Buy-to-let

Foundation Home Loans revamps complete product range

Foundation Home Loans has refreshed its entire range of specialist buy-to-let and residential products. Foundation...

Accord to significantly increase headcount

Accord Mortgages has appointed 26 new team members across its sales and underwriting teams. 2020...

Barclays expands 90% LTV mortgage availability

Barclays has made a series of changes to its residential and Reward ranges. The bank...

Roma Finance joins Mortgage Market Alliance

Roma Finance has become the latest founder member to join the Mortgage Market Alliance...

West One Loans expands BTL division

West One Loans has made a number of senior hires for a range of...

Landlords optimistic about 2021

45% of landlords say they are optimistic about the buy-to-let market in 2021, according...

New Fleet role for Steve Cox

Fleet Mortgages has announced the promotion of Steve Cox to the position of chief...

Shawbrook completes rapid £7.8m BTL deal

Shawbrook Bank has helped a customer with an urgent £7.8m loan to refinance a...

Rental market remains steady

ARLA Propertymark has reported that the number of tenants experiencing rent increases in November...

Paul Brett to chair FIBA conference panel

Paul Brett, managing director of intermediaries at Landbay, is to be the panel chair...

West One makes first mortgage club appointment

West One’s buy-to-let division has launched its first mortgage club proposition with Dynamo for...

Fleet’s criteria changes include £2m maximum loan size

Fleet Mortgages has made changes to its criteria. The buy-to-let lender has reintroduced a...

Property Master hires digital marketing head

Online buy-to-let mortgage broker, Property Master, has appointed Christopher Brown as its head of...

Ingard expands buy-to-let panel with lender appointment

Ingard has appointed Zephyr Homeloans to its buy-to-let mortgage panel. The network's members can now access...

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Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

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...

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Saffron expands expat landlord range and eases residential income criteria

Saffron for Intermediaries has broadened its specialist mortgage criteria with new expat HMO products...

Gable zero-deposit mortgages added to Twenty7tec sourcing platform

Twenty7tec has added Gable Mortgages to its RESEARCH platform, making the lender's zero-deposit residential...

Second charge mortgage lending rises 25% over 12 months

Second charge mortgage lending continued to grow in July, with £205 million of new...

Perenna integrates Scroll Finance as specialist lending expansion gathers pace

Perenna has completed the integration of second charge lender Scroll Finance as it prepares...