Obliging letting agents to join an ombudsman or other redress scheme may not address issues of financial protection according to the chair of a scheme campaigning to protect client deposits. John Midgley, chair of...
Escalating rent costs are forcing two in five of those in the private rented sector to cut back on heating, while a third are avoiding buying food, a shock poll has revealed. The worrying...
Nine out of ten Independent Financial Advisers expect UK house prices to increase during the next three years. Some 40% of IFAs would increase their own personal exposure to residential if it were easier...
It’s not surprising that the news that the government is extending Green Deal finance to landlords and tenants in England, Wales and Scotland has been welcomed by lettings bodies. With just four years to...
The average buy-to-let investor in England and Wales could make a 15.3% return over the next 12 months due to the flourishing rental market, LSL Property Services has estimated writes Ryan Bembridge.
Brokers believe the pension reforms announced in the Budget could trigger a surge in buy-to-let investment and an increase in the number of borrowers paying down interest-only mortgages. From next April, savers aged 55...
Overall advertised rents in the UK reached their highest level since the third quarter of 2012 with nine out of 11 regions seeing growth, according to the latest rental index. Rents in Scotland saw...
Buy to let landlords are being “persecuted” by local authorities. This is according to a new investigation by the Telegraph, which spoke to landlords and trade bodies about what the Residential Landlords Association described...
Landlords in Scotland benefited from a rise in average advertising rents in February, Move with Us data has revealed. The region was the best performing in Britain with the biggest percentage increases in advertised...
Buy to let borrowing soared by more than 50% in the last three months of 2013, compared with the same time a year earlier. Banks and building societies advanced £6.6 billion to landlords and...
