Amid greater competition for new business mortgage lenders continue to make reductions across their mortgage and finance products covering fixed and variable rates and including...
Interest rates have been increased to 4.25% from 4% by the UK’s central bank to get inflation under control and following the increase in rates by US federal reserve bank, which...
New figures today from London agency Foxtons show that the average rent in February 2023 rose five per cent from the previous month, reaching over £570 per week, which exceeded...
Good property due diligence and research will provide investors with a solid overview of the positive and the negative associated with a given property and offer. This is very...
UK property has rebounded at an incredible rate since the financial crisis, and after the recession that ended in 2008.
The average price of property coming to market increased by 0.8%, or £2,906, this month, to £365,357 mainly due to a 1.2% jump in the largest homes sector, according to Rightmove.
Foxtons have revealed that Hong Kong accounts for the highest proportion of residential homes registered to foreign addresses in 17 of London’s 32 boroughs, with HK accounting for...
Activity within the letting market will increase as we head into the warmer spring months in the UK according to Nicky Stevenson, MD of Fine & Country.
Fresh analysis by Sirius Property Finance looked at historic dwelling completion figures across England stretching back to the late 1970s, before analysing dwellings built versus...
Overseas investors are receiving an effective bonus of £40,000 off the purchase of a UK buy to let, according to leading lettings agency Benham and Reeves.
Sirius Property Finance has analysed the current PRS sector by looking at the level of stock, the current market value, the current average yield and how this has changed since...
London’s most up-and-coming areas have seen property price increases of up to 64.5% over the last 12 months, according to research by Benham and Reeves.
House prices recovered in February month-on-month and are continuing to show year-on-year growth, according to the latest data from the Halifax.
The rental market is firing on all cylinders according to the latest market snapshot from PropTech firm Goodlord.
The interest rate on a five-year fixed rate mortgage has now fallen back to below 4% for the first time since the financial market uncertainty in September 2022.
UK Developers are steaming ahead with planning applications as research has pinpointed areas of Britain set for a property building boom in the coming months.
New research from TwentyEA shows that there is a lack of rental properties in the maret and this is pushing rents higher. On average rents were £1,652 per calendar month (pcm) at...
Real estate was one of the key drivers in four in 10 ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) growing their wealth in 2022 despite a year of ‘permacrisis’.
Rental yields have increased by as much as 2.5 per cent in the past year as rent values outperform house prices.
The average price of a home in the UK has increased on average by almost £50,000 since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
New research by Benham and Reeves, highlights that a supporting cast from Singapore is helping to drive UK market activity.
Prime London property demand is on the rise but mainly for those without the need for a mortgage, new data suggests.
With banks and building societies providing poor returns it is not surprising that thousands of people continue to turn to residential property as a means of supplementing their...
Apartments are back in demand in Britain’s most expensive rental enclave of Prime Central London (PCL) locations a lettings agency says.
Stamp duty transactions increased by 10% in Q3 2022 compared to the previous quarter, according to HM Revenue & Customs, while receipts rose by 11%.
Annual rental growth strengthened for the third month running, with average rents up 7.9% across Great Britain at the same time last year. Rental growth was led by Scotland where...
A leading buying agent has claimed that, with the mortgage market still in turmoil after the disastrous mini-budget (and its near total reversal), there is an opportunity for...
Specialist rental platform, Ocasa, claims that England’s Private Rented Sector (PRS) could surpass 5 million homes by 2025.
The latest figures show almost 250,000 homes in the UK are now owned by overseas nationals. In the current market, that is £90.7bn worth of property, suggesting that the UK...
Rental growth is continuing with average rents up 8.3 per cent on the same time last year according to Hamptons, the lettings agency.
Hundreds of thousands of investors have long turned to residential property as a means of income, supported by low mortgage borrowing rates, solid demand from tenants, and stable...
Rental value growth in prime London markets slowed in November as the gap between supply and demand narrowed, according to Knight Frank.
Rents are still rising rapidly in the prime areas of London due to a shortage of homes available to rent against a background of high demand from tenants.
Would-be buyers are looking to the rental market as they pause their property purchase plans until there is clarity on mortgage rates in the new year, Rightmove claims.
For long-in-the-tooth investors, they know that borrowing money from the bank to buy property can make you a lot more money than paying cash. The only question that you need to...
The UK is a mature property market and over time the government has introduced legislation to protect the consumer, which in this case is both the landlord and the tenant. The...
Real estate is a great investment to make – if you know what you’re doing. Buying rental properties takes knowledge, determination and skill to pull off successfully. However,...
Agents in London are predicting that 2023 will be an exceptional year for the prime central London (PCL) market following a recent increase in the number of cash buyers...
Specialist mortgage lender Aldermore in the UK has named what it believes to be the five best cities for landlords to invest in for 2023.
Researchers claim that Homeowners who have bought a property in the past 20 years and sold in 2022 have typically made a gross profit of more than £100,000.
