Buy-to-let

CSF sees record growth in first three months of 2024

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has recorded its best start to a year as it...

Quantum Mortgages welcomes L&C Mortgages to panel

Quantum Mortgages, the specialist buy-to-let lender, has announced the addition of L&C Mortgages to...

MFS adds title insurance across product ranges

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has introduced title insurance across a series of its residential...

What could move the ‘landlord activity’ dial?

Importantly, as we move through the Spring months, there are plenty of positive indications...

Coventry for intermediaries to pay proc fees for further advances

Coventry for intermediaries is now paying business procuration fees on all completed further advances....

Buy to Let by Foundation adds new ‘pound-for-pound’ remortgage products

Buy to Let by Foundation has introduced a new group of products, the buy-to-let...

UTB Mortgages to lend on new builds

United Trust Bank Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its proposition to include new build...

ONS reports house prices are stabilising

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has estimated that average UK house prices decreased...

Shawbrook announces complex BTL price reductions

Shawbrook has made a series of reductions across its complex and limited edition buy-to-let...

Average tenancy length in England and Wales up by 218 days

The Deposit Protection Service (DPS) has revealed that renters are typically staying in their...

CHL Mortgages expands product offering

CHL Mortgages has added to its existing product range, introducing a 3.5% product fee...

Portfolio landlords continue with green upgrades

37% of portfolio landlords are continuing to upgrade their properties to EPC C or...

Foundation Home Loans secures new £1.25bn funding line

Foundation Home Loans has secured a new £1.25 billion funding line to continue offering...

HTB revamps property division leadership teams

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has made two senior appointments within its property division. Alex Upton...

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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...