Buy-to-let

Family BS cuts residential and BTL fixed rates

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

PRS undergoing important structural changes

A survey of over 1,000 landlord clients of the Deposit Protection Service (the DPS)...

Brokers more confident about coming year than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how intermediaries view the market in 2024 and what...

Skipton to cut residential and BTL rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing mortgage rates across its existing customer range. From 9am...

Landbay cuts five-year BTL fixed rates

Landbay has announced further rate reductions across its standard five-year fixed rate product range,...

Over half of landlords still planning longer-term expansion

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has published a new report seeking to gain...

Foundation Home Loans launches new portfolio landlord Specials

Foundation Home Loans has launched new Special products for portfolio landlords in its buy-to-let...

Purchase mortgage searches remain flat

Twenty7tec has published mortgage market statistics for November 2023. It reported that purchase mortgage searches...

Only 7% of landlords plan to sell in 2024

More than a quarter of private landlords in the UK plan to increase the...

Three-quarters of BTL landlords have upped rents in 2023

76% of buy-to-let landlords have increased rent over the past year with the main...

HTB appoints East Anglia BDM

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has appointed Mark Newman as a business development manager (BDM)...

Kensington updates residential and BTL rates

Kensington Mortgages has announced a number of rate updates to its buy-to-let and residential...

MFS joins Mortgage Advice Bureau panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has joined Mortgage Advice Bureau’s (MAB) panel of lenders, with...

MPowered Mortgages joins Openwork Partnership lender panel

The Openwork Partnership has announced the addition of MPowered Mortgages to its lender panel. Its...

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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...