Buy-to-let

West One Loans reprices mortgage range

West One Loans has announced changes to its mortgage range with significant pricing reductions...

Twenty7tec adds Cumberland BS to SOURCE

Twenty7tec has announced the addition of the Cumberland Building Society to its SOURCE module. The...

Offering landlords that bit extra

I’m sure that those firms operating in the intermediary market with a strong landlord...

Paragon Bank makes BTL fixed rate reductions

Paragon Bank has lowered rates by up to 40bps on 13 fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages,...

LendInvest Mortgages unveils new buy-to-let range

LendInvest Mortgages has launched a new buy-to-let product suite with reductions and larger loan...

Paul Brett to exit Landbay

Paul Brett, managing director of intermediaries, is to leave the business to set up...

Foundation Home Loans cuts BTL Limited Edition rates

Foundation Home Loans has reduced rates on a number of buy-to-let Limited Edition products...

Majority of landlords agree with EPC proposal scrapping

Unsurprisingly, 74% of landlords welcome the government’s decision to scrap the proposal that all...

SimplyBiz Mortgages adds MFS to lender panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has added Market Financial Solutions (MFS) to its lender panel. MFS is...

Foundation Home Loans opens up BTL F2 Extra distribution

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new Extra range of products within its F2...

Aldermore launches new buy-to-let and residential mortgage deals

Aldermore has announced the launch of new buy-to-let and residential owner-occupied products. The new buy-to-let...

Landlord confidence recovered sharply in Q3

Paragon Bank has found that landlord confidence rebounded strongly in the third quarter of...

TML helps across multiple refinancing deals worth £6.5m

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has helped refinance four separate property deals worth £6.5 million. Across...

Landbay cuts two and five-year fixed products

Landbay has announced further rate reductions across its two-year and five-year fixed rate products. Rates...

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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...