The project will convert an office building with retail units into 21 residential flats.

Belfast room rents have climbed 53% in five years, the steepest increase among the UK’s 20 largest cities.

The society's criteria update covers four new areas: concessionary landlord sales, ex-local authority flats, housebuilder gifted deposits, and directors' loan repayments as deposit...

The development will add nine homes, increasing the building’s residential count from 13 to 22 units.

Of the 6,500 homes the fund aims to finance, 3,700 are already under construction across sites including Leeds, Sheffield and Liverpool.

Competition for rental properties has dropped to 4.8 enquiries per property, down from 6.5 a year ago, the lowest level in six years.

Allsop’s March commercial auction catalogue includes 118 lots with guide prices ranging from £25,000 to £3.25m.

The UK private rented sector has lost £79bn in value since 2022, the only housing tenure to have contracted over that period.

Agents in Nottingham manage around 35 listings per branch, more than double the national average.

HMO and MUFB borrowers can secure five-year fixed rates of 5.49% through the relaunched range.