Buying to let
Buy-to-let firms become biggest single type of business in UK, data shows
Four times more buy-to-let firms than fast-food shops now registered at Companies House as landlords switch set-up to cut tax payments
Julia Kollewe
17, Mar, 2025 @12:01 AM
Right to buy is wrong, and Labour must take action | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to Aditya Chakrabortty’s article on the council housing selloff initiated by Margaret Thatcher
19, Feb, 2025 @5:45 PM
Number of new UK buy-to-let mortgages halves in just over a year
Sector shrinks in size for first time since launch of products in 1996 as higher costs drive out investors
Rupert Jones
22, Jul, 2024 @4:19 PM
The no-deposit mortgage that lets tenants buy the home they live in … with a gift from the landlord
Under a ‘concessionary purchase’, property owners can agree a cut-price sale to incumbent renters to save costs
Rupert Jones
01, Jul, 2024 @9:00 AM
The Notting Hill slums where I grew up were replaced by social housing – but right to buy wrecked it | Letter
Letter: John Bird writes that Thatcher’s policies destroyed the dream of security promised by social housing in London
16, May, 2024 @4:56 PM
Average monthly UK rent up 9% – the highest annual increase recorded
Cost of renting rises in all parts of the UK, ONS says, with the average monthly rent in England now £1,276
Hilary Osborne
20, Mar, 2024 @1:28 PM
UK lender trials ban on new holiday let mortgages for tourist hotspots
Leeds building society believes it is the first to restrict new lending for holiday homes in Norfolk and Yorkshire
Rupert Jones
24, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM
Renters left at mercy of brutal ‘no-fault’ eviction policy | Letters
Letters: Iain Ramsay on the insidious growth of the overindebtedness industry, which preys on undefended debt claims in court. Plus letters from Christopher Dalton and Mim Umney-Gray
20, Dec, 2023 @6:01 PM
I spent a day in a court where ‘no-fault’ evictions reach 10 an hour. Whose fault is this, Rishi Sunak? | Polly Toynbee
Promises to protect tenants in England have been broken, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee
15, Dec, 2023 @8:00 AM
Should I use my lifetime Isa to buy a house to rent out or wait until I leave the forces?
Once I have left I intend to make a purchase with my girlfriend but need advice as a first-time buyer
Virginia Wallis
30, Oct, 2023 @7:00 AM
UK house prices rise at slowest post-summer rate since 2008 crash
Rightmove says 0.5% rise is smallest for time of year since financial crisis 15 years ago as higher interest rates hit home
Jasper Jolly
15, Oct, 2023 @11:01 PM
Supply shortages and mortgage rate rises push UK rents to highest point ever
Average rental property receives three times more enquiries from prospective tenants than in 2019
Miles Brignall
04, Oct, 2023 @11:01 PM
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