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700 rental homes ‘hit the market every day’ as British landlords sell upAs tenants’ rights reforms come into force, research finds more landlords are stepping back from the sectorThe number of rental homes on the market has risen by almost 30 per cent in the past two years © Hollie Adams/BloombergRising numbers of Britain’s landlords are putting their properties up for sale as a result of increasing regulatory and tax pressures, new research suggests. Some 254,000 buy-to-let properties in Great Britain came on to the open market in the 12 months to the end of March, according to calculations by estate agent Savills. This equates to just under 700 homes placed on the market every day. The March figure was 9 per cent above the level in the year to March 2025 and 28 per cent above the same period in 2024. The data comes as the Renters Rights Act takes effect on Friday, granting new rights to tenants, including greater powers to challenge landlords and lower initial costs to renting. The legislation limits landlords’ ability to remove tenants by abolishing “no-fault evictions”, and ends fixed-term tenancies, replacing them with periodic agreements that renew automatically every month. Lucian Cook, head of residential research at Savills, said: “For many landlords, the Renters Rights Act has become a clear moment in time to reassess their investment.”He added that the reforms had coincided with a bulge in the number of expiring fixed-term mortgages requiring refinancing — in most cases likely to be at higher rates — as well as prospective requirements to meet higher minimum energy efficiency standards at a cost to the landlord. “Taken together, these factors are prompting a more fundamental review of whether holding rental property continues to stack up for smaller landlords with mortgage finance,” he said.The research looked at homes that appeared for sale online, whether or not they were sold. But it found that just 14 per cent of those properties that did sell were bought by other landlords and returned to the rental market. Savills said its agents had reported a preponderance of large-portfolio landlords among those buyers. “So, this is not just about a shrinking pool of rental stock. It is also about a restructuring of the market towards more professional landlords,” said Nicholas Gibson, research analyst at Savills. Official figures in December 2025 found that landlords with limited company ownership were most likely to want to add to their portfolios. Just over one-quarter of these corporate landlords planned to buy more homes to let out, compared with between 2 and 10 per cent for other types of landlords, according to the English Private Landlord Survey. London has a much higher proportion of rented housing than elsewhere in the country. This was reflected in Savills’ figures. Of all new instructions in the year to March — including owner-occupied housing — 30 per cent were rental properties in the capital, compared with 13 per cent across the rest of Great Britain. Tenant advocacy groups welcomed the dawn of the new rules, saying the laws would increase renters’ security of tenure and give them the means to stand up to criminal landlords.Ben Twomey, chief executive of Generation Rent, which represents private tenants, said the abolition of Section 21 — the rule allowing “no-fault” evictions — was a vital step in rebalancing power between renters and landlords. “For decades, Section 21 evictions forced renters to live in fear of being turfed out of our homes, preventing us from raising valid concerns with our landlords. At last, this outdated and unfair law has been sent packing.” The group urged renters to familiarise themselves with their new rights and how to enforce them. Separate research by property site Rightmove this week found over one-third of renters (35 per cent) aged 18 to 35 were “not confident in their understanding of their rights”. Others raised concerns over the impact of the new laws on landlords’ willingness to remain in the sector. Jonathan Stinton, head of mortgage relations at Coventry Building Society, said the move to open-ended tenancies added a new layer of complexity to landlords’ increasing regulatory burden.“If reforms make it harder for good landlords to stay in the market, the risk is fewer homes to rent — and that ultimately drives rents higher for tenants. With the right support and a balanced approach, responsible landlords can adapt. But the rental market only works if there are enough good landlords willing to stay in it,” he said.
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El Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) ha desarrollado el microchip de código abierto más avanzado de Europa. Se trata de un chip diminuto, cuyos transistores apenas miden 1,8 nanómetros. Este microchip es capaz de procesar la información de manera muy veloz y consumir menos energía que los chips que están más extendidos en el mercado, cuyos transistores miden entre 4 y 5 nanómetros.“Queremos avanzar hacia la soberanía tecnológica europea y este prototipo supone un gran hito hacia adelante. Es de código abierto y ahora lo ponemos al alcance de cualquier compañía que quiera producirlo a gran escala. Esta tecnología es crucial para los supercomputadores y para los centros de datos especializados en inteligencia artificial (IA)”, afirma Mateo Valero, director del BSC.
Starwood freezes SREIT redemptions as liquidity crunch deepens
¿Esto lo habéis puesto ya?CitarStarwood freezes SREIT redemptions as liquidity crunch deepenshttps://therealdeal.com/national/2026/05/01/starwood-freezes-sreit-redemptions-as-liquidity-crunch-grows/
The physical world strikes backThe Iran war is a reminder that geographic facts rather than digital tech shape our livesAn avatar of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking at an event in New York in October 2022 © BloombergReports indicate that Mark Zuckerberg is losing interest in the metaverse. “Both users must be devastated” is one of the tarter reactions doing the rounds. To remind readers — how telling that I need to — the metaverse is a virtual world in which people interact as graphical representations of themselves: as “avatars”. Who was ever going to choose it over real life, even for an hour, beats me. But the tousle-haired one was so devoted to the idea as to rename Facebook after it in 2021.He can blame the zeitgeist, at least. There was a wider belief around then that physical reality was becoming less important. In Britain, the techno-utopian case for leaving the EU was that territorial distance no longer counted for much. Australia could be as natural a trade partner as Spain. If some good comes of the war in Iran, it is that all such talk will struggle to receive a hearing for a while. To slip into Thiel-ese for a moment, what we are witnessing in the Gulf is the victory of “atoms” rather than “bits”. It is the reassertion of the material world. Geologic forces put fossil fuels in the Middle East and created the aperture now known as the Strait of Hormuz. There is still laughably little that anyone can do to get around these hard facts. And not just these ones. Investors are surprised that quite sporadic attacks on commercial ships and their personnel are enough to stop them. But human beings tend to have just the one body and to feel some attachment to it. “Disrupt” that. The decade is turning out to be an education in the importance of the three-dimensional. Circa 2020, smart people were sure that working via Zoom was as productive as office life (the evidence since the lockdown has become more mixed) and that “soft power” could keep a continent safe. Come to think of it, of all the huge bets that have been made on non-physical projects, the metaverse — which survives in fragmented and humbled form — is far from the most disastrous. The Zuckerberg of Horizon Worlds is a less diminished figure than the Angela Merkel of peace-through-trade and a neglected Bundeswehr.A decade that promised to have us living via avatars now feels all too tangibleLast month, some fund managers were being called in for super-awkward chats with their investors. The markets, which had expected a quick and contained war in Iran, were not positioned for so tenacious an Islamic Republic. Why? The classic inability of the business-minded to “price” fanaticism, or even to accept that such a thing exists, is one reason. But another might be generational. Perhaps a financial cohort that was reared in the digital age just could not fathom how much of life still hinges on immutable geographic facts. For those who missed the Opec crises, there has not been another reminder on that scale for half a century.Well, expect some more. Even this decade’s great breakthrough in the “bit” sphere — AI — has become a quest for (physical) data centres and the (physical) energy that fuels them. In the fight to be the “third” AI power after the US and China, Britain’s edge is its native and imported brainpower. Having attended some expert gatherings — so that you don’t have to, reader — I fear that Canada’s sheer mineral abundance will tell in the end.A month after Facebook became Meta, US intelligence detected a strange build-up of Russian armed personnel on the border with Ukraine. The war that has raged there ever since is about (physical) territory. Russia can afford to keep fighting because of (physical) energy exports. In retrospect, October 2021 might have been the last time that a major entrepreneur could sketch out a post-material future without seeming to have his head in the clouds. A decade that promised to have us living via avatars now feels all too tangible. Look around. In Britain: dawning acceptance of the nation’s inescapable Europeanness. In Germany: not just rearmament but the prospect of conscription. In much of the globe: competition for scarce oil cargo. Bit by bit, so to speak, people are learning to treat the world as a physical object, which is wise, as no other terms were ever on offer.