Buy-to-let

Significant growth for landlord platform

Digital company formation and management platform, GetGround, has reported a six times year-on-year increase...

Shawbrook unveils new buy-to-let bandings

Shawbrook Bank has made a number of changes to its buy-to-let and HMO range,...

CHL Mortgages joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added buy-to-let lender, CHL Mortgages, to its panel. Paradigm member...

Zephyr Homeloans unveils 80% LTV packager exclusives

Zephyr Homeloans has launched 80% loan to value (LTV) mortgages exclusively available through its...

LendInvest appoints fintech law firm to BTL legal panel 

LendInvest has appointed 'digital-first' law firm, Juno, to its legal panel for its buy-to-let product. Juno...

The Dudley unveils energy efficient products

The Dudley Building Society launched two new remortgage products and a further advance product...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts buy-to-let rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced the rates on selected buy-to-let mortgages by up to...

Furlough no longer a major search criterion

‘Furloughed workers’ is no longer amongst the most-searched terms by brokers, according to Knowledge...

The Buckinghamshire unveils 80% LTV 5-year BTL fix

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a fixed year buy-to-let mortgage product with a fixed...

Landbay unveils new deals for landlords with three or fewer properties

Landbay has launched two brand new products for landlords with three properties or less. The...

Foundation Home Loans adds new 65% LTV Green Reward BTL remortgage

Foundation Home Loans has cut rates across its five-year fixed-rate mortgage range for landlord borrowers,...

Brightstar launches virtual expo for specialist lending

Brightstar Financial has announced the Specialist Lending Virtual Expo, a free one day digital...

Vida improves limited edition buy-to-let proposition

Vida is revising its limited edition buy-to-let product offering. Changes include extending the maximum loan...

Octane Capital completes its largest loan to date

Octane Capital has provided a £17.35m five-year buy-to-let facility, its largest and most complex loan...

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We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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...

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FCA joins industry partners to tackle protection insurance gap

The Financial Conduct Authority is working with industry, government and consumer groups in an...

Family Building Society appoints Laura Hamp as chief financial officer

Family Building Society has appointed Laura Hamp as chief financial officer and a member...

Buy-to-let market reaches £311.6bn as sector marks 30 years

The UK buy-to-let market has grown to almost two million outstanding mortgages worth £311.6bn,...

Conveyancing Association names Nick Chadbourne as new chair

The Conveyancing Association has appointed former LMS chief executive Nick Chadbourne as its new...