Buy-to-let

OSB Group pledges £50m to improve BTL energy efficiency

OSB Group has announced a package of targeted measures to support buy-to-let landlords seeking...

Vida cuts residential and BTL fixed rates

Vida has announced reduced the rates on its fixed rate residential and buy-to-let ranges,...

Glenhawk unveils two-year investment product

Glenhawk has launched a new two-year property investment product. It says the product has been...

Advise Wise adds RIO mortgages to sourcing

Advise Wise has introduced Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgages and holiday let plans to...

Landbay reduces pricing on all five-year fixed rates

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has cut rates on all of its five-year fixed rate mortgages...

Coventry for Intermediaries makes further fixed rate cuts 

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced all standard residential two, three and five-year fixed rates...

There are some positives for the PRS

There has been a lot talked about, and written on, the buy-to-let market in...

Precise adds lifetime trackers to limited edition BTL range

Precise Mortgages, part of the OSB Group, has launched new buy-to-let lifetime tracker products,...

Canopy launches renter credit score subscription service

Canopy has launched CanopyGrow, a subscription service designed specifically to help renters grow their credit...

Virgin Money launches new exclusive remortgage deals

Virgin Money has unveiled a selection of new mortgage products today. The changes are as...

BTL loan sizes drop as rates rise

Loan sizes offered to buy-to-let borrowers have plummeted in the last six months. Rising rates...

New mortgage deals from Clydesdale Bank

Clydesdale Bank has made a number of changes to its product range. The changes are...

LRG joins GetGround’s partner network

Leaders Romans Group (LRG), a property services and lettings business, and GetGround, the buy-to-let...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts fixed rates and launches trackers

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced a number of fixed rate residential products. These include two,...

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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...