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The search for higher yields to cover rising costs led to nearly two-thirds (62%) of London-based investors buying property in the regions this year, up from 26% a decade ago.…

2022 has been a rollercoaster ride for landlords and property managers across the private renter sector, and we’d like to wish all of our 1.5 million readers, 50,000 newsletters subscribers…

Tenants in social and affordable housing now have the chance to apply for the government’s Right to Shared Ownership scheme. The Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities has published…

Oxford City Council is hailing its UK-first whole-city selective licensing scheme a likely success after it received more than 10,000 early applications – thousands more than expected. The only scheme…

Nearly two-thirds of private rental properties won’t reach proposed minimum EPC levels, according to new research. Data compiled for property data platform LandTech shows that 64% of private rental properties…

Analysis by portfolio landlord Open Property Group has revealed that it pays out 32% of its gross rent each month in rental property expenses. Using Hammock software, the company studied…

Renters groups have blamed letting agents for encouraging private landlords to raise rents to unacceptable levels to help boost their revenues. In a Generation Rent survey of more than 1,000…

The Bank of England has raised interest rates by 0.5%, taking the base rate to 3.5% and heralding a rise in many landlords’ buy-to-let mortgage repayments. Following the latest meeting of…

The government has announced its new registration scheme for short lets will launch next autumn, scotching opposition MPs’ repeated calls for a licensing scheme. During the latest Commons debate about…

A record 525 landlord licensing schemes are expected to be live in England and Wales by next summer, with about 20 more active schemes compared to this month. Licensing compliance…