Buy-to-let

Paragon Bank further cuts five-year fixed portfolio rates

Paragon Bank has reduced the price of its limited-edition, five-year fixed rate, 5% fee,...

West One hails July as record month for originations

West One Loans has reported a record month for originations in July. The specialist lender...

LendInvest makes buy-to-let rate cuts 

LendInvest has further reduced rates across its buy-to-let product suite, including lower headline rates...

Vida cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Vida has announced rate reductions across its product range. All buy-to-let rates have been reduced,...

Redwood Bank makes buy-to-let affordability criteria changes

Redwood Bank has introduced changes to the affordability criteria on its lifetime interest-only mortgages,...

Foundation Home Loans refreshes ‘specials’ products

Foundation Home Loans has announced a refresh of its buy-to-let and owner-occupier ‘specials’ product...

HTB appoints head of portfolio management for specialist mortgages

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has appointed Nicola Ledgard as its head of portfolio management...

Virgin Money to cut exclusive rates

Virgin Money is reducing the rates on selected remortgage and purchase exclusives on Tuesday...

West One cuts limited edition fixed rates

West One Loans has reduced rates by up to 100 basis points across its...

A quarter of landlords look for higher-rated EPC properties

Research from Paragon Bank has found that proposed tougher energy efficiency requirements for rental...

Coventry for intermediaries reduces selected rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced two and five-year fixed rates, for residential and buy-to-let...

Brokers become less pessimistic moving into H2

New research from Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how mortgage brokers viewed the market...

Foundation Home Loans cuts rates by up to 85bps

Foundation Home Loans has announced rate reductions of up to 0.85 percentage points on...

Clydesdale Bank unveils new products and cuts fees

Clydesdale Bank has launched a series of new mortgage products. The lender has also announced...

Latest POLL

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

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...