Buy-to-let

Potteries city provides top student accommodation BTL yields

Analysis of buy-to-let mortgage offers in popular student postcodes has revealed Stoke-on-Trent as the...

Significant fall in solar panel installations

The rate of solar panels installations on UK is down by 19% since last...

MFS joins In Partnership panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to In Partnership’s panel of lenders. Founded in 2000,...

Mansfield BS adds new fixed rates to range

Mansfield Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.70% across its fixed rate...

Q&A: Conor McDermott, LHV Bank

BestAdvice fires the questions at Conor McDermott, director of SME Lending at LHV Bank. BestAdvice...

Increasing landlord demand for HMOs is no surprise

Where is the buy-to-let market heading right now? How does the PRS look? Well,...

Fleet Mortgages expands HMO offering and cuts rates

Fleet Mortgages has made a series of new zero and fixed-fee products in its...

ModaMortgages appoints two new BDMs

ModaMortgages has hired Shannon O'Malley and Thomas Churchill as business development managers (BDMs). O’Malley...

LendInvest Mortgages launches new expat BTL deals and cuts rates

LendInvest Mortgages has announces the launch of its new expat buy-to-let mortgage products. The new...

Phoebus partners with OMS Originations

Phoebus, the software provider for mortgage and savings account servicing, has partnered with One...

Buckinghamshire BS cuts rates and makes term changes

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.30 percentage points across its...

Landlord demand for MUFBs on the rise

Latest internal data from Shawbrook has shown that professional landlords are increasingly adding Multi-Unit...

Paragon Bank adds nil-fee two-year fixed rate & discounted SVR products

For the first time in over two years, Paragon Bank has launched a two-year...

Foundation Home Loans launches into Consumer Buy-to-let

Foundation Home Loans has announced that Consumer Buy-to-let (CBTL) mortgages are now accepted as...

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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...