Buy-to-let

Younger people lead trend of considering holiday let ownership

17% of UK adults have thought about buying a holiday let property during the...

Brilliant Solutions joins Quantum Mortgages’ panel

Quantum Mortgages has added both the packaging and mortgage club arm of Brilliant Solutions...

OSB Group boosts specialist finance team

OSB Group has expanded its specialist finance team through the appointment of three new account...

UTB appoints BTL head in advance of new product launch

UTB Mortgages for Intermediaries has announced the appointment of Barry Luhmann as head of...

Huge rise predicted in older people renting

A report by the Social Market Foundation (SMF), with analysis conducted on behalf of...

Clydesdale Bank increases fixed rates

Clydesdale Bank has announced changes to its product range. Rates have been increased on a...

Lifting the lid on specialist lending

Specialist lending can be an intimidating and sometimes misunderstood area of the mortgage market...

Keystone Property Finance backs Homes for Ukraine scheme

Keystone Property Finance will help landlords who want to support Ukrainian refugees by signing...

Virgin Money increases selected fixed rates

Virgin Money has made changes to selected fixed rate mortgages. The changes came into force...

Foundation Home Loans improves fee-assisted BTL offering

Foundation Home Loans has made a series of changes to its fee-assisted buy-to-let product...

West One provides £2.9m buy-to-let loan

West One Loans has completed a £2.9m, complex buy-to-let loan with a landlord who...

MFS secures £300m funding

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed it has agreed over £300 million of new...

Landbay joins White Rose lender panel

Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, has joined White Rose’s lender panel. White Rose will now provide...

Meeting EPC requirements in buy-to-let

There’s no doubting that information on Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), their increasing importance, and...

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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...