Buy-to-let

October rise in first-time buyer completions

UK Finance has reported that there were 32,260 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

PMS and Sesame add Hampshire Trust Bank to lender panels

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network, part of Sesame Bankhall Group, have expanded their...

The Leeds refreshes buy-to-let proposition

The Leeds Building Society has reduced rates on selected fee free two-year buy-to-let fixed...

Together+ reaches £1bn pipeline

Specialist lender Together has generated £1bn of applications through its Together+ initiative. The scheme was launched...

Brokers to benefit from buy-to-let remortgaging in 2020

301% of landlords plan to remortgage over the next year, according to research for...

Foundation Home Loans makes flexible buy-to-let criteria changes

Foundation Home Loans has made a series of criteria enhancements across its buy-to-let product...

Year-on-year rise in outstanding value of mortgages

Latest Mortgage Lenders and Administrators Statistics show the outstanding value of all residential mortgage...

InterBay Commercial partners with Sesame Network

InterBay Commercial has partnered with Sesame Network to provide a direct submission route for...

Accord revises buy-to-let minimum income requirement

Accord Buy To Let has made changes to criteria and documentation requirements, in a...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts buy-to-let rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced rates on five-year fixed standard buy-to-let and portfolio landlord...

Metro Bank makes buy-to-let rate cuts

Metro Bank has reduced interest rates by 0.2 percentage points across its fixed rate...

Landbay exits peer-to-peer lending

Buy-to-let mortgage lender, Landbay, has shut its retail investment arm and exited the peer-to-peer...

New South East BDM for Castle Trust

Castle Trust has appointed James Adkin as business development manager (BDM) for the South...

November “a month of massive change in mortgage criteria searching”

Knowledge Bank has revealed the most popular criteria searches that brokers conducted in November. In...

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Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

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Knowledge Bank adds six HMO criteria questions after broker clinic

Knowledge Bank is to add six criteria questions to its platform after mortgage brokers...

Specialist lenders drive semi-commercial market towards £1bn

Britain's semi-commercial mortgage market is on course to exceed £1 billion of annual lending...

Equity Release Council names John Godfrey as chair

John Godfrey, the former head of the No 10 policy unit, has been appointed...

Monmouthshire app brings in new generation of customers

Seven in 10 customers registered for Monmouthshire Building Society's app had not previously banked...