Buy-to-let

Landbay appoints new regional account manager

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

Monthly GetGround incorporations rise 2.5 times in 12 months

GetGround, the buy-to-let company creation and management platform, has reported a 2.5x increase in...

Will this ‘new’ government be any different?

This is an undoubtedly important moment in the future trajectory of the UK housing...

HMOs – the answer to an over-stretched rental market?

The UK private rental sector (PRS) is going from strength to strength, with demand...

Virgin Money ups select Core residential and buy-to-let rates

Virgin Money is making a series of changes to selected mortgage products. The changes will...

Chine Financial completes tricky case for Comfortable Consolidator

Chine Financial has completed a hard to place case for a Comfortable Consolidator with...

Landbay simplifies term tracker range and lowers rates

Landbay has revamped its term tracker range of buy-to-let mortgages with rate reductions and...

Stonebridge adds Connect for Intermediaries to referral and packaging panels

Stonebridge, the mortgage and insurance network, has added Connect for Intermediaries to both its...

Foundation Home Loans introduces Special Edition green BTL two-year discounts

Foundation Home Loans has extended its ABC+ Green mortgage range with the addition of...

LendInvest opens new Glasgow office

LendInvest has opened a new office in Scotland to meet increasing demand for property...

Busy beginning to August for mortgage activity

Twenty7Tec has issued its findings based on its mortgage platform data for August 2022. The...

Smaller university locations lead student rental yield table

Paragon Bank has revealed the locations where landlords letting to students can achieve the...

Q&A: Caroline Mirakian, sales director, second charge mortgages, Pepper Money

BestAdvice fires the questions at Caroline Mirakian, sales director, second charge mortgages, Pepper Money. BestAdvice...

Virgin Money ups Core and Product transfer rates

Virgin Money is making some changes to a number of products tonight (1 September). 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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Buy-to-let returns beat major asset classes over 30 years, Hamptons finds

UK buy-to-let has delivered total returns of 2,130% since the launch of the first...

£5m-plus mortgage numbers rise as wealthy buyers turn to borrowing

The number of residential mortgages worth £5 million or more rose last year as...

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...