Buy-to-let

Rents continue to rise due to property supply pressure

The Deposit Protection Service (DPS) has reported that average UK rents increased for the...

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...

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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...