Buy-to-let

Quantum Mortgages launches specialised BTL range

Quantum Mortgages has launched QML Pro, a more specialist range designed to accommodate properties...

Fleet Mortgages unveils new five-year fixes

Fleet Mortgages has launched new five-year fixed-rate mortgages, available across its three core product...

Homeowners want higher taxes on holiday lets and overseas buyers

New research from Market Financial Solutions has found that increasing taxes for overseas buyers...

Vida simplifies credit tiers

Vida has announced changes to its tiering and criteria. There are now just three tiers:...

Saffron BS revamps lending criteria

Saffron Building Society has made major changes to its mortgage lending criteria. The changes being...

Molo adds new large HMO and large MUFB offering

Molo Finance has expanded its buy-to-let product proposition with a new product range for...

Over 40% of BTL landlords plan to buy extra properties

41% of buy-to-let landlords plan to buy more property in the next 12 months,...

Clydesdale Bank unveils new Professional mortgage deals

Clydesdale Bank has launched new Professional range products. The new products are as follows: NEW...

CHL Mortgages reprices 5-year fixed rate products

CHL Mortgages has repriced the five-year fixed rate mortgages across its product ranges. The specialist...

LendInvest secures £500m funding

LendInvest plc has announced a £500 million investment to fund part of its future...

Quantum Mortgages appoints field sales BDM

Gary Dean has become the first field sales business development manager (BDM) at Quantum...

Saffron BS unveils product reprice and relaunch

Saffron Building Society has announced a repriced and relaunched product offering. The Society has repriced...

Landlord uncertainty grows as EPC delays drag on

As reports of landlords selling up continue to filter through, a recent debate in...

Virgin Money ups fixed rates once again

Virgin Money has announced further mortgage rate rises. Selected fixed rates across residential and buy-to-let...

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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...