Buy-to-let

Investec reduces mortgage rates by up to 0.55%

Investec Bank has announced changes to its residential and buy-to-let tracker range with rate...

Landbay revamps small HMO and MUFB range

Landbay has unveiled new products and rate reductions across its range of small HMO...

HTB provides £20m HMO portfolio refinancing facility

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £20m loan for the refinancing of a...

Foundation Home Loans reprices selected core buy-to-let products

Foundation Home Loans has repriced selected products across its core buy-to-let range to incorporate...

Family BS cuts residential and BTL fixed rates

The Family Building Society has unveiled a new range of reduced price mortgage products. Two-year...

PRS undergoing important structural changes

A survey of over 1,000 landlord clients of the Deposit Protection Service (the DPS)...

Brokers more confident about coming year than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how intermediaries view the market in 2024 and what...

Skipton to cut residential and BTL rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing mortgage rates across its existing customer range. From 9am...

Landbay cuts five-year BTL fixed rates

Landbay has announced further rate reductions across its standard five-year fixed rate product range,...

Over half of landlords still planning longer-term expansion

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has published a new report seeking to gain...

Foundation Home Loans launches new portfolio landlord Specials

Foundation Home Loans has launched new Special products for portfolio landlords in its buy-to-let...

Purchase mortgage searches remain flat

Twenty7tec has published mortgage market statistics for November 2023. It reported that purchase mortgage searches...

Only 7% of landlords plan to sell in 2024

More than a quarter of private landlords in the UK plan to increase the...

Three-quarters of BTL landlords have upped rents in 2023

76% of buy-to-let landlords have increased rent over the past year with the main...

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Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Latest news

CHL cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 25bps

CHL Mortgages has reduced rates across its short-term let and limited edition buy-to-let ranges. The...

Darlington cuts rates across buy-to-let and specialist ranges

Darlington Building Society has reduced mortgage rates by up to 50bps across its buy-to-let,...

HTB backs £2.4m Mitcham scheme

Hampshire Trust Bank has provided a £2.4m development finance facility for a mixed-use scheme in...

The Mansfield reports record mortgage lending for second year running

Mansfield Building Society has reported record mortgage lending for the second successive year, after...