Buy-to-let

Zephyr cuts 5-year fixed and tracker rates

Zephyr Homeloans has announced 15 basis points (bps) reductions across its five-year fixed and...

Precise revamps buy-to-let range with lower rates and more adverse options

Precise, part of OSB Group, has made a series of changes within its buy-to-let...

Paragon Bank signs up to Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter

Paragon Bank has signed up to the Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter, a not-for-profit...

Clydesdale announces mortgage rate rises

Clydesdale Bank has announced that it will be increasing rates across a number of...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries unveils residential deals amid wider refresh

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries, part of OSB Group, has refreshed products across its residential,...

46% of investors rely on trade press to inform decisions

Over two in five UK property investors are dependent on the property and finance...

Coventry for intermediaries cuts rates to help first-time buyers

Coventry for intermediaries has lowered certain new business residential rates by up to 22...

Virgin Money launches new Rate Reducer and Fix and Switch rates

Virgin Money is making changes to its mortgage range on Friday 15 March. Changes include...

Precise Mortgages rebrands to Precise

Precise Mortgages has unveiled a new brand image with an updated identity: Precise. New broker...

42% of landlords due to renew mortgage in next 12 months

40% of residential landlords with a mortgage, whether fixed, tracker, or discount, are due...

Landbay cuts rates on small HMO and MUFB products

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has announced it has reduced rates across its standard five-year fixed...

Dudley BS joins TMA panel

TMA Mortgage Club has announced the addition of the Dudley Building Society to its...

Keystone Property Finance adds new specialist and ex-pat products

Keystone Property Finance has expanded its specialist and ex-pat mortgage ranges with new rates...

The Loans Engine joins Paradigm’s referral partner panel

Paradigm has added specialist finance broker, The Loans Engine, to its referral partner panel. ...

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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...