Buy-to-let

76% of landlords have raised rents over past year

18% of 10 buy-to-let landlords said they would not raise rents for their tenants...

Many renters putting off their buying plans

With raising rates and high inflation dominating the headlines over the past year, many...

MBE reveals London speakers and seminar programme

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that Rob Elder from the Bank of England...

Keystone Property Finance reduces rates by up to 65bps

Keystone Property Finance, the specialist buy-to-let lender, has reduced rates across its complete range...

InterBay appoints specialist finance account manager

OSB Group has promoted Charlotte Parker to specialist finance account manager (SFAM) for the...

E.surv and Foundation Home Loans agree new valuations deal

E.surv has announced a new valuation services agreement with Paratus AMC (trading as Foundation...

Landbay reduces fixed rate pricing

Specialist buy-to-let lender Landbay has restricted pricing across its fixed rate product range with...

Bridging the EPC gap

As a business, we’ve spent well over 20 years working with brokers to support...

Foundation Home Loans unveils 5-year Limited Edition fix

Foundation Home Loans has launched a brand new five-year, Limited Edition fixed-rate product as...

Lendlord launches property investor digital suite

Lendlord, the platform for property investors and landlords, has launched a suite of new...

Andrea Glasgow becomes specialist mortgage sales director at HTB

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Andrea Glasgow as sales director,...

Bridging for BTL clients

In the current economic climate of rising interest rates and ongoing uncertainty in the...

Paragon adds limited edition five-year deals to offering

Paragon Bank has added limited-edition five-year fixed rate products to its range of buy-to-let...

Virgin Money unveils new two and five-year fixed rates

Virgin Money is launching new residential and buy-to-let mortgage products. The new deals will be...

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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...

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...