Buy-to-let

Harpenden joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Harpenden Building Society to its lender panel. Paradigm member firms...

Suffolk BS improves criteria to increase case suitability

Suffolk Building Society has made four changes to its lending criteria. The mutual has increased...

Paragon reports 34% rise in buy-to-let lending

Paragon Bank's buy-to-let lending increased by 33.9% to £1.61 billion in its last financial...

Zephyr Homeloans introduces new ‘EPC Deal’ products

Zephyr Homeloans has unveiled a series of new products as part of a range...

Almost all advisers expect more limited company business next year

96% of brokers expect to write more limited company business in 2022, according to...

Vida unveils new limited edition winter deals

Vida has launched a range of new 'winter limited edition' products. These include a new...

MPowered Mortgages joins TRM lender panel

MPowered Mortgages is now available to The Right Mortgage and Protection Network members as...

Twenty7Tec: remortgage searches continue to dominate

Twenty7Tec has reported that remortgage searches totalled 43.2% of the mortgage market searches in...

CHL Mortgages adds new LTV bands and cuts rates

CHL Mortgages has unveiled a series of products across new LTV bands, reduced rates...

MFS completes its first buy-to-let mortgage

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed its first buy-to-let loan following the soft of...

Metro Bank increases maximum BTL LTV

Metro Bank has made a number of changes to its range of buy-to-let mortgages. It...

Virgin Money ups BTL and residential rates

Virgin Money has increased a number of rates within its residential and buy-to-let ranges. The...

Recognise Bank completes £1.75m PDR deal with new PBTL offering

Recognise Bank has completed  a £1.75m Professional Buy-to-Let (PBTL) deal for a PDR (Permitted...

Visionary Finance appoints head of operations

Specialist buy-to-let and new build broker, Visionary Finance, has appointed Neill Henderson as head...

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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...