Tag: Housing demand

Autumn Budget uncertainty keeps house prices under pressure

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th October 2025, 6 months ago | 0

The upcoming Autumn Budget is expected to leave house prices constrained as uncertainty looms. According to the latest Acadata House...

PRS faces rental shortages as landlords exit

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th July 2025, 10 months ago | 7

The private rented sector is grappling with a severe shortage of available properties, creating hurdles for tenants finding homes, a...

Labour won’t hit housing target – Savills

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th June 2025, 11 months ago | 4

Labour will miss its goal of delivering 1.5 million new homes by 2028/29, with property experts Savills forecasting just 840,000...

Right-to-Buy sales set to reach highest level in 20 years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st May 2025, 11 months ago | 5

The number of council homes being sold under the Right-to-Buy scheme is set to hit its highest level in two...

Keir Starmer: Not all landlords are evil

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st July 2024, 2 years ago | 55

In a heated interview on BBC Radio 5 Live, Keir Starmer declared, “not all landlords are evil,” but slammed some...

Landlords help to boost local economies

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th March 2024, 2 years ago | 0

The significant financial contribution being made by landlords to regional economies when supporting local trades has been revealed. Research from...

Scotland housing crisis laid bare as 22,000 homes disappear in a year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th March 2024, 2 years ago | 10

Government policy and anti-landlord rhetoric are to blame for a 22,000 drop in rental homes across Scotland in one year,...

Thousands face removal from social housing lists in Leeds

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th February 2024, 2 years ago | 5

 New plans could see 18,000 people removed from social housing waiting lists in Leeds. Leeds City Council says the demand...

Property sales plummet in England and Wales

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd June 2023, 3 years ago | 1

There has been a 58% drop in property sales across England and Wales in the past year, research reveals. The...

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Cameron veto may mean buy to let regulation by EU

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th December 2011, 14 years ago | 16

Mortgage lenders are quietly furious behind the scenes that Prime Minister David Cameron’s Euro treaty veto may have scuppered their...

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Buy to Let Drought Pushes up Yields for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th December 2011, 14 years ago | 0

A shortage of homes to rent is pushing yields up for landlords – and the trend is likely to continue,...

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Your Property & Economic Predictions for 2012

Author: Mark Alexander

30th November 2011, 14 years ago | 25

Calling all landlords and associated property professionals We all read the various pundits forecasts and they are nearly always wrong...

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EU Trying To Kill Buy To Let – sign the petition to STOP it now.

Author: Mark Alexander

19th November 2011, 14 years ago | 100

The buy to let market will grind to a halt if EU proposals to change the way lenders hand out...

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England faces housing gap of 750,000 properties by 2025

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

England faces a shortage of up to 750,000 homes by 2025 according to an analysis of government projections by think-tank...