Buy-to-let

TMA Club partners with the Swansea BS

TMA Club has announced a new partnership with Swansea Building Society, giving members of...

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...

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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...