Second Home is your dedicated category for exploring vacation homes, lifestyle properties, and investment opportunities in top domestic and international destinations. Whether you’re looking for a beachside villa, a mountain retreat, or a city apartment, this is the place to discover your perfect home away from home.
Owning a property can offer both personal enjoyment and long-term financial benefits. From sun-soaked Mediterranean coasts to tranquil countryside escapes, this type of accents are ideal for family holidays, rental income, or future relocation.
Browse exclusive listings, get expert tips on buying second home abroad, and stay informed about legal, tax, and financing considerations. Your next escape – or smart investment – starts here.
Buy-to-let lender Keystone Property Finance has unveiled a buy-to-let mortgage range with a 7% arrangement fee to help investors pass affordability requirements. There are 5-year Standard products at both 65%…
Colife is the international rental, purchase and property management company With the Dubai property market set to grow steadily in 2024–2025, investors are actively looking for the most profitable rental…
Mortgage intermediaries are very confident in the state of their own business, signaling that most are confident in the thriving nature of the mortgage market. Some 98% felt ‘very confident’…
Housing secretary Angela Rayner wants smaller housebuilders to pick up more of the slack when it comes to building homes. Speaking at a visit to an Oxfordshire site in Didcot,…
Letting platform Goodlord has updated its Rent Protection and Legal Expense Insurance product, which it said it designed to help agents and landlords prepare for the Renters’ Rights Bill. From…
The government will train up 120,000 workers with the help of 30,000 apprenticeships over the course of the parliament. With the help of a £3 billion apprenticeship budget the government…
HMO approvals dropped past year, suggesting that tighter licensing rules are hampering the sector. The number of approvals dropped by -5.9% in 2024, which saw 25,445 new licences issued, a…
The number of agreed property sales in May reached its highest rate in four years, Zoopla’s house price index has revealed. There’s been a 13% year-on-year increase in homes for…
There are more homes available for purchase in the south of England, Zoopla data shows. There are 21% more homes for sale in the South West compared to this time…
Estate agency trade body Propertymark has called for EPC ratings to be conducted on a ‘property-by-property’ basis. That means taking varying property types into consideration, and acknowledging that homes in…