Buy-to-let

The Mansfield unveils Family Buy to Let deal at 100% ICR

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a new Family Buy to Let mortgage that enables...

Tenant demand at lowest level in five years

BM Solutions' latest quarterly index has revealed that landlord confidence ended 2017 low but relatively...

Kensington and New Street Mortgages launch in Scotland

Kensington and New Street Mortgages are launching in Scotland.  Initially this will be a limited...

Record high for rental stock

ARLA Propertymark has revealed that in December, the number of properties letting agents managed...

UK rental market rebalancing

Your Move has reported that the average rent in England and Wales was £850...

Lack of safety net for four million renters

38% of private renters say that they would not be financially secure if their...

West One Loans teams up with Fluent Money Group

Second charge lender West One Loans has partnered with Fluent Money Group to offer...

The Skipton makes cuts to buy-to-let rates

The Skipton Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.49 percentage points across...

2017 saw HMOs provide highest buy-to-let yields

Mortgages for Business' latest Complex Buy-to-let Index has revealed that HMOs produced average yields of 8.9%...

24% rise in mortgage product availability

Mortgage Brain has reported that an additional 2,007 mortgage products were introduced into the...

Accord revamps buy-to-let offering

Accord has unveiled 17 new buy-to-let deals as well as reduced rates by up...

Landbay added to Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the addition of Landbay to its mortgage club panel. Paradigm...

PRA changes have made it tougher for portfolio landlords

70% of portfolio landlords have found it harder to secure a mortgage since the...

Simplybiz adds Landbay to panel

Landbay Partners has joined SimplyBiz Mortgages’ lender panel. All SimplyBiz Mortgages' members now have to...

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The Treasury is casting more floaters than a sewage farm

The problem with having a thoroughly inexperienced Chancellor and a properly ‘woodenheaded’ Prime Minister, is that they are learning the job ‘on the hoof’...

HMOs: market realities, future prospects, and the broker opportunity

The HMO sector remains one of the most dynamic parts of the private rented market, with recent data showing it’s both a significant asset...

Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

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Climate change concern reshaping UK property market, survey finds

Climate change has become a decisive factor in UK property transactions, with new research...

iPipeline expands ‘advanced underwriting’ to whole adviser market

iPipeline has extended its advanced underwriting feature to all advisers using its SolutionBuilder platform,...

Housing market ‘faces two months of uncertainty’

The housing market is braced for a prolonged period of uncertainty after Coventry Building...

Landlords in low-yield regions face refinancing strain

Buy-to-let landlords in some of Britain’s most expensive areas are facing a fresh refinancing...