Buy-to-let

CHL Mortgages joins Brilliant Solutions’ panel

CHL Mortgages has been added to Brilliant Solutions’ lending panel. This partnership will provide...

TFC’s lender portal now includes EPC ratings

TFC Homeloans has announced that it is now including Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) information...

TMA Club adds CHL Mortgages to panel

TMA Club has announced the addition of CHL Mortgages to its lender panel. Directly Authorised (DA) brokers who are members of TMA will have access to CHL Mortgages’ range...

Paragon: voids hit five-year low

Paragon Bank has reported that the incidence of void periods has declined over the...

EPC requirements not straightforward for landlords

Nearly a quarter of landlords say their properties are currently rated D or below...

Knowledge Bank adds West One BTL criteria

The buy-to-let range from West One Loans has been added to Knowledge Bank’s criteria...

Portfolio mortgages may offer answer in big year for remortgages

As expected, this week the Bank of England announced another increase to base rate....

Act now to help landlord clients combat potential BTL rate rise

In line with the expectation of many economists, the Bank of England has just...

Vida Homeloans now on MBT Affordability platform

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has added Vida Homeloans to its MBT Affordability research platform. MBT...

Hanley Economic BS unveils five-year remortgage deals

Hanley Economic Building Society has added two five-year fixed rate remortgage specials to its...

Paragon Bank unveils eight new buy-to-let mortgages

Paragon Bank has added four limited-edition products and four switch products. Four limited edition products...

Newcastle Intermediaries improves residential and BTL criteria

Newcastle Intermediaries has made changes to its residential and buy-to-let lending criteria, introducing increased...

Vida expands expat lending country list

Vida is broadening its range of expat locations to also include India, Malaysia, Saudi...

Landbay introduces policy for miscarriage leave

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has introduced a miscarriage leave policy for women who lose their...

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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 is 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...