Holiday/short-term let

The Dudley cuts discounted rates and adds new five-year fixes

Dudley Building Society has made reductions of up to 39 basis points (bps) across...

The Cumberland cuts holiday let remortgage fee to £299

The Cumberland for Intermediaries has slashed the remortgage fee on all core holiday let...

Furnished Holiday Let tax changes spark surge in searches

Google searches for "furnished holiday let tax changes" have skyrocketed by 1300% over the...

LendInvest cuts buy-to-let rates

LendInvest Mortgages has announced a rate reduction of up to 25 basis points (bps)...

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries further reduces short-term let rates

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has reduced rates across its short-term lets range by 30...

Loughborough Building Society partners with Finance Advice Club

Loughborough Building Society is expanding its intermediary distribution with its new partnership with Finance...

Market Harborough BS becomes latest mutual to cut SVR

Market Harborough Building Society is lowering its Standard Variable Rate (SVR) by 20 basis...

Suffolk BS reduces pricing on 14 fixed rate products

Suffolk Building Society has introduced rate reductions across its mortgage products following recent market...

Keystone Property Finance cuts all rates by 15bps

Keystone Property Finance has made cuts across all of its buy-to-let rates by 15...

Holiday let market offers opportunities for brokers in 2025

We may be in the middle of a cold and damp British winter, but...

Q&A: Claire Askham, Buckinghamshire Building Society

Mortgage Soup fires the questions at Claire Askham, head of mortgage sales at Buckinghamshire...

HTB adds restricted holiday lets to offering

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has expanded its specialist lending proposition to now include restricted...

TMA lender panel expands with addition of Lendco

TMA has added Lendco to its lender panel. With immediate effect, TMA intermediaries can now...

Keystone Property Finance cuts all rates by 10bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced the rates across its complete product offering by 10...

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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...