Buy-to-let

Roma Finance reveals redemptions record

Roma Finance has reported a record month of redemptions for volume and value in...

IMLA reports Q4 rise in intermediary mortgage volumes

Confidence has returned to the mortgage market, with sentiment improving steadily month by month...

Tapping into semi-commercial opportunities

It has been a tough few years for buy-to-let (BTL) landlords with higher interest...

Paragon unveils new five-year BTL fixes

Paragon Bank has added five-year fixed rate products to its buy-to-let mortgage range. Rates...

Skipton BS cuts over 40 mortgage rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates once again across its mortgage product range. The rate...

Smart Money People reveal firms with highest broker-ranked BDMs

Smart Money People, the financial services review site, has found that InterBay and Landbay...

Newcastle Intermediaries reduces buy-to-let rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has further reduced rates across its buy-to-let proposition by up to 0.30%, and...

Suffolk Building Society cuts selection of fixed rates

Suffolk Building Society has reduced the rates on its 95% loan to value (LTV)...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) adds Quantum Mortgages to panel

Mortgage and protection network, Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA), has announced a new partnership with...

Fixating on those specialist opportunities

I’m sure that we will see a number of twists, turns and shifts in...

Family Building Society cuts rates by up to 65bps

Family Building Society has unveiled a new range of reduced-price mortgage products. Two-year owner occupier...

Shawbrook cuts rates across its real estate product offering

Shawbrook has announced a wide range of rate reductions across its real estate product...

Penrith BS joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm has announced the addition of Penrith Building Society to its lender panel. From...

Saffron BS partners with Brilliant Solutions

Saffron Building Society has formed a new packager relationship with Brilliant Solutions. The distributor will...

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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...