Buy-to-let

Fleet Mortgages unveils rates cuts

Fleet Mortgages has made a number of price reductions across all three of its...

Keystone increases large loan cashback

Keystone Property Finance has increased the amount of cashback it pays on large loans...

Spencer Gale joins Quantum Mortgages

Spencer Gale has begun his role as sales director at new buy-to-let Lender Quantum...

Paragon cuts rates across buy-to-let ranges

Paragon Bank has refreshed its buy-to-let product ranges, reducing rates across 20 products. New deals...

15% of landlords ignorant over impending EPC requirements

15% of landlords surveyed have no knowledge of the upcoming legislative changes to the...

Bluestone announces trio of senior hires

Specialist lender, Bluestone Mortgages, has today announced three senior appointments. Victoria Robb joins as...

New regional hub for Recognise Bank

Recognise Bank has opened a new regional hub in Leeds. Recognise will now be...

Impact Specialist Finance exclusives now on MortgageBrain

All of Impact Specialist Finance's exclusive and semi-exclusive products can now be sourced on...

Family BS cuts new business rates

Family Building Society has reduced rates on its mortgage product range for new business. The mutual...

BTL rates barely affected by Bank Rate rise

Despite the base rate rise in December from 0.1% to 0.25%, the average cost...

Castle Trust Bank introduces new year improvements

Castle Trust Bank has reduced the rate on one of its most popular products,...

Landbay simplifies buy-to-let range with new rates

Landbay has refreshed its range to simplify its buy-to-let mortgage offering and has added...

New Keystone appointments to drive growth plans

Keystone Property Finance has promoted Moises Cruickshank to head of sales and recruited two...

Paragon unveils switch and further advance products

Paragon has introduced a range of switch and further advance products for portfolio 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 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...