National specialist lending packager, Complete FS, has suggested that this year could be a bumper one for the BTL sector.

Away from the ‘portal wars’ that seem to be dominating the agency headlines at the moment, there is an ongoing housing market to consider and 2015 in particular raises some very...

The UK ‘living wage’ - an hourly rate based on the amount needed to cover the basic costs of living – was recently raised by 20p to £7.85.

£180k of funding for a major programme designed to make it much easier for people on modest incomes to build their own homes is being provided by The Nationwide Foundation.

As vote ends independence uncertainty, Scotland sees a second month of prices falling.

According to a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which came out today, 6 million private renters could be living in poverty by 2040.

Home Group has called on chancellor George Osborne to give social landlords the flexibility they need to tackle the housing crisis.

September data released from the Land Registry has shown a 7.2% increase in average prices but also that growth in the UK housing market is relaxing.

According to the RICS UK Construction Market Survey, private housing and private commercial construction activity has hit the highest recorded levels since 1994.

Statistics released by the BBA have shown that Year-on-year, new mortgage lending is 15% higher and approvals for house purchase have risen by 5%.