Buy-to-let

MFS secures £200m funding line

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has secured £200 million of additional institutional funding. This increases a...

Skipton re-enters BTL market and reduces five-year residential rates

Skipton Building Society has re-entered buy-to-let lending and also reduced rates across its five-year residential...

Keystone reintroduces five-year products

Keystone Property Finance has reintroduced a number of five-year fixed rate mortgages to its product...

Recognise Bank funds £1.16m complex multi-property portfolio deal

Recognise Bank has funded the complex purchase of a portfolio of mixed buy-to-let properties...

Mortgage Climate Action Group to host green-focused BTL webinar

The Mortgage Climate Action Group will be hosting a new green-focused buy-to-let webinar for...

Paragon: tenant demand hits all-time high

Research conducted on behalf of Paragon Bank has found that, for the second time...

Coventry for intermediaries launches 65% LTV deals

Coventry for Intermediaries has updated its residential product range with two, three and five-year...

Rental growth exceeds 2% for the second quarter in row

Average UK rents rose by more than 2% for the second quarter in a...

Molo Finance partners with Brilliant Solutions

Molo Finance has partnered with Brilliant Solutions to provide the distributor's directly authorised (DA)...

Larger portfolio landlords most likely to see BTL growth

A webinar poll undertaken by Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has highlighted that larger portfolio...

Vida introduces new fixed rate products

Vida has launched a range of residential and buy-to-let fixed rate products following on...

Brightstar to hold free broker webinars

Brightstar Financial has introduced a series of free webinars to provide brokers with the...

23% growth in Shawbrook loan book

Shawbrook Group has issued its trading update for the three months ended 30 September...

Consistency remains in mortgage searches

Mortgage criteria searches remained consistent from August to September, according to results from Legal...

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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...