Buy-to-let

Castle Trust completes £5.4m BTL portfolio loan

Castle Trust Bank has completed a portfolio loan secured on 19 buy-to-let properties in...

Longer-term future of buy-to-let market still looking rosy

I’ll be the first to admit that when we ran our latest regular quarterly...

Landbay and Phoenix Group unveil new funding partnership

Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, and long-term savings and retirement business, Phoenix Group, have formed a...

Fleet: rental yields holding up

Fleet Mortgages has released the latest iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q2...

Virgin Money increases Core and Product Transfer rates

Virgin Money has increased selected rates at 8pm tonight (12 July). The changes affect certain...

Octopus Real Estate joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Octopus Real Estate to its lending panel. Member firms of...

Pivotal Growth acquires The Buy to Let Broker

Pivotal Growth Limited has acquired The Buy to Let Broker Limited. The Buy to Let...

Strong growth in middle-aged and later life tenant volumes

The number of middle-age and later life tenants living in privately rented homes has...

Mansfield BS joins TMG panel

Mansfield Building Society has joined The Money Group’s (TMG) lender panel. The new partnership will...

First Welsh Lending Event held

Four of Wales’ lenders joined forces for a three-hour panel event at Principality Stadium...

MT Finance appoints head of buy-to-let lending

MT Finance has appointed Marylen Edwards as head of buy-to-let lending ahead of its upcoming...

West One unveils B2L discount two-year tracker with no early exit fee

West One Loans has launched a new buy-to-let discount two-year tracker that borrowers can...

We have “lift-off” in the green mortgage sector

In June, Twenty7Tec saw a fall in mortgage searches across all mortgage types, based...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts owner-occupied and BTL rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected rates by up to 0.15 percentage points on...

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The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

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Brilliant racks up a memorable afternoon for charity

Brilliant Solutions was on cue at Rileys as 70 players and several late arrivals...

Rayner rules out rent controls

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has ruled out rent controls in England, providing greater certainty...

Mortgage Brain adds Uinsure home insurance quotes to CRM platform

Mortgage Brain has integrated Uinsure with CRM Brain, allowing brokers to arrange buildings and...

Nationwide and Accord the latest to increase rates

Mortgage borrowers have been urged to review their options after Nationwide and Accord increased...