Investment manager, Hargreaves Lansdown has discovered that younger people  – between 18 and 34 are now more likely to be downsizing rather than taking on larger loans to move.

As the buy-to-let market becomes ever more complex, help is at hand in a handbook written by experts Paul Shamplina and Kate Faulkner.

Buy-to-let investors have plenty to think about in 2019. Andrew Turner, Chief Executive, Commercial Trust, a specialist buy-to-let broker, explores this complex market.

The proportion of overseas landlords within the UK buy-to-let property market has halved to 5.5% this year, half the figures in 2010.

The number and value of cash purchases of property within the UK has reduced significantly over the past decade, says Hamptons International.

Investors were out in force at SDL Auctions Bigwood’s 133 lot September auction which raised over £17 million with a success rate of 85 per cent.

A landlord and his managing agent in Tufnell Park, North London have been fined a total of £22,000 over an unlicensed HMO.

380,000 landlords plan to reduce their portfolios, says the NLA. Nick Mann, Associate at Seddons, reviews the potential impact.