Buy-to-let

Pepper Money launches 2024 Specialist Lending Study

Pepper Money has launched its 2024 Specialist Lending Study at an invitation-only event in...

Market Financial Solutions joins Brilliant Solutions’ panel

Market Financial Solutions has joined Brilliant Solutions’ panel of lenders. The arrangement will provide...

Fleet Mortgages launches pair of two-year EPC A-C fixed rates

Fleet Mortgages has launched a new range of two-year, fixed-rate products for landlord borrowers...

InterBay completes £42.5m portfolio refinance

InterBay has provided financing on a complex refinance deal totalling £42.5m, comprising of 94...

Noble succeeds Mielczarek as Chetwood Financial CEO

Andy Mielczarek is stepping down as CEO of Chetwood Financial, with Paul Noble announced...

Major improvements in mortgage processing times over past two years

High street mortgage lenders have reduced their average application processing time by 30%, from...

Fleet Mortgages welcomes new BDM for North London

Fleet Mortgages has announced the appointment of a new business development manager (BDM) to...

Belmont Green closes third RMBS of 2024

Belmont Green, which trades as Vida Homeloans, has announced its third residential mortgage-backed security...

HTB provides £9.5m towards portfolio restructure

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £9.5 million loan as part of a...

Buy to Let by Foundation cuts core rates by up to 5bps

Buy to Let by Foundation, the buy-to-let brand of specialist lender, Foundation Home Loans,...

MBE outlines London seminar programme

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has published details of the seminar programme for its London...

Family BS cuts BTL rates

Family Building Society has announced a 30 basis point (bps) reduction on its UK...

Fleet Mortgages reintroduces EPC A-C products

Fleet Mortgages has reintroduced its range of products for landlord borrowers seeking to purchase...

Virgin Money makes slew of fixed rate reductions

Virgin Money is making a series of rate reductions to its fixed rate mortgage...

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Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

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CHL Mortgages launches limited edition buy-to-let range and eases criteria

CHL Mortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range alongside a series of criteria...

ModaMortgages launches fee-free limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition range of two-year and five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let products...

Conveyancer decline adds to capacity pressure as exchange times lengthen

The number of solicitors working in residential conveyancing has continued to fall as separate...

Skipton extends Delayed Start mortgage to more home movers

Skipton Building Society has widened access to its Delayed Start Mortgage, allowing more home...