Buy-to-let

MFS added to MBT Affordability platform

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has added MFS to its MBT Affordability research platform. MBT Affordability...

TMA Club partners with the Swansea BS

TMA Club has announced a new partnership with Swansea Building Society, giving members of...

Castle Trust completes £5.4m BTL portfolio loan

Castle Trust Bank has completed a portfolio loan secured on 19 buy-to-let properties in...

Longer-term future of buy-to-let market still looking rosy

I’ll be the first to admit that when we ran our latest regular quarterly...

Landbay and Phoenix Group unveil new funding partnership

Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, and long-term savings and retirement business, Phoenix Group, have formed a...

Fleet: rental yields holding up

Fleet Mortgages has released the latest iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q2...

Virgin Money increases Core and Product Transfer rates

Virgin Money has increased selected rates at 8pm tonight (12 July). The changes affect certain...

Octopus Real Estate joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Octopus Real Estate to its lending panel. Member firms of...

Pivotal Growth acquires The Buy to Let Broker

Pivotal Growth Limited has acquired The Buy to Let Broker Limited. The Buy to Let...

Strong growth in middle-aged and later life tenant volumes

The number of middle-age and later life tenants living in privately rented homes has...

Mansfield BS joins TMG panel

Mansfield Building Society has joined The Money Group’s (TMG) lender panel. The new partnership will...

First Welsh Lending Event held

Four of Wales’ lenders joined forces for a three-hour panel event at Principality Stadium...

MT Finance appoints head of buy-to-let lending

MT Finance has appointed Marylen Edwards as head of buy-to-let lending ahead of its upcoming...

West One unveils B2L discount two-year tracker with no early exit fee

West One Loans has launched a new buy-to-let discount two-year tracker that borrowers can...

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The conveyancing power of sales-ready packs

Conveyancing is stressful – and I'm not just talking about the poor customer experience. From a turnaround time of around eight weeks back in...

Cloud is not about where you host technology, it’s about how

When lenders talk about cloud, the discussion often begins – quite reasonably – with control. Where will the data sit? How will resilience be...

AI, mortgages and the human need we can’t ignore

There is lots of talk about technology with cloud-native and artificial intelligence just some of the buzzwords of today’s dinner parties and conferences. There is...

PMI – an advice gap not to be ignored

The latest figures from the ABI show insurers processed a record £4 billion in individual and workplace private medical insurance (PMI) claims in 2024,...

The self-employed boom and why traditional life cover won’t cut it

There’s a shift happening in how people work and how they buy homes - especially for the self-employed and gig economy worker. Flexibility, autonomy and...

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Financial firms warned over gaps in tackling domestic and economic abuse

Financial services firms are failing to ask the right questions about domestic and economic...

Family boosts buy-to-let borrowing by up to 35%

Family Building Society has enhanced its buy-to-let affordability assessment, increasing potential borrowing by up...

Average mortgage payments down £119 year-on-year

The average monthly mortgage payment for a new homebuyer has fallen by £119 over...

Wealthy investors increase exposure to buy-to-let as tax allowances are exhausted

Affluent UK investors are allocating more capital to buy-to-let property once ISA and pension...