Buy-to-let

Wells Fargo joins LendInvest financing syndicate

LendInvest has announced that Wells Fargo has joined its £200 million financing syndicate with...

L&G: mortgage activity levels fuelled by financial gifting

Legal & General has revealed that first-time buyers are still pursuing their home ownership...

Recognise Bank finances family owned property investment firm

SME specialist Recognise Bank has agreed a £416,000 fixed rate loan solution for a...

Fleet reports annual rental yields up in all regions

Fleet Mortgages has released the latest iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q1...

Q&A: James Gilliam, managing director, Pure Panel Management

BestAdvice fires the questions at James Gillan, managing director at Pure Panel Management BestAdvice (BA):...

Clydesdale Bank adds new product transfer deals amidst range shake-up

Clydesdale Bank has made a number of changes to its product offering. Changes have been...

Family BS refreshes mortgage range

Family Building Society has made a number of changes to its mortgage offering. Five-year fixed...

Zephyr Homeloans makes tracker rate reductions

Zephyr Homeloans has announced reductions of 40 basis points (bps) across its tracker mortgage...

Crystal Specialist Finance reports 26% YOY growth

Crystal Specialist Finance has reported year-on-year completion growth of 26%, with ongoing enquiries up...

Glenhawk unveils EPC incentive

Glenhawk has launched its first sustainability incentive, offering an end-of-term discount for those borrowers...

Molo Finance adds MUFB to product range

Molo Finance has expanded its buy-to-let product suite by launching Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFB),...

Foundation Home Loans reduces buy-to-let and owner-occupier rates

Foundation Home Loans has announced rate reductions of up to 0.75% on selected buy-to-let...

59% of landlords would consider selling up if faced with EPC upgrades

New research from Mortgage Advice Bureau shows that almost two-thirds of landlords would consider...

Keystone Property Finance cuts Classic five-year fixed rates

Keystone Property Finance has reduced its rates on all five-year fixed rate products in...

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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...