UK property investment magazineTuesday, 18 August 2026
Market Snapshot
UK Avg House Price £278,024 ▼ 0.6% MoM2yr Fixed 3.96% ▲ 0.91ppBoE Base Rate 3.75% Avg Rental Yield 6.1% Updated weeklyUK Avg House Price £278,024 ▼ 0.6% MoM2yr Fixed 3.96% ▲ 0.91ppBoE Base Rate 3.75% Avg Rental Yield 6.1% Updated weekly

UK Property Investment News

Stay updated with the latest UK property investment news, market insights, and trends. Expert analysis on residential and commercial real estate developments.

Searches for pet friendly rental properties have halved since May. Here is what the shift really means for landlord returns, deposits and damage risk.
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Pet friendly rental properties: renter searches halve as blanket bans end

Searches for pet friendly rental properties have halved since May. Here is what the shift really means for landlord returns, deposits and damage risk.

By Anna Ibbotson · July 26, 2026
UK mortgage rates rise to a one-month high as Middle East tension stalls rate-cut hopes. What landlords and portfolio investors should do next.
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UK mortgage rates rise to highest level in a month as Middle East tension bites

UK mortgage rates rise to a one-month high as Middle East tension stalls rate-cut hopes. What landlords and portfolio investors should do next.

Anna Ibbotson · July 24, 2026
Rent controls ruled out by Angela Rayner just days after Burnham floated a freeze. Here is what the U-turn means for landlords and buy-to-let yields.
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Rent controls ruled out as Rayner overrules Burnham freeze plan

Rent controls ruled out by Angela Rayner just days after Burnham floated a freeze. Here is what the U-turn means for landlords and buy-to-let yields.

Anna Ibbotson · July 24, 2026
Britain's private rented sector has passed a milestone few would have predicted at the turn of the century.
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Limited company landlords boom as registrations climb 1,700 per cent since 2000

Limited company landlords are multiplying, with a record 34,128 firms registered in 2025. See where growth is fastest and what it means for your portfolio.

Anna Ibbotson · July 21, 2026
Angela Rayner is back as housing secretary, less than a year after the stamp duty row that ended her first spell in the job.
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Angela Rayner returns as housing secretary in Burnham’s first cabinet

Angela Rayner is back as housing secretary under PM Andy Burnham. What her return means for landlords, the Renters' Rights Act and buy-to-let investors.

Anna Ibbotson · July 20, 2026
John Healey has been appointed chancellor of the exchequer, and property investors now face a familiar question with an unfamiliar face: what will the new chancellor mean for the property market?
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What the new chancellor means for the property market as John Healey takes No 11

John Healey is in at No 11. What the new chancellor means for the property market, from stamp duty review hopes to landlord tax.

Anna Ibbotson · July 20, 2026
Landlords woke to fresh policy risk on 20 July 2026 as Andy Burnham, in his first hours as prime minister, confirmed that UK rent controls are among the options on his desk to ease the cost of living.
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UK rent controls under active review as Burnham takes office

UK rent controls are under active review as PM Andy Burnham weighs cost of living help. What landlords should watch before Tuesday's announcements.

Property Portfolio Investor · July 20, 2026
The company behind UKREiiF, the UK's Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum, is taking its investment matchmaking model abroad for the first time, announcing a UKREiiF Australia event with a 2027 launch planned, according to the organisers.
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UKREiiF Australia event to mark forum’s first move overseas

UKREiiF Australia event confirmed as the forum behind £4bn of UK deals takes its model overseas. What the expansion signals for global property capital.

Property Portfolio Investor · July 20, 2026
Nine in ten people who bought a leasehold home regret it, according to a new report from Propertymark that delivers an uncomfortable verdict on leasehold property investment: eight years of reform have failed to free flat owners from rising costs, opaque rules and a market where sales routinely collapse.
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Leasehold property investment warning as Propertymark declares flats still a life sentence

Propertymark warns leasehold is still a life sentence. What unsellable flats and stalled reform now mean for your leasehold property investment.

Anna Ibbotson · July 19, 2026
Property and construction has become the single largest industry for borrowing on Funding Circle's platform, with lending to the sector up 30 per cent year on year, according to the lender's latest data.
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Property development finance surge puts sector top of Funding Circle lending table

Funding Circle data shows property development finance up 30 per cent in a year. See why landlords keep borrowing and where the smart money is heading.

Anna Ibbotson · July 19, 2026