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Rushbrook published research on 19 October showing 1,322 investment portfolios listed for sale across England, with a combined asking value of £1.398 billion. The average asking price is £859,970.
Read articleUK Finance published its Q2 2026 buy-to-let lending data on 21 October, and the headline numbers look impressive: 58,051 loans, £10.7 billion advanced, a 20.6% volume increase and a 25% value increase year on year.
Read articleChestertons reported in mid-October 2026 that approximately one in four London landlords who listed a property for sale following the Renters' Rights Act's introduction on 1 May 2026 had since withdrawn the listing and
Read articleThe government and Flood Re announced on 13 October 2026 that Flood Performance Certificate pilots will begin before the end of the year in flood-prone parts of England.
Read articleHamptons published analysis on 18 October 2026, using Connells Group transaction data from September, showing that 56% of former tenants who bought their first home in September 2026 were paying more on their mortgage
Read articleBrighton and Hove City Council paused the second stage of its selective licensing rollout on or around 9 October 2026, less than two weeks before the scheme was due to go live in Regency and Central Hove.
Read articleSavills published analysis on 15 October showing that England's rental supply problem is not evenly spread. The sharpest squeeze is at the affordable end.
Read articleRightmove published its October 2026 rental market tracker on 14 October, covering advertised asking rents across England, Scotland and Wales. Two milestones appeared in the same dataset.
Read articlePropertymark published its October 2026 Housing Insight Report this week, covering September rental data from member letting agents across 11 UK regions. The headline: rents fell in nine of them.
Read articleParagon Bank published its Q3 2026 buy-to-let yield data this week, and the headline figure is the strongest the sector has seen since early 2011.
Read articleThe Bank of England voted on 17 September to hold the base rate at 3.75%. Six members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted to hold. Three voted to raise to 4%.
Read articleThe Office for National Statistics released its September 2026 Private Rent and House Prices bulletin this week, covering data through August 2026. UK private rents rose 4.6% annually.
Read articleResearch published this week by Rely puts hard numbers on something anyone who has spent time at property networking events over the last few years has already noticed. The BTL market is getting younger.
Read articleParagon Bank published its annual student rental yield league table this week, and Stoke-on-Trent is top again.
Read articleZoopla published its September 2026 Rental Market Report this week with a headline that caught my attention. Rental supply has fallen for the first time in three years.
Read articleHamptons published its September 2026 analysis of BTL company incorporation data this week.
Read articleConnells Group published data this week showing the scale of the UK housebuilder collapse since Help to Buy closed in October 2022. In the first seven months of 2026, 6,815 new housebuilder companies registered.
Read articleRICS published its August 2026 UK Residential Market Survey on 10 September. The headline from the lettings data: respondents expecting rents to rise over the next three months came in at 44%, up from 33% in July.
Read articleRICS published its June 2026 UK Residential Market Survey on 9 July.
Read articleThe Goodlord Rental Index for June 2026, published on 2 July, contains a number most investors have missed because it sits behind a trade press paywall.
Read articleThe Office for National Statistics published its June 2026 Private Rent and House Prices bulletin this morning. Average UK private rent: £1,383 per month, up 3.3% in the twelve months to May 2026.
Read articleZoopla published analysis this week showing the gap between average UK house prices and average flat prices is the widest it has been in at least thirty years. Houses average £327,000. Flats average £193,000.
Read articleRightmove published its June 2026 House Price Index on 16 June. Average asking prices fell 0.6%, dropping £2,113 to £376,191. That is the biggest June fall in 14 years. The media is calling it a shock.
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