Buy-to-let

Vida cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Vida has announced rate reductions across its product range. All buy-to-let rates have been reduced,...

Redwood Bank makes buy-to-let affordability criteria changes

Redwood Bank has introduced changes to the affordability criteria on its lifetime interest-only mortgages,...

Foundation Home Loans refreshes ‘specials’ products

Foundation Home Loans has announced a refresh of its buy-to-let and owner-occupier ‘specials’ product...

HTB appoints head of portfolio management for specialist mortgages

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has appointed Nicola Ledgard as its head of portfolio management...

Virgin Money to cut exclusive rates

Virgin Money is reducing the rates on selected remortgage and purchase exclusives on Tuesday...

West One cuts limited edition fixed rates

West One Loans has reduced rates by up to 100 basis points across its...

A quarter of landlords look for higher-rated EPC properties

Research from Paragon Bank has found that proposed tougher energy efficiency requirements for rental...

Coventry for intermediaries reduces selected rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced two and five-year fixed rates, for residential and buy-to-let...

Brokers become less pessimistic moving into H2

New research from Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how mortgage brokers viewed the market...

Foundation Home Loans cuts rates by up to 85bps

Foundation Home Loans has announced rate reductions of up to 0.85 percentage points on...

Clydesdale Bank unveils new products and cuts fees

Clydesdale Bank has launched a series of new mortgage products. The lender has also announced...

76% of landlords have raised rents over past year

18% of 10 buy-to-let landlords said they would not raise rents for their tenants...

Many renters putting off their buying plans

With raising rates and high inflation dominating the headlines over the past year, many...

MBE reveals London speakers and seminar programme

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that Rob Elder from the Bank of England...

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Portfolio landlords reshape buy-to-let market

Portfolio landlords are becoming increasingly central to the buy-to-let market as investors take a more structured approach to property ownership. The market has seen a...

Supporting complex cases in a modern mortgage market

In today’s diverse mortgage landscape, brokers are working with a growing number of clients whose circumstances fall outside traditional lending models. From self-employed professionals...

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...

The 4.3 million borrowers your pipeline is probably missing

There are 4.3 million self-employed workers in the UK and nearly one in five self-employed workers plans to buy a property in the next...

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...

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Fleet Mortgages names new managing director

Fleet Mortgages has appointed Nicola Richardson as its new managing director. Richardson (pictured) has been...

The Monmouthshire goes live with Phoebus mortgage servicing system

Monmouthshire Building Society has gone live with Phoebus to support mortgage account servicing as...

NatWest completes first PEXA remortgage in two working days

NatWest has completed its first remortgage transaction through PEXA’s digital property completion platform within...

Ceta launches renewal hub for intermediaries on Infinity Portal

Ceta has launched a new Renewal Hub on its Infinity Portal, giving intermediaries a...