Buy-to-let

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries joins Crystal panel

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has been appointed to Crystal Specialist Finance’s lender panel. The appointment...

Remortgaging landlords still favouring five-year fixed rates

Latest data from Landbay reveals that buy-to-let landlords are continuing to opt for the...

LendInvest Mortgages unveils new BTL rates from 3.69%

LendInvest Mortgages has launched its lowest buy-to-let mortgage rates of the year. Starting from 3.69%,...

ONS reports July rise in house prices and rents

The Office for National Statistics has reported that average UK private rents increased by...

Buy to Let by Foundation cuts all core pricing

Buy to Let by Foundation has announced a full product range reprice including rate...

Sedgwick succeeds Rowntree as Paragon’s mortgages MD

Paragon Bank has announced the appointment of Louisa Sedgwick as managing director of its...

Precise launches mobile app with MagiClick

Precise, part of OSB Group, has launched a mobile app for brokers, following months...

West One joins L&C’s residential and BTL panels

West One Loans has been added to London & Country Mortgages’ (L&C) panel of...

Leeds BS announces rate reductions of up to 30bps

Leeds Building Society has announced reductions to selected fixed rate products. Rates have been reduced...

Virgin Money makes large number of fixed rate mortgage cuts

Virgin Money is making a series of changes to its fixed mortgage rates on...

Record yields and robust tenant demand benefitting landlords

Foundation Home Loans has reported that average rental yields have reached a 10-year high...

Brokers offered real opportunity from unencumbered rental properties

Brightstar Financial has published a video which argues that unencumbered rental properties present a...

Foundation Home Loans launches fee-assisted residential ‘specials’

Foundation Home Loans has reduced rates across its ‘buy-to-let by Foundation’ and ‘Residential by...

CHL Mortgages cuts BTL rates by up to 49bps

CHL Mortgagesis cutting rates by up to 49 basis points (bps) across its buy-to-let...

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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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Private rental sector ‘losing 562 properties a day’

The private rental sector is losing properties at its fastest rate since records began...

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...