Buy-to-let

KRFI doubles maximum number of HMO beds

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has made a series of changes to its buy-to-let product...

Short-term asset lender reveals 3% commission offer

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, is offering brokers 3% commission on loans secured against...

Portfolio landlords remain bullish about prospects

Portfolio landlords remain largely undeterred in expanding their property portfolios, despite the high inflationary...

Zephyr Homeloans adds new two-year fixed rate deal to range

Zephyr Homeloans has announced a new two-year fixed-rate mortgage as well as a 100bps...

Landlord confidence increasing along with tenant demand

New research has found that landlord confidence across a number of different metrics has...

Landbay cuts five-year fixed rates

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has once again reduced rates, this time by up to 0.10...

West One makes BTL rate cuts of up to 40bps

West One Loans has made a number of rate cuts across its range of...

CHL Mortgages cuts buy-to-let fixed rates

Buy-to-let lender CHL Mortgages has reduced its fixed rates by up to 39 basis...

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services adds Bath BS to panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has announced the addition of Bath Building Society to...

Paragon unveils five-year fixed rate cuts

Paragon Bank has cut rates on six five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages, with lower rates...

Foundation Home Loans cuts rates and broadens product options

Foundation Home Loans has made a number of price reductions in both its owner-occupied...

Record proportion of landlords report increase in tenant demand

71% of landlords have reported increasing levels of tenant demand in the third quarter...

Vida unveils five-year buy-to-let fixed rate reductions

Vida has announced rate reductions in its buy-to-let product range. Five-year fixed rates at 75%...

Conveyancing Association expresses relief over King’s Speech

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has said it is ‘relieved’ to see a Leasehold and...

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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...