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Landlords switching to Airbnb for lucrative holiday lets risk breaching buy-to-let mortgage terms
Residential Landlords Association warns of London landlords worsening housing crisis by growing use of Airbnb.
House prices defy Brexit uncertainty — but only because there are too few homes for sale
Nationwide house price index for August shows faster growth than July.
Bank of England says UK mortgage approvals fell to 18-month low in July
Mortgage approvals fell from 64,152 in June to 60,912 last month, short of analysts' forecast for a 62,000 reading.
Number of housing completions falls in England despite government drive
Housing charity Shelter says government at risk of missing target of one million new homes by 2020.
House prices will fall by 1% in 2017 as Brexit weighs the housing market down
Prices set to slide amid 'weaker prospects for confidence, household incomes and the labour market'.
Private landlords raking in £9.3bn a year from government's bloated housing benefit bill
National Housing Federation says affordable housing shortage and higher rents driving up housing benefit bill.
Councils are 'dismissive and discriminatory' of a rising number of homeless people, say MPs
Communities and Local Government Committee calls for cross-Whitehall strategy to end homelessness crisis.
London overtaken by the East of England as region with the fastest-growing house prices
Average UK house price rose by 8.7% over the year to June 2016, hitting £214,000.
Asking prices drop with London property worst-affected, says Rightmove
Rightmove house price index shows fall in asking prices in line with average for summer slowdown despite Brexit.
House price growth slumps to a three-year low after the EU referendum
Rics said new buyer enquiries dropped at the fastest pace since 2008.
Brexit sparks increase in price reductions on homes for sale, says Zoopla
A third of sellers cut prices by an average £25,000 but discounts 'not as high' as expected.
Brexit uncertainty does little to curb the rising cost of rents
HomeLet says average UK rent rose 2.3% over the year to July 2016, reaching £779 a month.
UK house prices fell 1% in month after Brexit vote
Halifax house price index shows slowdown, though it is 'too early' to blame poll.
What the Bank of England's interest rate cut means for the UK housing market
BoE slashes base rate in half and boost stimulus as Brexit uncertainty weighs on UK economy.
House price growth is collapsing in London, says Capital Economics
Capital Economics predicts fall in London's house price growth from 12.1% to zero in 2016.
Homeownership has fallen faster in one area of the UK than any other - and it isn't London
Greater Manchester worst hit with 14.5% slump, says Resolution Foundation's latest analysis.
As Scotland scraps the Right to Buy scheme, should England and Wales do the same? Vote in our poll
Margaret Thatcher introduced Right to Buy in 1980 to give council tenants the chance to own their homes
New home registrations in London tumbled ahead of the EU referendum, says NHBC
NHBC says across for the whole of the UK new home registrations are solid, but some regions saw declines
Mortgage approvals down 11% in the month of the EU referendum
BBA lending data shows number of mortgage approvals in June 2016 was 48,973.
London house prices saw fastest growth under Margaret Thatcher's government
Stirling Ackroyd research shows biggest boom in London house prices was under Thatcher.
Letting agents: 'The rental market has responded to Brexit in a calm fashion'
Arla survey shows little change to supply of rental homes after Brexit vote on 23 June.
There is a 'Waitrose effect' on house prices which can add 10% to a property's value
Lloyds Bank research shows nearby supermarkets can add thousands to property prices.
UK Housing: Most affordable places for first-time buyers, who have increased 10% since 2015
The UK saw 154,200 first-time home buyers in the first six months of 2016.
What the English Housing Survey's results tell us about the state of the market
DCLG's survey reveals trends and facts about how England's housing market has changed in 20 years.
Will Brexit make UK housing crisis even worse?
UK housebuilders say demand is still strong in housing market amid chronic undersupply of homes
Despite Brexit uncertainty mortgage lenders pumped £20.7bn into UK housing market in June
Council of Mortgage Lenders says it expects market activity to 'soften modestly' as transactions weaken.
House prices rose strongly ahead of Brexit referendum and 'predictions of storm are overblown'
May house-price index from Office for National Statistics shows disparity across UK as London surges forward.
UK housing crisis: Government should build 300,000 homes each year, says Economic Affairs Committee
Report suggests local authorities and housing associations should be given more freedom to build homes.
Property professionals are pessimistic about the outlook for UK house prices after the Brexit vote
Survey in June shows worsening outlook for house prices in the UK as economic uncertainty reigns.
Brexit: Property deals fall through but 'no armageddon' in the housing market
'Business as usual' for many in the housing market after historic vote for Brexit in the EU referendum.