Buy-to-let

The Mortgage Lender hires head of specialist distribution

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has recruited Chris Kirby as head of specialist distribution and...

Paragon appoints new regional sales manager

Paragon Bank has bolstered its buy-to-let mortgage sales team with the appointment of Roger...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries and EY produce broker tax guide

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries and EY have worked together to produce an educational guide...

Equifax and Canopy look to bolster tenant credit scores

Equifax UK is expanding its partnership with rental platform, Canopy, to help tenants to...

Keystone Property Finance overhauls criteria  

Keystone Property Finance has revamped its HMO offering and hiked its maximum loan to...

MFS lowers buy-to-let and bridging rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has cuts rates across both its buy-to-let mortgage range and...

Alternative Bridging provides £1.5m loan for BTL investment

Alternative Bridging Corporation has provided a large bridging loan so a client could move...

Molo Finance joins Brilliant Solutions’ panel

'Digital' buy-to-let lender, Molo Finance, has partnered with mortgage distributor, Brilliant Solutions. The arrangement will...

Virgin Money pulls majority of exclusive deals and ups rates

Virgin Money has made a series of changes within its range of fixed rate...

CHL bolsters BDM team with North of England hire

Specialist buy-to-let lender, CHL Mortgages, has added Aidan Walker to its business development manager...

Fleet Mortgages unveils seven-year fixes

Fleet Mortgages has launched seven-year fixed rates in all three of its buy-to-let core...

Foundation Home Loans expands specialist solicitor panel

Foundation Home Loans has launched an expanded panel of solicitors for specialist property cases,...

Mutual moves into holiday let market

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has entered the holiday let lending market. It said it is bringing its...

Skipton improves buy-to-let criteria following broker feedback

Skipton Building Society has updated its lending policy to allow for mortgages on new...

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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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‘Complex ia the new vanilla’: Affordability reshapes market

Mortgage cases with one or two complications are becoming the new “vanilla” as affordability...

Vulnerability data can unlock commercial gains, says MorganAsh

Financial services firms could be overlooking commercial opportunities by treating customer vulnerability mainly as...

Asking prices rise for first time since May as autumn market picks up

The average asking price of newly listed homes rose by 0.7% in September, the...

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...