Buy-to-let

Buy-to-let loan sizes recover

Loan sizes offered to buy-to-let borrowers have bounced back following the market contraction last...

West One adds Brilliant Solutions to residential panel

West One Loans has added Brilliant Solutions to its residential intermediary panel. Brilliant Solutions is...

Suffolk BS makes expat and BTL lending improvements

Suffolk Building Society has made a number of product and criteria changes to help...

Landbay reintroduces first-time landlord products

Landbay has cut rates for buy-to-let loans on houses in multiple occupation (HMO) and...

Government should support the PRS

Last year, when Britain announced its third Prime Minister within the space of a...

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

Foundation Home Loans has made further price reductions across its owner-occupier and buy-to-let product...

More support for landlords needed as tenants seek energy efficiency improvements

21% of tenants have spoken to their landlords about making energy efficiency improvements to...

Majority of landlords plan rent rise when remortgaging

68% of landlords plan to raise rents if their mortgage rate goes up when...

Buckinghamshire BS expands Platinum Programme

Buckinghamshire Building Society has unveiled two new partners for its exclusive Platinum Programme. HHH,...

Investec joins Connect’s lender panel

Connect for Intermediaries has announced that Investec will be joining its panel of approved...

Pure Panel Management becomes Paragon’s valuation partner

Pure Panel Management and Paragon Bank have announced entering into an agreement which will...

TMA Club partners with 3mc

TMA Club has announced the addition of a new partner, 3mc, to its packager...

Foundation Home Loans gains Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award

Foundation Home Loans has been awarded the Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award, an independent...

MFS joins finova panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has announced its partnership with finova Payment and Mortgage Services,...

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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...