Commercial Trust news archive

Prominent UK lenders have agreed to halt arrears repossessions over the festive period.…

HM Treasury confirms there is no change to Capital Gains Tax (CGT), for now.…

In the latest property price forecast, property portal Rightmove has predicted a continued increase in property prices in 2022. …

Accord, the intermediary-only buy to let lender of Yorkshire Building Society Group, will no longer require a minimum income for buy to let landlords.…

New data from Zoopla shows rental growth has shot to its highest levels for over a decade and that London is a landlords market once more.…

The National Residential Landlords Association has published research that two-thirds of local councils have not prosecuted PRS landlords in the last three years. …

Last week the government announced a new strategy to reduce carbon emissions. One area they plan to do this is through the use of grants to allow property owners to install heat pumps or other alternative heating solutions to the traditional gas boiler.…

With products on the market below 1%, we take a look at the buy to let products on the market and investigate the forces that could cause them to change.…

With travel restrictions easing, the landlord community is watching to see if the recent boom in holiday lets has been a trend or a change in attitude.…

According to new data by Shawbrook Bank, two out of 10 landlords use a credit card, or other short-term loan, to refurbish their buy to lets. …

The government has been challenged to raise the landlord cost cap on Energy Performance Certificate upgrades, in an effort to improve the energy efficiency of the sector.…

Property listings have seen a notable increase across the country according to new data from property data site Homesearch. Will it be enough to meet increased demand?…

The PRS has doubled in size, since the introduction of the first buy to let mortgage, 25 years ago this month. We take a look at the establishment of the product, as well as the positive effects it has had on the UK.…

Dominic Agace, chief executive of Winkworth estate agency has responded to calls from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer for further tax penalties on landlords. He says that tenants will be worse off if landlords are taxed, as the cost will come to them.…

More than 50 organisations operating within the property sector have penned an open letter to the Government to use Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) to create a database for the public and private sectors.…

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has released its latest Residential Market Survey. It shows that whilst property sales in August softened for the second month in a row, they are likely to stabilise in the coming months.…

Virtual Right to Rent checks, which were due to have been scrapped at the end of August, are now permissible until April 2022.…

A government department has admitted it has “no idea” how many landlords have been convicted under the Homes (Fitness for Habitation) Act 2018.…