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Rental demand up by 14% as supply falls
Rightmove’s analysis of its own listings for January suggests demand in the rental market is 14 per cent up on a year earlier – just as supply is precisely 14 per cent down. The website states that the market, both for rentals and sales, remains remarkably buoyant,...
Buy-to-let sales boom as landlords rush to benefit from stamp duty holiday
Landlords behind highest % of BTL purchases since 2016, according to Hamptons. Buy-to-let landlords are joining the rush to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday, with the proportion of property sales agreed with investors hitting its highest level in four years....
A game changer for buy-to-let and tenants? As corporate landlords muscle into letting homes we look
For many years the Government has indicated it would like to see the UK’s private rented sector ‘professionalised’. That meant more, large scale landlords funded by pension scheme money and companies with a long-term view providing consistent service to tenants, and...