Here’s a little multiple choice question for you.
Buy-to-let will:
A. Contract significantly as landlords cut their losses and sell, sell, sell
B. Hold firm in the short term and expand thereafter as landlords rake in the profits thanks to rising demand
Skandia, the savings and pensions chappies, would definitely put their tick next to ‘A’ – [...]

A recent article I wrote about the problems of renting a property with a pet seems to have struck a chord, judging by the number of responses we’ve received.
We even had a woman from Holland demanding, rather haughtily, to know what had happened to ‘animal-friendly England, the one time leaders of animal protection’.
Why, in her country, [...]

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has just published a new report on the Private Rented Sector.
Its author, Professor Michael Ball, argues that rents could rise by 10-15 per cent in 2008 and 2009.
Rents, he claims, will be especially strong in London and the South East where demand is highest, but will slide in northern [...]