The Latest Breaking News from Hamptons

Landlords are back in the buy-to-let market, buying more homes than they are selling for the first time since 2016

Can you beat London’s red-hot rental market?

Driven by a lack of available homes on the market, the share of homes sold off-plan rose for the first time since 2016, with Cotswolds, Southwark and Hackney among the hotspots

Some 37% of new homes sold in England and Wales found a buyer before completion, up from 35% in 2020, Hamptons said.

Tenants in the South East of England spent the highest proportion of their post-tax income on rent and other bills last year

Hamptons expects sums to become 54% of post-tax income for average rented household in Great Britain

The average privately renting household spend 42% of their post-tax income on rent in 2021, rising to 52% when including other bills, Hamptons said.

While more than two million refugees have evacuated Ukraine to escape Russia’s violent assault on troops and civilians alike, a growing number of Ukrainians living in the US are making the opposite journey to return to their homes and fight. Rachel Sharp reports

Town board expected to pass plan that would allow it to limit traffic and noise of airport used by ‘the 1%’