Buy-to-let

New deals for landlords from Accord

Accord Buy To Let has aunched a choice of new mortgages for landlords with...

OSB reveals plans for PRA portfolio landlord changes

OneSavings Bank (OSB) has announced its new lending criteria for portfolio landlords to help...

L&G Mortgage Club outlines autumn event schedule

Legal & General Mortgage Club has published its calendar of Autumn events that focus...

Skipton International unveils BTL guide for renting to millennials

Skipton International has launched a new guide for buy-to-let investors looking at renting to...

New Street Mortgages introduces free BTL valuations

New Street Mortgages has made changes to its buy-to-let offering. The Northview Group...

Rise in first-time buyer borrowing

UK Finance has revealed that in June, first-time buyers borrowed £5.9bn, up 26% on...

Buy-to-let mortgage costs coming down

Mortgage Brain has reported further rate and cost reductions of most mainstream buy-to-let products...

FP Show expands lending remit

The Finance Professional Show (FP Show) will take place on 8 November at Olympia in...

Octane Capital refinances BTL portfolio despite credit issues

Octane Capital has completed a £1.1m refinance of a complex buy-to-let portfolio comprising four properties...

Landbay partners with Positive Lending

Positive Lending is to join Landbay’s panel of distribution partners. Landbay will help Positive Lending...

TMA unveils BTL Hub in advance of PRA changes

TMA has launched a dedicated website, the ‘BTL Hub’, to support advisers, ahead of...

AToM outlines September roadshow programme

All Types of Mortgages Ltd (AToM) has revealed the dates and locations for its September...

Trio of new broker BDMs for Together

Together has appointed three new business development managers to cover the North East, London...

Positive offers Marsden’s older borrower range

Positive Lending is adding Marsden Building Society’s Older Borrower products to its lending portfolio.  The...

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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’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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London’s luxury lettings market surges 154% as wealthy tenants opt to rent

London’s prime lettings market has more than doubled in size during the first half...

3.3 million households locked out of home ownership

More than three million households have been priced out of home ownership since the...

Carlyle to acquire intelliflo from Invesco in $200m deal

Global investment group Carlyle has agreed to acquire intelliflo, the London-based provider of cloud-based...

LMS becomes affiliate member of the Conveyancing Association

The Conveyancing Association has welcomed LMS as its newest affiliate member, marking a formal...