Research

Rents in Inner London have been rising at double-digit pace for 16 of the last 18 months. But how long can ...

It’s not landlords selling up that’s causing stock issues and subsequently rent rises, but a lack of new in...

High prices and lower yields close to home are forcing London’s investors to look further afield.

The transition to higher interest rates has hit landlords. Investors are collectively paying £15.0bn in mor...

Our August lettings index reveals annual rental growth soared to 12.0%, the fastest pace we've seen since t...

House prices in Prime Central London have, for the most part, been treading water ever since 2016. But will...

With rents up 9.9% on the same time last year, our deep dive focusses on what's fuelling the fires under th...

In the face of rising rents more young adults are choosing to stay home, saving them £1.3bn in rent each year.

The landscape of British homeownership has been steadily shifting, with the high homeownership rates of old...

As price growth slows, landlords won’t be surprised to see the capital gain on their investment drop back. ...

The rising cost of energy-intensive construction products has pushed up service charges by an average of 8....

For the first time on record the holiday let market has outshone traditional long-term lets...

Average rents outside London passed £1,000 for the first time.

With the average landlord turning 60, it’s predominantly older investors who are leaving the market. Our e...

We analyse the numbers to see how both landlords and tenants have reacted to the legislation.

High mortgage rates have meant new buy-to-let purchases are increasingly cash funded, particularly down sou...

90,370 tenants left the capital last year, with the numbers doubling since 2012

Who has been buying and selling all the lots at auctions?

Our analysis shows that the growth in the number of privately rented households between 2011 and 2021 was l...

Why are landlords taking up a bigger share of the market despite fewer sales?

As of last month, rents in every region have surpassed their pre-Covid averages. With the average rent for ...

Rising rates are rapidly pushing up costs. In some cases, this means that landlords may start to see their ...

Strong rental growth has meant that tenants are having to trade-down and lose a bedroom in order to spend t...

Tenants are set to pay £63.0bn by the end of 2022, a record high and the first big jump in five years.

For the first time since 2016, investors bought more properties than they sold.

As strong rental growth and rising energy bills add to living costs, financial pressures are raining down o...

The government’s proposal to ensure that all new rental properties have an EPC rating of at least a C by 20...

Towards the end of last year, the easing of restrictions brought about a return to the office, luring peop...

Over the last four years the number of landlords who have put their buy-to-let properties into a company, r...

Soaring house price growth over the last 18 months has driven up the amount of money homeowners have made.

2021 is likely to mark the largest outmigration from London for at least a generation, but is this trend se...

To find out how rents across the regions have fared since the start of the pandemic, have a read of Novembe...

Buried within the OBR’s costings of the 2021 budget were details of a rise in the stamp duty surcharge. Whi...

Despite investors stamp duty bills falling by a third, there is little sign that the stamp duty holiday led...

The North of England and the Midlands have dominated buy-to-let in England in recent years, but there are s...

The total amount of rent paid by tenants across Great Britain has fallen 8% from a peak of £62.4bn in 2018 ...

As government regulation has changed over the years, eating into the profitability of the buy-to-let sector...

The staycation boom is going from strength to strength, with our research showing that there was a signific...

It appears that late spring marked the bottom of the Inner London market. For the first time since April 20...

It's been just over a year since building sites started to re-open but the evidence since then points to fe...

The recent rush of investors purchasing buy-to-let properties has begun to wane as the end of the stamp dut...

The frantic desire to move bought on by the pandemic has been felt in the rental market too as the time it ...

Our March 2021 lettings index shows that last year the average landlord sold their buy-to-let for £82k more...

Our April lettings index reveals that 250,000 fewer homes have been bought by landlords in the last five ye...

Rental growth outside London hit the highest figure on record since the index began in 2012.

The removal of tax relief on mortgage interest payments has led to a record number of new buy-to-let limite...

January 2021 lettings index - the stamp duty holiday has accelerated the fall in cash landlord purchases, w...