly owned ‘National Housing Bank’ to support small housebuilders and

Three estate agents and two letting agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for

Kevin Shaw, national sales managing director, Leaders (an LRG company) The property market tends to

Robin Edwards is a partner at Curetons Property Finders, central London-based property buying agent For

Estate and lettings agents say they feel unsupported by the government after ‘drip pricing’ was

An iconic railway viaduct crucial to the Peak District quarrying industry is getting a multi-million-pound

GB Bank has opened up access to foreign nationals and expatriate clients who do not

A growing number of homeowners are using second charge mortgages, also known as secured loans,

By Trevor Abrahmsohn, chief executive of Glentree Estates Having heard the Chancellor trying to make

The higher-priced South West, South East and London areas have seen the largest price drops

A London Assembly Housing Committee has called for the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to

Much of the property industry has responded positively to the Chancellor’s Spending Review, with the

The cost of renting should inflate in the months ahead due to a shortage of

The government has committed to investing £39bn in social and affordable housing in its Spending

Flexible workspace provider infinitSpace has completed a new partnership with PATRIZIA, an investment manager in

The government will launch an Artificial Intelligence tool in collaboration with Google to speed up

Trevor Abrahmsohn is managing director of north London agency Glentree International Let’s face it, estate

If regulations go through Scottish properties will need to comply with a minimum EPC rating

The government is refusing to publish the Justice Impact Test for the Renters’ Rights Bill,

Representatives from major high streets have urged the government to reform policing and crime reporting

Kevin Shaw, national sales managing director, LRG Historically, older properties have been generally viewed as

A decline in planning permission in England is threatening UK housebuilding targets, Investec research shows.

A council is using a second homes tax to fund loans to first-time buyers in

There was a 25% uptick in projects staring in the three months to the end

Dallas-based private equity firm Lone Star Real Estate Fund VII has agreed to buy nine

May was especially busy this year, with agreed sales reaching a four-year high, Rightmove research

The National Residential Landlords Association has accused the government of setting ‘unachievable’ and ‘unrealistic’ goals

The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) has called on Labour to focus on detailed infrastructure

Flatshare adverts have surged amidst the looming spectre of the Renters’ Rights Bill, research from

UK landlords should prepare for a shift in how they manage tenancies, given how the

Nearly half of buy-to-let landlords (44%) plan to pre-emptively raise rents in response to the

A rogue landlord is letting out properties as emergency accommodation via a third-party provider, The

Chris Hemmings, partner, Carter Jonas Do the changes to the NPPF really open up opportunity?

Leaseholders are increasingly responding with legal action as freeholders and property managers look to develop

Buyers in North Eastern United States are attracting the most buyer interest, led by Buffalo

HMO investors can net a 10% return by turning a 3–4-bedroom property into a 6-bed,

Areas like Sheffield and Rotherham are some of the worst for burglaries in the UK,

Savills has expanded its super prime lettings business beyond the capital with a team covering

Mark Wilson, director of Myleasehold and a member of ALEP (Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners)

Mortgage intermediaries are very confident in the state of their own business, signaling that most

Housing secretary Angela Rayner wants smaller housebuilders to pick up more of the slack when

By Trevor Abrahmsohn, Glentree International When I started Glentree in 1976, estate agents were a

The number of agreed property sales in May reached its highest rate in four years,

Luxury estate agency firm Circa London has partnered with Castlemere Developments to market its new

A commercial building spanning 233,000 sq ft near Manchester’s Piccadilly Station is being constructed called

The true scale of mortgage fraud in the UK may be far greater than official

Matt Clarke, director, Boyer (an LRG company) To meet housing targets, it is imperative that

Just 3% of property professionals are most confident in the prospects of buy-to-let this year,

Government agency Homes England has surpassed its housing delivery targets for 2024-25. The agency facilitated