Buy-to-let

Shawbrook completes £11.5m buy-to-let mortgage

Shawbrook Bank, in conjunction with Strategic Partner Coreco Commercial, has supported a customer with...

Hodge reports 173% rise in holiday let mortgages applications

Specialist lender Hodge has seen a 173% increase in the number of holiday let...

Paragon unveils new five-year portfolio fixed rates

Paragon Bank is adding four new five-year fixed rate mortgages to its buy-to-let portfolio...

Pepper improves buy-to-let criteria

Pepper Money has made changes to its buy-to-let criteria, including reducing minimum income requirements...

Zephyr Homeloans cuts buy-to-let rates

Zephyr Homeloans has reduced rates across its buy-to-let mortgage offering. It is offering 2.84%...

MPowered Mortgages makes fixed rate reductions

MPowered Mortgages has revamped its product range with rate reductions across several of its...

Fleet’s 2021 origination up 96% on previous year

Fleet Mortgages completed £782m of lending during the 2021 calendar year, posting a pre-tax...

Second charges helping businesses to capital raise

Business owners are using second charge mortgages to raise capital as the Omicron variant...

Suffolk BS adds Airbnb to holiday let criteria

Suffolk Building Society has updated its holiday let mortgage criteria and will now consider...

Specialist quartet join Openwork lender panel

The Openwork Partnership has added four specialist residential and buy-to-let lenders to its mortgage panel. The...

Landbay attains carbon neutral status

Landbay has been officially certified as a Carbon Neutral Business for the offsetting of...

Mansfield BS launches new limited company product range 

Mansfield Building Society has reduced rates and simplified its buy-to-let mortgage range with four...

Metro Bank increases maximum BTL loan size

Metro Bank is looking to increase its buy-to-let lending and has made positive changes...

Fleet Mortgages unveils rates cuts

Fleet Mortgages has made a number of price reductions across all three of its...

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The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

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Brilliant racks up a memorable afternoon for charity

Brilliant Solutions was on cue at Rileys as 70 players and several late arrivals...

Rayner rules out rent controls

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has ruled out rent controls in England, providing greater certainty...

Mortgage Brain adds Uinsure home insurance quotes to CRM platform

Mortgage Brain has integrated Uinsure with CRM Brain, allowing brokers to arrange buildings and...

Nationwide and Accord the latest to increase rates

Mortgage borrowers have been urged to review their options after Nationwide and Accord increased...