Buy-to-let

Landbay updates Special Edition range

Landbay has updated its five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage range with new lower loan-to-values...

MFS property book surpasses £1.5bn in value

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that it has now secured charges against more...

UTB Mortgages launches new digital process for portfolio landlords

UTB Mortgages for Intermediaries (UTB) has improved its buy-to-let mortgage application journey with the...

Hanley Economic BS introduces quadruple product launch

Hanley Economic Building Society has launched four new mortgage products. The new products include an...

Aspen completes £2.1m bridge-to-let deal

Aspen Bridging has completed a £2.1m bridge-to-let loan within three weeks, despite a last-minute...

Quantum Mortgages improves lending criteria

Quantum Mortgages has improved its criteria for lending in Northern Ireland as well as making...

MFS selects OMS for originations

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has chosen One Mortgage System (OMS) to be its primary...

Airbnb wants banks to update policies on home sharing

Airbnb has called on banks and building societies to update rigid mortgage policies that...

Legal & General adds nine lenders to SmartrFit

Legal & General has revamped its SmartrFit too, featuring new residential and buy-to-let affordability...

Mansfield relaunches two-year fixed rate mortgages

Mansfield Building Society has launched eight fixed rate mortgages, all available over a two-year...

Landbay cuts two-year fixed rate costs and reduces ICR

Landbay is lowering the rates on two-year fixed rate mortgages and reducing its income...

Coventry for Intermediaries adds cashback remortgage deals, reintroduces trackers, and lowers rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has launched cashback remortgage products, following broker demand for additional remortgage...

Clydesdale Bank cuts rates on consumer deals and product transfers

Clydesdale Bank has unveiled new, reduced fixed rates and discounted offset rates. The New rates...

Fleet Mortgages lends over £1.2bn in 2022

Fleet Mortgages completed over £1.2bn of new lending completions during the 2022 calendar 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...