Buy-to-let

Buckinghamshire BS cuts rates across whole range

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.20 percentage points across a...

NatWest revises buy-to-let new business range

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has announced a series of changes to its buy-to-let-offering. The rate changes...

Hodge changes specialist mortgage criteria

Hodge has increased the first death stress on its 50+ product and enhanced criteria...

Paragon simplifies BTL deals and updates intermediary website

Paragon Bank has revised and simplified its buy-to-let mortgages offering, removing the differentiation between...

Skipton International now on Mortgage Brain platforms

Mortgage Brain has welcomed Skipton International to its Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain platforms. The...

CHL Mortgages unveils limited edition buy-to-let mortgage range

CHL Mortgages has introduced a limited edition range of two-year fixed products. The new...

Buy to Let by Foundation launches new Limited Edition five-year fix

Buy to Let by Foundation has launched a new Limited Edition, five-year fixed-rate product. ...

Fixed mortgage search long-term monthly average up significantly

Twenty7tec has published mortgage market statistics for May 2024, from activity on its platform. Purchase...

MFS cuts rates and unveils Bridge Fusion

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has launched a new ‘Bridge Fusion’ product, a hybrid of...

Phoebus migrates second Keystone portfolio onto platform

Keystone Property Finance has migrated a second portfolio onto the Phoebus servicing platform. The...

Increase in landlord appetite for portfolio expansion

44% of landlords intend to buy property in the next 12 months, according to...

Landlords increasingly investing in semi-commercial properties

Landlords are increasingly moving towards semi-commercial property, with applications almost doubling in 2024 compared...

MBE London and FIBA Summit programmes published

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has issued the programme for this year’s MBE London event. The...

Quarter of renters consider moving back to family home

23% of 21–34-year-olds who rent privately regularly consider moving back into their family home,...

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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...