Bank of England June 18 2026: What the MPC Vote Means for BTL Rates
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee meets on Thursday 18 June. Four days from now, nine people will vote on whether to hold Bank Rate at 3.75% or raise it.
Read articleZoopla June 2026: Cheap Areas Surge, Big Cities Stall
Zoopla published its June 2026 Rental Market Report this week. The national headline is positive: UK average new let rent at £1,321 per month, up 2.1% year on year.
Read articleRICS May 2026: Rental Supply Crunch & What It Means for BTL
Six weeks into the post-Section 21 world, RICS has published its May 2026 UK Residential Market Survey, the first dataset covering a full month under the Renters' Rights Act.
Read articleUK Housing Shortfall 2026: The Supply Case for Buy-to-Let
The government's 1.5 million new homes target gets repeated so often that most people have stopped checking the delivery numbers against it.
Read articleSavills Cuts UK House Prices Forecast 2026: BTL Analysis
Savills published a revised house price forecast on 1 June. The headline: UK house prices down 2% for 2026, a full four-point reversal from the +2% they were projecting in January.
Read articleUK House Prices Fall in May 2026: What BTL Investors Should Know
Nationwide published its May 2026 House Price Index on 4 June. UK house prices fell 0.6% month on month, seasonally adjusted. The annual rate is still positive at 1.7%, but softer than readings from earlier in the year.
Read article220,000 PRS Exits in 2026: The Professional Landlord Opportunity
Around 220,000 rental homes are leaving the private rented sector in England this year. That is Pepper Money's April 2026 projection: roughly 5% of all PRS stock removed in a single year.
Read articleBTL Lenders Are Cutting Rates Again: The June 18 Window
Six buy-to-let lenders cut their fixed rates in the final week of May 2026. Keystone Property Finance trimmed by 15 basis points, taking standard products to 3.44% at 70% LTV.
Read articleBTL Remortgage Shock 2026: What Landlords Face at Renewal
Landlords who took out five-year BTL fixed rates in 2021 are rolling off those deals right now. Bank Rate that year was 0.1% and a limited company five-year fix was available from around 1.5% to 2.2%.
Read articleHouse Price Divide 2026: North Rises While London Falls
Rightmove published their May 2026 House Price Index on 18 May. The national headline is a 1.2% monthly rise to an average asking price of £378,304. Decent enough.
Read articleBTL Mortgage Whiplash: Why Lenders Are Cutting And Pulling The Same Week
Same week, same market, two opposite moves. Santander chopped buy-to-let pricing by up to 50 basis points on Monday, then a chunk of fixed deals got yanked across the market 48 hours later when swap rates jumped again.
Read articleUK Rents Just Stalled: What It Means For Buy-To-Let Yields In 2026
UK rents just did something they haven't done in nine years. They stopped going up. Rightmove's Q1 numbers landed and the line went flat at £1,370 a month outside London. Nine years of one-way traffic. Over.
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