Holiday/short-term let

Stafford Railway BS joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the appointment of Stafford Railway Building Society to its...

Hodge restarts residential mortgage lending

Hodge has re-entered the residential mortgage market for its 50+, RIO and holiday let...

The Nottingham adds holiday let lending to proposition

The Nottingham has expanded its mortgage offering with the introduction of holiday lets lending. It...

Catalyst introduces specialist buy-to-let mortgage

Catalyst has moved into the buy-to-let market with ‘BOOST to let’. The product is a...

CHL Mortgages introduces short-term let offering

CHL Mortgages has entered the short-term let marketplace with the launch of a new...

Over 10m adults thinking of holiday let ownership 

17% of adults in the UK have contemplated buying a holiday let property during...

Mutual moves into holiday let market

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has entered the holiday let lending market. It said it is bringing its...

Younger people lead trend of considering holiday let ownership

17% of UK adults have thought about buying a holiday let property during the...

Brilliant Solutions joins Quantum Mortgages’ panel

Quantum Mortgages has added both the packaging and mortgage club arm of Brilliant Solutions...

Quantum Mortgages to launch with L&G Mortgage Club

Quantum Mortgages partnering with L&G Mortgage Club to launch its first product range into...

Suffolk BS moves into expat holiday let market

Suffolk Building Society has launched a new standalone expat holiday let product, to bolster...

Hodge ups holiday let rental yield LTV criteria

Hodge will now accept 30 weeks' occupancy as a rental yield projection for its...

Broker searches for first-time buyers up by 64% last year

Legal & General has revealed the top search trends that have driven activity in...

Hodge reports 173% rise in holiday let mortgages applications

Specialist lender Hodge has seen a 173% increase in the number of holiday let...

Latest POLL

COMMENT

What is the Protection Claims Charter – and how does it work?

The moment of truth for any insurance product is at point of claim. Insurers have been publishing claims statistics for almost two decades now, highlighting...

Affordability reforms, housing ambition and the uncomfortable PRS truth

Let’s be clear: the FCA’s recent Discussion Paper (DP25/2) isn’t necessarily about buy-to-let lending. At least, not directly. It’s framed as a review of how...

Broker proactivity can ease path back to prime

One of the lessons we’ve taken from the ever rising levels of interest in our near prime range recently is that brokers are seeing...

Self-employment: A career not a complication

There’s a persistent myth in the market that self-employed borrowers are a high-risk, hard-to-place category. But some lenders see things differently. Whether it’s a dentist...

We need to look again at two-year swaps…

Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen three notable things happen in the swaps market and interest rates in general. Firstly and obviously, rates have...

Latest news

Catalyst Property Finance acquired by Foundation’s sister company

Specialist lender Catalyst Property Finance has been acquired by The FHL Group, the sister...

Housing crisis deepens as supply falls and affordability worsens

The UK housing crisis is worsening, with affordability pressures mounting and housing supply stalling,...

Clydesdale Bank eases criteria for self-employed mortgage applicants

Clydesdale Bank is set to introduce a series of changes to its mortgage criteria...

Newcastle trims large loan mortgage rates

Newcastle for Intermediaries has announced rate reductions of up to 0.30% across its large...