Tag: Property Market News

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Landlords Look to Families for the Future

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th September 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Landlords are becoming more family orientated and buying bigger homes to rent, according to a buy to let mortgage lender....

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Financial Woes Stop 3 Million from Moving Home

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st September 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Three million homeowners are staying put rather than moving home over concerns about jobs, money and mortgages. A lack of...

Bank of England Agents’ Summary of Business Conditions August 2011

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Bank of England have released their Agents’ Summary of Business Conditions for August, and they have found a ‘subdued’ housing...

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‘Ghost’ Consumers Push up the Cost of Energy Bills

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th August 2011, 15 years ago | 8

Around 2 million consumers are not paying for gas and electricity due to mix ups over the suppliers. The main...

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Benchmark your Buy to Let Business with ARLA Data

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Property investors looking to benchmark their businesses and profile the buy-to-let market can download a comprehensive professional review from the...

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UK Negative Equity Blackspots Revealed

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

New research from mortgage lenders reveals negative equity black spots across the UK. Around 827,000 homes were in negative equity...

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Yorkshire Launches Limited Buy to Let Lending

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Yorkshire Building Society is taking a tentative step in to buy to let lending with a limited range of mortgages...

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Seven Tenants Chasing Each Home for Rent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th August 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Up to seven new tenants are competing to rent each home- and the gap between available properties and the number...

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London’s calling corporate investors in to buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

London buy to let landlords may soon have to fight toe-to-toe with institutional investors for prime residential property. Soaring rents...

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Revealed – UK cities with the most overpriced homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Oxford homes are the most overpriced in the country, according to an online survey. Two thirds of people think homes...

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More tenants in arrears as rents keep rising

Author: Neil Patterson

30th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Around 75,000 buy to let tenants are in rent arrears – a 13% increase on the same period last year,...

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One in three Brits predict house prices will rise in next year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Data from the recent Halifax Housing Market Confidence tracker reveals that a third of Britons expect house prices to rise...

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Crunch time for home hunters who can’t buy or rent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Britain is careering towards a housing crunch as an increasing number of home hunters cannot afford to rent or buy...

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The BPF calls for land to be sold to the right people

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The British Property Federation has issued a word of caution over the distribution of the land set to be sold...

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Housing Association in talks to trade

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Knightstone, the south and west housing association, is looking to downsize its roster of properties they manage by trading with...

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Court closures could have knock on effects for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

With buy to let landlords experiencing total rent arrears of £284million from tenants not paying each month, the closure of...

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Buy to let landlords maintaining their portfolio size

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Just one in one hundred buy to let landlords think now is a good time to reduce their portfolios, according...

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Property prices finally seem to have hit the bottom

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

House prices were up 0.8% in April – the first time prices have crept above zero in 2011 and the...

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Nationwide confirms lifeless housing market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Property prices are unlikely to bounce back strongly regardless of how the economy improves over the rest of the year,...

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Buy to let mortgage rates cut by TMW

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th May 2011, 15 years ago | 3

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has cut interest rates across some buy to let mortgages and launched a new fixed rate...

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Sluggish housing market flatlines for another month

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The property market looks to have settled as house sales and mortgage lending seem to follow trends set over the...