Buy-to-let

Fleet Mortgages reduces all five-year rates

Fleet Mortgages has cut rates on all five-year fixes across its three core ranges:...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts buy-to-let rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates across its buy-to-let range by up to 0.46 percentage...

Paragon launches its lowest BTL fixed rate in over a year

Paragon Bank has launched a 4.69% five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgage, its lowest rate for...

HTB appoints City of London BDM

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Serena Grewal as business development...

Louisa Sedgwick bolsters role at Paragon following restructure

Paragon Bank has announced a restructure of its buy-to-let mortgages sales function to improve...

CHL Mortgages unveils new two and five-year rates

CHL Mortgages has reduced fixed rates across all product ranges. Individual and Limited Company five-year...

The Mortgage Lender launches two new BTL deals

The Mortgage Lender has introduced two new buy-to-let products. The lender’s new products include a...

Keystone Property Finance cuts rates by up to 40bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced its rates by up to 0.40 basis points with...

Envelop reports longer-term specialist business uplift from rebrand

Envelop has reported a "substantial" uplift in the amount of longer-term specialist business written...

Landbay reduces two and five-year fixed rates

Specialist buy-to-let lender Landbay has made further reductions across its range of two and...

Precise Mortgages lowers assessment and stress rates

Precise Mortgages has simplified the minimum ICR for personal ownership applications and improved how...

The Co-operative Bank rebrands Platform

Platform, the intermediary lender of The Co-operative Bank, has been rebranded to become The...

80% of landlords says they were prepared for EPC proposals

UK landlords say they were in the main prepared for the government’s proposed Energy...

Fleet Mortgages cuts two and five-year fixed rates

Fleet Mortgages has reduced rates on all two and five-year fixes, as well as...

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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...