Buy-to-let

Shawbrook provides offer in 48 hours using new BTL platform

Shawbrook Bank has used its new buy-to-let platform to provide a formal mortgage offer...

Fleet cuts rates following intermediary feedback

Fleet Mortgages has made a series of price reductions on a selection of two and...

Roma Finance joins Fluent Bridging panel

Fluent Bridging has appointed Roma Finance to its bridging panel. The lender's bridging, development...

Paragon issues green bonds worth £150m

Paragon Banking Group has issued £150 million in Tier 2 Green Bonds. It is the...

West One buy-to-let available through SimplyBiz Mortgages

SimplyBiz Mortgages has added West One to its panel, so the lender’s buy-to-let proposition...

SimplyBiz unveils Specialist Property Finance Club with FIBA

Mortgage club, SimplyBiz Mortgages, has teamed up with the Financial Intermediary and Broker Association (FIBA)...

MBT reveals top residential lenders for affordability

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has used the two million searches processed through the MBT Affordability...

Landbay introduces high-rise BTL and trading company lending

Landbay has launched a range of buy-to-let products for trading limited companies purchasing or...

The Leeds tweaks buy-to-let ICR

The Leeds Building Society has stated that landlords who are basic rate taxpayers will...

Foundation unveils Limited Edition limited company buy-to-lets

Foundation Home Loans has launched two new Limited Edition limited company buy-to-let products. The products –...

TMA adds new lender to panel

TMA Club has teamed up with newly launched lender, MPowered Mortgages, so Directly Authorised...

Virgin cuts residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

Virgin Money has made a series of rate reductions across its residential and buy-to-let...

Skipton International improves buy-to-let criteria

Skipton International has extended its buy-to-let mortgage lending criteria on UK property to 75%...

Bridge Help unveils new buy-to-let rate

Bridging finance provider Bridge Help has reduced its buy-to-let rate by a 0.25 percentage points...

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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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FORTO Finance launches with focus on expat mortgage market

FORTO Finance has launched in the UK mortgage and protection market following a pilot...

Just Mortgages appoints Gina McLaren as Midlands area director

Just Mortgages has expanded the management team within its self-employed division with the appointment...

Brokers value access to underwriters over slick technology

Mortgage brokers would rather have access to an underwriter than a sophisticated lender portal...

Imperial Chartered and Cornerstone golf day raises £11,000 for MNDA

Imperial Chartered and Cornerstone Finance Group have raised more than £11,000 for the Motor...