Buy-to-let

Keystone Property Finance improves broker portal

Keystone Property Finance has made changes to its broker portal to make it easier...

West One Loans eases BTL stress test requirements

West One Loans’ buy-to-let division has cut rates by up to 70 basis points...

Coventry for intermediaries cuts all fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced all fixed rates, with lowered options available for new...

Landbay revamps five-year fixed rate product range

Landbay has announced a major rate reduction across its entire standard five-year fixed rate...

Paragon makes criteria changes and rate reductions

Paragon Bank has reduced rates on five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages by up to 70bps,...

Chetwood Financial appoints COO

Chetwood Financial has announced Julian Hynd as its new chief operating officer (COO). Hynd...

Brokers more optimistic about year ahead than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has surveyed over 10,000 brokers for the second year running and...

MFS cuts residential bridging and BTL rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has cut rates across its residential bridging and buy-to-let mortgage...

Foundation Home Loans unveils limited edition 5-year BTL fix

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new limited edition five-year fixed rate buy-to-let product. ...

Clydesdale Bank cuts pricing on select BTL and residential products

Clydesdale Bank is to reduce the pricing on selected mortgage products on Friday 5...

Shawbrook changes BTL offering to provide more options to landlords

Shawbrook has expanded its buy-to-let mortgage offering in order to provide more support to...

Keystone Property Finance cuts rates and updates arrangement fee offering

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates across its product ranges and now offers standard...

Fleet Mortgages reduces rates on all fixes

Fleet Mortgages has cut rates on all two, five and seven-year fixes across its...

Hodge cuts mortgage rates by up to 80bps

Hodge has reduced rates across its entire mortgage range and retention products are also...

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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...

Latest news

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...