Buy-to-let

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts owner-occupied and BTL rates

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

Stafford Railway BS joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the appointment of Stafford Railway Building Society to its...

Lendlord integrates with property portal

Property investor platform, Lendlord has launched an integration with property portal, Property.xyz. The integration enhances...

Limited company purchase plans at three-year high

Paragon Bank has revealed that the proportion of landlords who plan to purchase their...

Hodge restarts residential mortgage lending

Hodge has re-entered the residential mortgage market for its 50+, RIO and holiday let...

Castle Trust Bank revamps TermTen

Castle Trust Bank has revamped its TermTen buy-to-let product to provide certainty with rates. The...

Clydesdale Bank increases two and five-year fixed rates

Clydesdale Bank has announced its latest series of mortgage rate increases. The changes are taking...

Intermediaries expect growth fuelled by remortgage activity

Mortgage intermediaries expect remortgage activity to drive business levels over the next year, according...

The Nottingham adds holiday let lending to proposition

The Nottingham has expanded its mortgage offering with the introduction of holiday lets lending. It...

PSL agrees servicing contract with Keystone

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) and Keystone have signed a four-year servicing contract. The agreement will...

Zephyr Homeloans to hold free broker BTL webinar

Zephyr Homeloans is this month hosting a free webinar for brokers on the mortgage...

LendInvest revamps HMO and MUFB criteria

LendInvest has made a number of updates to its buy-to-let lending criteria, including broader...

Pepper Money launches EPC promotion to landlords

Pepper Money has introduced a new offer to help buy-to-let customers understand the energy...

Rest Less Mortgages launches to 50+ market

Rest Less, a digital membership community for people in their 50s and beyond, has...

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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...