Tower Hamlets revealed as the best London borough for buy-to-let property, with the latest figures showing strong rental yields of 5.9%. Southwark, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Greenwich make up the rest of the top five boroughs, with rental yields well above the London average. The highest-yielding boroughs have some...
SBA Property Management has announced the launch of its premier real estate offering in Dubai. SBA Properties, the sister company of SBA Property Management, will offer a strategic approach to property investment in Dubai and further afield, with a diverse portfolio of properties to cater to distinctive investor needs. From...
London’s brownfield sites hold the key to solving the city’s housing crisis, having the space to accommodate at least 414,273 new homes. Across the capital, brownfield space covers a huge 3,515 hectares – around 25 times the size of Hyde Park. At present, only around half of the city's brownfield...
Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than what tenants pay on rent. The cost of homeownership is highest in inner London, where mortgage costs are 66% higher than rental prices – meaning buyers fork out an extra £1,232 per month....
London’s vacant properties were valued at an estimated £50bn in 2023. Southwark had the highest number of empty homes of any London borough at 5,143. Collectively, the top five boroughs for vacant properties account for a quarter of all empty homes in the capital. Property experts at SBA Property Management...
2023 was the highest year on record for ‘rental scam’ searches in the UK, with an increase of 11% from 2022 to 2023. In 2022 and 2023, there was a total of 5,720 searches for ‘rental scam’ in the UK – a 55% increase from the searches recorded in the...
Searches in London for ‘building inspections’ and ‘building maintenance’ have soared by an average annual rate of around 20% over the last three years. Interest in tenant screening services climbed by an average year-on-year rate of 13% in the capital during the same period. Major works and fire safety compliance...
By Sarah Epton, Health & Safety Compliance Manager at SBA Property Management Landlords, property developers and RMCs working today are subject to an ever-growing list of compliance requirements for building safety. Making sure properties are well maintained in line with the latest regulations can feel like a thankless task –...
By Yehuda Bloom, Property Management Surveyor at SBA Property Management At SBA, simply put, we are big enough to cope but small enough to care. And our uniqueness is within our bespoke approach to client and development management. Since setting up the business, we have refined our way of working...
By Sarah Epton, Health & Safety Compliance Manager at SBA Property Management This year’s ARMA Annual Conference focused on business challenges and opportunities for managing agents following the introduction of the new Building Safety Regulator. Key topics up for discussion among property managers in attendance were building health and safety...