Buy-to-let

Coventry for intermediaries unveils 3.90% fix and other rate cuts

Coventry for intermediaries has launched a new five-year fixed rate at 3.90% and reduced...

Castle Trust completes £1.3m MUFB refinance in nine hours

Castle Trust Bank has completed on a £1.3m refinance loan on a large MUFB...

Intermediaries recover their positivity about the future

Intermediary confidence in the outlook for the mortgage industry has now recovered to its...

MFS joins New Leaf lender panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to New Leaf Distribution’s panel of lenders. ...

The Mortgage Lender reduces its buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has announced further rate reductions across its buy-to-let products and...

Marsden BS launches new holiday let range

Marsden Building Society has unveiled three new fee-free furnished holiday let (FHL) mortgages, with...

Rental yields reach 10-year high

Paragon’s latest PRS Trends Report has revealed that rental yields reported by landlords have...

Quantum Mortgages completes inaugural securitisation

Quantum Mortgages has completed its first public securitisation, two years after launching. The transaction,...

Five new faces at Catalyst

Specialist lender Catalyst has expanded its lending team with five new hires. Appointments have...

UTB Mortgages cuts BTL rates by up to 40bps

United Trust Bank Mortgages for Intermediaries has announced rate cuts of up to 40bps...

Buy to Let by Foundation unveils new Limited Edition products

Buy to Let by Foundation has announced new Limited Edition products, a new fee-assisted...

Fleet Mortgages unveils new two-year fixes

Fleet Mortgages has announced the launch of new two-year, fixed rate fixed-fee products for...

Twenty7Tec searches up 800k year-on-year

Twenty7tec has published its mortgage market statistics for July 2024. The details are as follows: In...

Landlords could benefit from growing market of ‘forever renters’

Like the rest of the housing market, the rental sector has been under increasing...

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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...