Buy-to-let

Off-plan sales hit 12-year low as costs squeeze housebuilders

The share of new homes sold off-plan has fallen to its lowest level since...

Vida expands residential range and relaunches buy-to-let products

Vida Homeloans has expanded its lending proposition with the reintroduction of 20 residential products...

Melton enters limited company buy-to-let market

Melton Building Society is entering the limited company buy-to-let sector as more landlords continue...

HSBC lowers rates across residential and buy-to-let ranges

HSBC UK is reducing a broad range of residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, with...

Jeremy Duncombe to retire as the Yorkshire reshapes homes division

Jeremy Duncombe is to retire from Yorkshire Building Society after supporting a transition that...

The Cambridge relaunches buy-to-let and residential mortgage products

The Cambridge Building Society has relaunched a selection of mortgage products across its buy-to-let...

PM Data Services adds upgrades to BTL sourcing platform

PM Data Services has rolled out a series of upgrades to its Genie sourcing platform...

Additional property purchases drive stamp duty receipts in more than half of councils

Landlords and second-home buyers now account for the majority of stamp duty receipts in...

Landlords urged to review rent guarantee cover after Renters’ Rights Act changes

Buy-to-let landlords should consider rent guarantee insurance after the Renters’ Rights Act came into...

Brightstar steps up hiring as group targets 20% annual growth

The Brightstar Group has made a series of hires across its businesses as it...

Foundation research points to steadier landlord confidence

Foundation Home Loans has reported signs of improving landlord confidence in the first quarter...

Hinckley & Rugby adds 80% LTV buy-to-let deals

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries has launched new 80% loan-to-value buy-to-let products and cut...

The Tipton launches broker portal with Mast Origin

The Tipton & Coseley Building Society has launched a new online application portal as...

Mortgage affordability reaches tightest level since 2008

Mortgage affordability has reached its tightest level since 2008, with borrowers spending an average...

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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...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

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The FCA published research on 27 August showing that 56% of 18- to 40-year-olds who hold or are considering investments say they trust AI...

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Rents set to rise by up to 5% as supply falls

UK rental growth is accelerating again as higher mortgage rates keep would-be first-time buyers...

Buy-to-let company formations fall as landlord incorporation boom slows

The number of new buy-to-let companies being established has fallen this year as the...

Mortgage sector wellbeing improves but burnout risks persist

Mental wellbeing across the mortgage industry has improved over the past year, although long...

Cyber attacks on property businesses rise 17% as hackers target client data

Cyber attacks against UK property services businesses increased by 17% last year as agents...