Buy-to-let

Paragon reveals most affordable places to rent a home

Paragon’s latest Rental Affordability Index has found that Copeland in Cumbria is England’s most...

Bluestone opens up Right to Buy availability

Bluestone Mortgages has announced a rate reduction across its product range and has brought...

Landbay rebrands and unveils new broker portal

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has launched a new broker portal and introduced a new brand. It...

Q&A: Andy Valvona, national accounts manager, CHL Mortgages

BestAdvice fires the questions at Andy Valvona, national accounts manager at CHL Mortgages. BestAdvice (BA):...

LendInvest agrees charity partnership with Mind

LendInvest has announced that mental health charity, Mind, has been selected as its new...

Legal & General Mortgage Club adds Lendco to lender panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has welcomed Lendco to its lender panel. Lendco is an...

Monument appoints lending relationship manager

Monument has added to its lending team with the recruitment of Craig Middleton. Middleton, who...

Shawbrook offers arrangement fee discount for energy efficiency

Shawbrook will offer new buy-to-let mortgage customers an Energy Efficiency Discount, or partial refund,...

Virgin Money unveils new exclusive fixed rates

Virgin Money is adding new products to its range tomorrow (Tuesday 10 May). The products...

Newcastle Intermediaries removes BTL minimum income requirement

Newcastle Intermediaries has removed the minimum income criteria on its buy-to-let mortgage products in...

Leeds BS cuts buy-to-let stress rate

Leeds Building Society has reduced its stress rate on buy-to-let fixed rate deals for...

West One cuts buy-to-let lifetime tracker rates

West One Loans is cutting rates on its buy-to-let lifetime tracker product range. The largest...

Central Trust improves CBTL & residential offerings

Central Trust has made improvements to its residential and Consumer Buy-to-let (CBTL) mortgage propositions,...

Catalyst introduces specialist buy-to-let mortgage

Catalyst has moved into the buy-to-let market with ‘BOOST to let’. The product is a...

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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...