UK Mortgage & Property Related News
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s under pressure (definitely not an emergency budget) Spring Statement alleviated concerns among private landlords by avoiding an increase in Stamp Duty rates for second-home purchases.
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Whereas those who invested in property were once seen as being ahead of the curve or making a sensible decision, there are now those who appear to believe they are making some sort of terrible mistake.
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The biggest problem facing landlords is that the PRS is like a pendulum, swinging slowly from one policy extreme to the other, and there is nobody left in parliament or the civil service who remembers what the PRS was like before 1988.
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A landlord’s buy-to-let flats sold for £1.15 million in 4 weeks, another in just 2 weeks for 18% higher than market value, and property portfolios performing at the same level of profitability as when we started in the rental sector 15 years ago: these might sound like numbers from years back, but this is exactly what Landlord Sales Agency is achieving for landlords right now.
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Number of 80% buy-to-let mortgages has more than doubled in past two years
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Property expert, Phil Spencer, says there is a chance Reeves could up the tax
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UK landlords are more optimistic than previously thought about buy-to-let as the market gears up to absorb economic and regulatory challenges, according to a new survey.
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A Green Party MP has expressed surprise that landlords will pass on costs of meeting new standards to their tenants.
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The Renters’ Rights Bill promises a landlord database to help those in the sector be more compliant, but it won’t help landlords that have already born the brunt of fines, writes Nigel Lewis.
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Investor confidence continues to improve thanks to falling borrowing costs and a strengthening housing market, with the build-to-rent space recording a stellar 2024.
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