Buy-to-let

Fleet Mortgages revamps senior management team

Fleet Mortgages has made a number of changes and promotions within its senior management...

Hinckley & Rugby launches larger BTL loan products

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched three new buy-to-let larger loan mortgages designed...

Hodge’s holiday let mortgages now from 3.75%

Hodge has unveiled further reductions on its holiday let mortgages, by reducing the five-year...

The Nottingham improves first-time buyer no-fee deal

The Nottingham has announced rate reductions to its no-fee five-year fixed 95% LTV mortgage...

CHL Mortgages hires BDM for South West England and Wales

CHL Mortgages has appointed Stephen Wrigley as a business development manager (BDM) for the...

West One makes raft of buy-to-let changes

West One Loans’ buy-to-let division has unveiled a series of product and criteria changes,...

NatWest to launch green buy-to-let products

NatWest has announced the launch of its green buy-to-let product on 24 November. The green buy-to-let mortgage product...

New Paragon BTL rates from 3.05%

Paragon Bank has reduced rates on four of its 80% and 75% loan to...

Fleet Mortgages appoints NW BDM

Fleet Mortgages has announced the appointment of a new business development manager (BDM) for...

Recognise Bank funds £5m buy-to-let portfolio refinancing

Recognise Bank has completed a £5 million Professional buy-to-let (PBTL) refinance deal on a...

‘Use it or lose it’ doesn’t make sense

Technology is often at the forefront of all minds, particularly when you’re an intermediary...

Will buy-to-let investors be hit by a Stamp Duty hike?

The Budget came and went with little fanfare as far as landlords, the buy-to-let...

London and the South drove Stamp Duty holiday buy-to-let purchase activity

Paragon Bank has revealed that London, the South East and the South West led...

Gatehouse Bank reinstates MUFB lending for international investors

Gatehouse Bank has expanded its buy-to-let product range for international investors to include Multi-Unit...

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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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First-time buyers face 21-month minimum saving period for upfront costs

A typical private renter would need almost 21 months to save the £26,409 required...

Curvestone joins OpenAI Partner Network as Select Partner

AI compliance platform Curvestone has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI...

‘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...