Buy-to-let

Keystone Property Finance unveils new product offering

Keystone Property Finance has unveiled a package of measures to assist borrowers and help...

Virgin Money pulls all mortgages for new customers

Virgin Money has decided to temporarily withdraw all its products for new customers at...

GetGround launches property investment service

GetGround has announced the launch of GetProperty, a property investment service created to support...

Landbay partners with 2plan wealth management

Landbay has launched a partnership with wealth management firm 2plan, whose financial advisers with...

Assetz Capital appoints Midlands based ‘originator’

Assetz Capital has expanded its origination team with the appointment of experienced finance professional...

The Scottish government’s rental freeze is a wrong move

This is an important time for the buy-to-let market and the wider private rental...

First 4 Bridging rebrands to Envelop

Packager First 4 Bridging (F4B) and the F4B Network have revealed a full rebranding...

Landbay cuts two-year buy-to-let rates

Landbay is lowering interest rates on its two-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages. This will apply to...

Majority of landlords supporting tenants with rising cost of living

75% of residential landlords have taken steps to support tenants during the current cost-of-living...

Clydesdale Bank unveils further rate rises

Clydesdale Bank has announced changes to a selection of mortgage products. The changes took place...

Buy-to-let losing its appeal, say retail investors

The majority of retail investors in the UK believe buy-to-let investments have become far less...

Fleet unveils new 65% LTV and green mortgage deals

Fleet Mortgages has launched new buy-to-let Green Mortgages and reintroduced 65% LTV products across...

Zephyr Homeloans funds 58-property BTL refinance

Zephyr Homeloans has funded a £13m portfolio landlord refinance, which is one of the...

Landbay appoints new regional account manager

Landbay has appointed Paula Dowson to the role of regional account manager for the...

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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...