Buy-to-let

Dudley BS unveils fixed rate deals

Dudley Building Society has launched a range of two-year fixed rate products. The mutual...

Landlords driving PRS energy efficiency performance

Paragon Bank has established that landlords in the private rented sector have driven a...

Majority of landlords plan to fix when remortgaging

Over three-quarters of landlords expect to opt for a fixed rate deal when it...

Zephyr Homeloans makes five-year fixed rate cuts

Zephyr Homeloans has announced reductions of 30 basis points (bps) across its five-year fixed-rate...

Why the BTL contraction is damaging to FTBs

The borrowing capacity of UK homeowners has reduced significantly over the last year, as...

42% of UK landlords ignorant about EPC changes

Over two fifths of UK landlords are still unaware of the upcoming changes to...

Clydesdale Bank increases select fixed rates

Clydesdale Bank is making a number of change to its mortgage products at 8pm...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts rates and unveils 50% LTV deals

Coventry for Intermediaries has cut selected residential rates by up to 23bps and launched...

Keystone introduces lower-rate larger loan range with 5% arrangement fee

Keystone Property Finance has launched a new range of lower-rate larger loan products with...

Gender pay gap continues to impact women in housing

The London Assembly is urging the London Mayor, Sadiq Kahn, to carry out a...

Fleet Mortgages reintroduces two-year fixes

Fleet Mortgages has brought back its range of two-year fixed-rate products for landlord borrowers,...

£42bn facilitated through 360 Lifecycle in 2022

Adviser CRM platform, 360 Lifecycle, has revealed that it facilitated over £7 billion in...

Quantum joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm, the mortgage, protection and compliance services proposition, has added specialist buy-to-let lender, Quantum...

Q&A: Daniel Yeo, CEO, Specialist Finance Centre

BestAdvice fires the questions at Daniel Yeo, CEO at Specialist Finance Centre BestAdvice (BA): SFC...

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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...