Surely if you can afford to pay nearly £1,500 in rent, you can afford a mortgage? Well, yes,...
Buy to let
“Rental prices up 6.2% in 12 months to January – ONS”
The number of under-40s, in particular, renting without apparent hope of buying has risen by over...
“Rents up 9% in 2023 while voids hit historic lows – Goodlord”
Here’s the other side of the ‘housing crisis’. Rents are up by an above-inflation percentage,...
“Santander tightening buy-to-let affordability ‘disaster’ for market”
It’s not just spiralling interest rates which are affecting buy to lets. These have meant that...
The end of ‘buy-to-let’?
‘The Renters’ (Reform) Bill, introduced to Parliament today, delivers the Government’s 2019...
“Annual house price growth turns negative in February, Nationwide”
Negative growth. What a great and typical piece of economists’ jargon. I think they mean house...
“Lloyds boss says business case for buy-to-let ‘really difficult'”
Record low interest rates, soaring house prices and our love affair for property (we all...
“Property sales to fall 21% next year as mortgage arrears rise”
OK, I know I’ve been predicting a property market ‘crash’, or at least a slowdown, for a year or...
“Buy-to-let mortgage payments increase by 286% in one year”
It’s changes in the rental market which will have the biggest effect on property prices in the...