Buy-to-let

Untied and Lendlord launch integrated tax filing for landlords

Lendlord has selected personal tax app, untied, to power its tax capability for its...

West One joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added West One to its lender panel. Paradigm member firms are...

Foundation Home Loans refreshes resi & BTL ranges

Foundation Home Loans has refreshed and repriced its core residential and buy-to-let product ranges. ...

The Nottingham cuts 75% LTV limited company rates

The Nottingham has cut rates across its range of fixed-rate 75% LTV limited company...

Skipton International reports 60% rise in UK buy-to-let business

Skipton International has reported growth in the buy-to-let mortgage market for expats in 2021. The...

CHL Mortgages adds to BDM team

CHL Mortgages has appointed Brian Sanford as a business development manager (BDM) for the...

Vida unveils new key worker mortgage

Vida has made a number of changes to its criteria to broaden its product...

MFS launches buy-to-let offering following pilot

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has launched its buy-to-let mortgage range to all brokers and...

West One improves BTL criteria and rates

West One Loans' buy-to-let division has made a number of changes to its product...

Understanding and demonstrating value

There are a huge number of ways in which a broker can demonstrate their...

Barclays unveils new green buy-to-let mortgage

Barclays Mortgages has launched the Barclays Green Home Buy-to-Let Mortgage, available to existing and...

Gatehouse Bank ups max finance amount on Home Purchase Plan products

Gatehouse Bank has increased the maximum finance amount on its Home Purchase Plans (HPPs)...

NatWest increases maximum procuration fee

NatWest is increasing its maximum procuration fee payable, following market feedback from brokers. The bank...

Rental yields keeping pace with property prices

Fleet Mortgages has published the latest iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q4...

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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...