Buy-to-let

Karen Rodrigues joins MFS

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has appointed Karen Rodrigues as its new head of national...

Sirius completes £12.4m dev exit deal

Sirius Property Finance has completed a complex £12.4m limited company buy-to-let mortgage to finance...

Paragon Bank closes TBMC

Paragon Bank has confirmed that TBMC, the Cardiff-based mortgage broker business, will be closing...

Hanley Economic BS introduces five-year deals

Hanley Economic Building Society has revised its residential and buy-to-let propositions through the introduction...

Majority of landlords don’t plan to sell any BTL properties

64% of buy-to-let landlords are not planning to sell any of their properties in...

Rise in interest-only mortgage searches

Data from Legal & General’s Ignite platform has shown that there has been an...

Landbay launches new fixed rate limited edition range 

Landbay has unveiled a new limited edition range of 18 standard five-year fixed rate...

Clydesdale Bank unveils new mortgage exclusives

Clydesdale Bank has announced the launch of new mortgage products. The deals are being launched...

Leeds BS selects Apprivo² core banking originations platform

Finova, the cloud-based mortgage and savings software provider, has announced that its Apprivo² core...

Leeds BS launches Limited Company buy-to-let range

Leeds Building Society has launched a new range of buy-to-let mortgages for landlords operating...

First CPSP candidates complete training programme

The Certified Practitioner in Specialist Property Finance (CPSP) programme, launched as a joint initiative...

LendInvest makes buy-to-let rate reductions

LendInvest has launched a new buy-to-let range. New rates start from 5.54%, funded through its...

Virgin Money unveils new exclusive products

Virgin Money has launched a series of new mortgage products. The new deals are as...

Landbay introduces new two-year trackers

Landbay has bolstered its like-for-like remortgage range with the addition of three new two-year...

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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...