Buy-to-let

Skipton BS cuts over 100 mortgage rates

Skipton Building Society will be lowering over 100 mortgage rates across its product range. From...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries improves BTL & residential deals

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has launched new buy-to-let and residential products. The lender, part of...

LendInvest unveils new mortgages business division

LendInvest has created a new business division to serve its residential, buy-to-let and bridging...

Landbay cuts standard five-year fixed rates

Landbay has announced rate reductions to its standard five-year fixed rate products, with a...

Vida improves criteria and product offering

Vida has announced changes to its products and criteria. It has moved to support borrowers...

Annual rental yields up markedly in England & Wales

Fleet Mortgages has published the latest iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q3...

Clever Lending completes £1.9m MUFB deal with HTB

Clever Lending has helped a customer who needed to refinance a Multi Unit Freehold...

MFS joins Dynamo for Intermediaries’ lender panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to Dynamo for Intermediaries’ lender panel. ...

Keystone Property Finance unveils new two-year trackers

Keystone Property Finance has launched a new range of two-year tracker mortgages. These...

First-time buyers leading market activity

Stabilising interest rates are fuelling activity in the mortgage market despite longstanding affordability concerns,...

Is a turning-point just around the corner?

Positive news within the buy-to-let sector has not always been easy to find during...

Leeds BS cuts rates for first-time buyers and landlords

Leeds Building Society has reduced rates on a range of its mortgages products. The cuts...

HTB hires BDM for the Midlands

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Annie Crust as business development...

Roma Finance secures new funding facility with Cambridge BS

Roma Finance has announced a new £120m lending facility with the Cambridge Building Society. The...

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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...