Holiday/short-term let

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...

Suffolk BS adds Airbnb to holiday let criteria

Suffolk Building Society has updated its holiday let mortgage criteria and will now consider...

Mansfield BS launches new limited company product range 

Mansfield Building Society has reduced rates and simplified its buy-to-let mortgage range with four...

Fleet Mortgages unveils rates cuts

Fleet Mortgages has made a number of price reductions across all three of its...

L&G Mortgage Club unveils exclusive Harpenden holiday let

Adviser members of Legal & General Mortgage Club can now access an exclusive holiday...

Dudley BS ups ex-pat and holiday let maximum loan sizes

Dudley Building Society has increased its maximum loan size on ex-pat mortgages from £1...

Harpenden joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Harpenden Building Society to its lender panel. Paradigm member firms...

Suffolk BS improves criteria to increase case suitability

Suffolk Building Society has made four changes to its lending criteria. The mutual has increased...

Hodge’s holiday let mortgages now from 3.75%

Hodge has unveiled further reductions on its holiday let mortgages, by reducing the five-year...

Specialist buy-to-let research reaps rewards

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has found that thorough research is even more important for...

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The Treasury is casting more floaters than a sewage farm

The problem with having a thoroughly inexperienced Chancellor and a properly ‘woodenheaded’ Prime Minister, is that they are learning the job ‘on the hoof’...

HMOs: market realities, future prospects, and the broker opportunity

The HMO sector remains one of the most dynamic parts of the private rented market, with recent data showing it’s both a significant asset...

Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

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The Treasury is casting more floaters than a sewage farm

The problem with having a thoroughly inexperienced Chancellor and a properly ‘woodenheaded’ Prime Minister,...

Why planning must be part of the asylum debate

At 2pm today the High Court is due to decide on an appeal against...

How planning can help solve the asylum housing crisis

The scale of the asylum housing crisis is stark. According to Reuters, more than...

Limited company landlords take bigger share of buy-to-let market

Landlords holding investment property through limited companies are playing an increasingly prominent role in...