Category: Real Estate

Housebuilder Homes by Esh is on course to nearly double its number of live developments before the end of 2024 read more

Fewer aspiring first-time buyers are buying dilapidated properties in need of substantial renovations, according to Scotland-based property portal TSPC. The read more

PropertyWire speaks to Anthony Kyriacou, founder and chief executive of property portal krispyhouse There’s a new challenger on the block read more

Victorian homes are the most searched for period property style, underlining the appeal of Victorian architecture. Rightmove, which conducted the read more

The Bank of England has held the base rate at 5.25% but two members voted for a cut – signalling read more

Propertymark members have urged Wales not to introduce rent controls, with the policy being blamed on cutting rental supply in read more

Complete Technology Group (CTG) has completed Stage 2 of the Building a Safer Future (BSF) Champion Assessment, becoming the first read more

Nottingham has been one of England’s worst areas for declining homeownership affordability in the past decade, analysis from moving platform read more

Some 117 affordable homes are being built at the Lakeside development in Theale, Berkshire. Housing provider Abri is working with read more

Carlos Dhunay, security specialist and owner of telcam, a fire safety systems provider, reveals the five ways to detect a read more

April rents are up by 5.7% year-on-year – driven by a strong increase in the South West, the Rental Index read more

Nearly half of UK adults want to see abandoned or derelict buildings in their cities (49%) revived for new purposes read more

Building societies are lagging behind when it comes to digital propositions, according to money management app Moneyhub. Almost half (47%) read more

The average price of detached homes in Edinburgh has risen by over £1,000 a week over the past year. Between read more

Kayleigh Quinn is associate director at Cavendish Consulting and a seasoned Labour Party Organiser In response to the many challenges read more

Investors are concerned about measures in the Renters Reform Bill which are designed to stop them from unreasonably refusing their read more

Alicia Renshaw, senior associate in Leonard Curtis Legal’s real estate division The commercial real estate landscape in the UK is read more

House prices dropped by 0.4% in April, falling 4% below all-time highs recorded in the summer of 2022, Nationwide’s house read more

RAW Capital Partners has launched a new, lower fixed rate product and announced that it has more than £100 million available read more

You may have read in the press that Gordon Ramsey has found himself in an unenviable position, in that his read more

Propertymark has appealed to Scotland’s new First Minister to re-evaluate plans for rent controls after Humza Yousaf resigned from the read more

By Andrew Creamer, operations strategy and performance director at Grosvenor Property UK At Grosvenor, we have just retrofitted over one read more

When adjusted for inflation costs for conveyancing and removals are significantly below the post-pandemic period, reallymoving’s quarterly Home Move Costs read more

End of life charity Marie Curie has called for the Renters (Reform) Bill to be altered to protect recently bereaved read more

Between now and 2040 the population in Greater London and the East Midlands is projected to rise the most, each read more

The number of Boiler Upgrade Scheme applications has surged by 46% year-on-year, signalling that more homeowners are switching to heat read more

A legal body has hit out at the conveyancing process in England, labelling it “inefficient and ineffective” and saying it read more

Landlord Action founder Paul Shamplina has called for clarity on when the court system will be reformed so landlords and read more

A group of higher education and student housing organisations have raised concerns about the Renters (Reform) Bill’s effect on the read more

A coalition of rental groups including Citizens Advice, Shelter and the Joseph Roundtree Foundation have accused the Renters (Reform) Bill read more

A landlord in London has been slapped with fines and a confiscation order of £78,620 after she split up and read more

Property buyers looking for strong returns should invest in Scottish coastal areas, analysis from Pikl Insurance has found. Buying in read more

Would-be homebuyers are currently enjoying the highest level of springtime choice of homes in five years, Zoopla research has revealed. read more

The quality of Energy Performance Certificate assessors have been called into question by surveyor firm Re:volve Real Estate, which said read more

The much-delayed Renters (Reform) Bill is finally returning to the House of Common this week. On Wednesday the bill will read more

There has been a 150% rise in appointments from Insolvency Practitioners to manage the properties and assets of struggling buy-to-let read more

By Sarah Thompson, managing director, Mortgage Scout If you’re moving home and have either plenty of equity or savings you read more

Rising rents seem to be resulting in tenants staying at their current properties for longer, research from The Deposit Protection read more

By Sean Woolley, Cloud Nine Spain On the 9th of April, Spain’s Minister for Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, announced that they read more

Christopher McFadden is an EPC expert and energy assessor  1. Add an insulating jacket to your hot water tank: If read more

Labour has launched a plan to reclassify and build on poor quality areas of the green belt, dubbed the ‘grey read more

Squatters who occupied a pub owned by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay have now vacated the building – after being ‘served read more

Glasgow, Edinburgh and Leeds are the best home selling hotspots in the UK property market, analysis of government data from read more

The CPI inflation rate dropped to 3.2% in March from 3.4% in February – a decrease that’s been deemed disappointing read more

Typical rent arrears claims climbed to £1,816 in the first quarter of 2024 – a rise of 27% from £1,435 read more

Construction is down so far in 2024, with project starts, new contracts and planning approvals all dropping, concerning research from read more

Butterfield Mortgages has announced the appointment of a new credit administrator, who joins the credit risk team after completing an read more

Ben Thompson, deputy CEO, Mortgage Advice Bureau, explains what to consider when buying with someone else Traditionally buying with a read more

Landlords are increasingly turning to HMOs for better returns, research from lender Shawbrook has revealed. In both 2022 and 2023, read more

The average yield of a buy-to-let property has climbed from 4.9% to 5.8% in the past two years, analysis by read more

The typical age of first-time home buyers is 33, surprisingly staying the same as in 1990, research by Go.Compare home read more

Landlords, flat owners, renters, households who park on the street and businesses have one year left to claim the hundreds read more

Almost half (45%) of homebuyers would consider using a Sharia-complaint mortgage lender, despite there being perceived Islamophobia in the UK. read more

Southwark had the highest number of empty homes of any London borough in 2023, with 5,143 properties sitting empty last read more

The industry needs to provide more properties to second-time buyers and downsizers, rather than overwhelmingly focusing on first-time buyers, estate read more

Cambridge has the most commercial property transactions within the ‘Golden Triangle’ – the UK’s innovation cluster comprising London, Oxford and read more

Managing agents and landlords in Haringey have been ordered to pay a £15,000 fine for operating a hazardous and unlicensed read more

Over four out of five tenants remain unaware of the Renters (Reform) Bill and its contents, surprising research from TDS read more

Some 83 bids were recorded for the former Lighthouse Inn at Capel-le-Ferne, a village on the White Cliffs of Dover, read more

Transfer Ownership For Belize Land For Sale Belize is a beautiful country in Central America that offers many opportunities for read more

Mojo Mortgages and Uswitch have expressed caution about Yorkshire Building Society’s new mortgage product for buyers with a £5,000 deposit. read more

Energy provider Rendesco has urged the government to stick to its timetable when it comes to outlawing gas boilers – read more

Things aren’t getting any better for this Conservative government, as the delays in abolishing Section 21 evictions will only embolden read more

By Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at Knight Frank Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate read more

First-time buyers purchased 33% of homes in Britain so far in 2024, up from 2023’s total of 29%, Hamptons research read more

Yorkshire Building Society has launched a fee-free mortgage with a deposit of just £5,000. The product can be used to read more

Managing agents and landlords in Haringey have been ordered to pay a £15,000 fine for operating a hazardous and unlicensed read more

By Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at Knight Frank Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate read more

First-time buyers purchased 33% of homes in Britain so far in 2024, up from 2023’s total of 29%, Hamptons research read more

The Renters Reform Bill will be brought to the House of Commons after Easter – while alterations will include a read more

The Renters Reform Bill will be brought to the House of Commons after Easter – while alterations will include a read more

Scottish new build house prices have soared ahead of existing homes, analysis by property firm DJ Alexander has found. Between read more

Yorkshire Building Society has launched a fee-free mortgage with a deposit of just £5,000. The product can be used to read more

A mixed-use development on brownfield land in the centre of Guildford has started construction, following an agreement with developer Native read more

Propertymark has urged property agents to be ahead of the curve as pressure builds to enact regulation of property agents. read more

The Mortgage Works has cut buy-to-let mortgages so they now start at 3.99%, in promising signs that mortgage rates are read more

The plan to reduce all ground rents to a peppercorn rent have reportedly been axed by the Prime Minister and read more

Renters are more likely to feel lonely and unsafe when walking home after dark than the wider population, a poll read more

Julie James has been appointed housing minister, after previously being climate change minister. She was appointed by Wales’ new First read more

Rental tech platform Goodlord has launched a PRO Referencing product for letting agents across the UK. The PRO offering integrates read more

The art’otel hotel London Hoxton in Shoreditch is opening its doors on 24th April 2024. This is the second hotel read more

London is still the most desirable place to live for aspiring homebuyers despite the high cost of housing in the read more

A large number of prospective buyers had postponed that move until the Spring Budget had come and gone, research from read more

The Bank of England is likely following the US market by being cautious about cutting the base rate, property and read more

The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has written to Michael Gove – urging the government to stop ‘sitting read more

Rob Morgan, chief investment analyst at Charles Stanley An increasing regulatory burden and a tightening tax net has already seen read more

Members of parliament want housing benefit rates to be updated annually to match the bottom 30% of rents – a read more

Greater London is the region with the highest volume of abandoned and derelict homes, with nearly 290,000 standing completely empty, read more

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has told the Mayor of London to review two policies in the London Plan – which read more

The average price of sold homes in Prime London dropped by 7.8% annually in February, taking them back to early read more

A landlord entrepreneur was successful in pitching a thermostat product on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den last week – but it’s read more

infinitSpace, a tech-led provider of flexible workspaces, has entered into a management agreement with leading Central European investor Peter Korbačka read more

From next month the personal Capital Gains tax allowance will fall from £12,300 to £6,000 – causing the majority of read more

The office market in Birmingham is on an upward curve after a strong end to last year, according to a read more

Martijn Van Schaveren is a co-founder of MyPup, a green parcel consolidation and delivery service helping to decrease pollution in read more

People operating Airbnbs in the US should look to Arizona cities, which offer substantial income compared to the average weekly read more

Housing association SO Resi, part of Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing, has launched into the London Living Rent sector for the read more

HomeLet’s CEO expressed disappointed at the lack of help in the Chancellor’s Spring Budget, as tenants are spending a third read more

The UK’s inflation rate is likely to fall to 2% in the second quarter of 2024, which would bring it read more

Landlords are considering reducing or flattening rents for tenants, according to a surprising poll taken by property finance broker Finbri. read more

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt decided against launching a 99% mortgage scheme due to fears that it could push people into negative read more

Kensington and Chelsea has the highest proportion of old stock – meaning those homes are likely to cost more to read more

The value of mortgages that have fallen into arrears reached £20.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, 50.3% higher read more

A rogue landlord who rented a 22-bedroom Kensington property infested with mushrooms and mould has been handed a £500,000 fine. read more

Scottish landlords and tenants are at loggerheads over rent controls, a public consultation on the Scottish government’s New Deal for read more

By Ritchie Clapson CEng MIStructE, co-founder of propertyCEO Property development is often thought of as being a business for the read more

PropertyWire speaks to Marie-Julie Gheysens, who played a prominent role in launching The Arc development in London’s Shoreditch, consisting of read more

Holiday let owners are being unfairly blamed for rising house prices and availability, which has led to the abolition of read more

Ben Beadle from the National Residential Landlords Association has hit out at the budget for failing to boost the quantity read more

People living in Colchester, Norwich, York, Chester and Derby are most likely to want to move in England, research from read more

A vacant pub near Norwich dating back to the reign of King George III in the 18th century is coming read more

The Mayor of London has published a five-year plan for the Royal Docks, which is set to employ 55,000 and read more

Michael Cook is chief executive officer of property firm Leaders Romans Group.  A drop in the rate of inflation The most read more

Operators of Airbnbs will no longer have tax advantages over individual landlords letting out buy-to-let properties, as the Chancellor has read more

In the Budget the Chancellor surprised many by abolishing multiple dwellings relief for stamp duty land tax. The policy provided read more

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s move to lower the amount of capital gains charged on property sales from 28% to 24% could read more

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has hit out at the Tories for continuing to delay the ban on Section 21 evictions, read more

The Conservative Party is widely reported as having scrapped its 99% mortgage scheme, which it was considering introducing in tomorrow’s read more

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his 2024 Spring Budget on Wednesday 6 March. It was originally thought he would introduce read more

Annual house price growth reached 1.2% in February, returning to positive territory for the first time in over a year, read more

The National Residential Landlords Association has called for the government to raise levels of Universal Credit to deal with current read more

UK property investors are optimistic for the year ahead, even in the face of persistent economic and regulatory challenges, new read more

Last year property sales fell by a staggering £141 billion, outlining the scale of the market contraction that took place read more

The government should cut stamp duty on second property purchases and introduce a scheme similar to Help to Buy to read more

Nearly 4,000 people were recorded as sleeping rough last year, a 27% year-on-year increase, Shelter analysis of government data shows. read more

Backbench Tory MPs are set to water down protections for renters and increase rights for landlords, the BBC reports. It’s read more

The number of landlords falling into arrears has climbed by 93% in a single year, research from lender Octane Capital read more

The market quickened up in February, as more sellers accepted some lower offers on their properties. Zoopla research says buyer read more

Work has begun to demolish largely derelict buildings to make way for 80 ‘affordable’ and sustainable apartments by Old Trafford read more

Rental arrears claims have climbed by 50% in the year to December, highlighting how stretched tenants have become, data released read more

Property investors have been told there is huge potential in purpose-built accommodation, including student and multi-family. Rob Martin, global head read more

Chetwood Financial has appointed Roselle Allsop as its new director of marketing. Founded in 2016, Wrexham-based Chetwood Financial is a read more

Rising swap rates are set to dampen down mortgage market activity – putting the breaks on a positive start to read more

Hawaii is the least affordable US state for people to save for a deposit and buy property, a study by read more

Some 37% of estate agents and other property firms experienced financial crime in 2023, jumping from 17% the year before. read more

Leaseholds are changing in 2024. The Land Registry is introducing a reform to the current leasehold system in their 2022+ read more

While the mortgage market is showing signs of rebounding, it’s remortgagers who are driving this increase, as opposed to new read more

Landlords in it for the long haul should invest in Bristol, which just saw returns grow by 6.6% annually, Aldermore’s read more

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is planning to launch a 99% mortgage market scheme, as the Conservatives look to woo younger voters read more

Technology infrastructure specialist NCG has appointed Christopher Baldock as its new chair. Founded in 2019, NCG is an internet service read more

The UK’s renters are not on side with the government – in what is likely to spell bad news for read more

Some tenants are severely struggling in the current climate, as one in 10 (11%) have had to resort to food read more

Richard Mattison, director of pensions administrator, Whitehall Group, explains benefit of paying rent to your own retirement fund and the read more

By Allison Thompson, national lettings managing director, Leaders Romans Group Typically, rents rise in line with wages – which, in read more

Construction firms have been urged to start using modular construction in order to make the process more cost-effective. This comes read more

Airbnbs will require planning permissions and local councils will have the power to remove permitted development rights, under a new read more

Last week the government pushed for building on more brownfield land, but for me that’ll barely have any effect compared read more

The cost of new lets has increased by 8.3% year-on-year – the first time they’ve dropped to single digits in read more

The UK inflation rate has remained at 4%, defying forecasts of a rise. The Bank expected the inflation rate to read more

HomeLet has launched VISTA, a tenant referencing service designed to mitigate fraud risk. The tenant referencing and lettings insurance company read more

Guy Westlake is founder & chairman of Lavanda In the rapidly evolving world of residential real estate, “flex” has become read more

The city of Preston has been named the UK region most likely to be renovated by interior company Swift Direct read more

Fintech platform TPP has urged investors not to overreact to headlines around a recession in the UK. GDP growth fell read more

Over a third of property professionals would like to see the reintroduction of Help to Buy or some government-led initiative read more

The government is considering changing the permitted development right requirement for heat pumps to be smaller than 0.6 cubic metres, read more

Two landlords in Cardiff have been handed hefty fines for renting out dangerous properties that lacked basic fire safety measures. read more

By Daniel Austin, chief executive and co-founder at ASK Partners The UK has a widely reported and growing housing shortfall read more

Some 39% of tenants don’t feel able to reach out to their letting agents with property-related issues. The research, from read more

A developer has launched a proposal for a new community in west Edinburgh that promises 3,000 homes, office space to read more

Democracy is on the line if young people feel unable to get on the housing ladder, housing secretary Michael Gove read more

Some two in five undergraduate students have thought about leaving university due to the cost of rent, a poll by read more

Councils are the next Post Office scandal, as they are guilty of severe maladministration, excessive enforcement and unfair licensing conditions read more

By Sarah Thompson, managing director, Mortgage Scout Compared with a decade ago, today’s first-time buyers are older, more likely to read more

House prices have risen for four months in a row, as they increased by 1.3% in January, Halifax’s house price read more

Evictions and repossessions are on the rise – as the Law Society of England and Wales warned that housing legal read more

The former chief executive of WeWork Adam Neumann has attempted to buy his beleaguered former company back. He approached the read more

A growing number of landlords are falling into mortgage arrears compared to their residential counterparts, UK Finance data shows. Between read more

The government has stopped increasing the money disabled people in England can claim to adapt their homes – seemingly dropping read more

Landlords are dealing with excessive delays in regaining possession of their properties due a broken court and bailiff system. One read more

The National Landlord Investment Show is being held at Olympia London on 6 March 2024. The free-to-attend one-day event features read more

A landlord who allowed his properties to be used as cannabis growing factories has been jailed. Jeremy Southgate, 63, installed read more

Mortgage brokers are becoming increasingly bullish about the state of the mortgage market – a promising sign that the flow read more

Locksmiths are the highest-earning tradespeople in the UK, with an average hourly wage of £44.65, analysis from Capital on Tap read more

Student housing is seen as the most appealing property investment in the next 12 months, according to a report from read more

Ritchie Clapson CEng MIStructE is a veteran property developer of 40+ years, an author, industry commentator, and co-founder of the read more

Members of the National Residential Landlords Association can now use Title Guardian’s anti-fraud, digital monitoring tool, after a partnership was read more

The number of mortgages approved in December soared by 25.6% year-on-year, signalling that the buyers are settling into the environment read more

The cost of renting increased by 1.8% in Greater London in January – pushing average prices up to £1,968 in read more

London tenants who stay in their property for more than a year are paying 13 months’ rent a year to read more

The Labour Party has committed to extending Awaab’s Law – where social landlords have to fix hazards quickly – to read more

Landlords can suffer a ‘double jeopardy’ of tenants committing anti-social behaviour and taking action against them due to selective licensing read more

Michael Ellis, partner in the property & commercial litigation team at Wilsons Solicitors LLP Over the past 10 years residential read more

The amount of super prime tenancies has increased by 10% in 2023, signalling a return of the prestigious end of read more

By Sarah Thompson, managing director, Mortgage Scout Compared with a decade ago, today’s first-time buyers are older, more likely to read more

While property prices are set to fall across much of the UK in early 2024, the North East should be read more

The Bristol economy is expected to grow by 8.9% over the next five years, significantly outpacing the rest of the read more

Local authorities need to hold landlord forums to allow them to properly engage with the Renters Reform Bill passing through read more

There’s been a strong seasonal bounce of mortgage activity – driven by pent-up demand and rates dropping below 5%, Zoopla read more

The UK’s next elected government needs to engage in an “urgent and sensible conversation” around the green belt, global property read more

By Allison Thompson, national lettings managing director, Leaders Romans Group 2024 will be a year to watch for landlords, especially read more

Building inspections are the most in-demand property management service in London, SBA Property Management has found. This is likely a read more

People living in Vancouver on average have C$360,683 consumer debt – six times the national average in Canada, research from read more

Glasgow has been the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy-to-let properties in the past year, read more

James Parratt is in the real estate disputes team at Thomson Snell & Passmore Insolvency numbers have risen 10% from read more

The average cost of a short-term holiday let sits at £3,325 per month across 30 UK hotspots – 292% more read more

Complete Fibre, the Full Fibre infrastructure specialist, has been selected by social housing provider Raven Housing Trust to enable the read more

Multiple London landlords have come forward saying they have been scammed by the same letting agent working in tandem with read more

Storm damage to property was the cause of over a quarter of claims for their residential property clients in 2023. read more

The government is considering introducing a 1% deposit mortgage scheme as part of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s upcoming March Budget, The read more

It takes an average of 16 property viewings for homes to be sold, research from Quick Move Now has revealed. read more