Buy-to-let

Newcastle Intermediaries improves buy-to-let criteria

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced the minimum income requirement for joint buy-to-let properties from £40,000...

New BTL deals from the Leeds BS

The Leeds Building Society has changed its buy-to-let mortgage offering and has launched a five year tracker with...

Landlords favouring five year fixed rates

While most landlords have been affected by recent and ongoing restrictions to income tax relief...

London main driver of rental slowdown

Landbay's latest Rental Index has reported that UK rents grew by just 0.02% in...

Increase in availability of specialist mortgages

The first quarter of the year saw demand for specialist mortgages rise, according to...

Vida Homeloans unveils 2.69% fixed rate

Vida Homeloans has announced a new 'Limited Edition' range of residential and buy-to-let mortgages...

Platform cuts rates on buy-to-let

Platform has cut a number of select fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage interest rates by up...

Boost for successful FTB applications

67% of first-time buyers’ mortgage applications made via intermediaries resulted in completions during the...

Metro Bank buys £600m mortgage book

Metro Bank has completed the purchase of a portfolio of UK mortgages from Cerberus...

Five-year fixes grow in popularity

Paragon Mortgages’ latest Financial Advisors Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index report has found that preference...

Liverpool is top BTL hotspot

Liverpool is the UK’s number one buy-to-let hotspot, offering rental yields of 8.0% once...

Average tenancy deposits remain just below £1k

Average tenancy deposits for England and Wales remain just below £1,000 according to figures...

Expect more intervention after the election

At the time of writing, there is plenty of activity on social media about...

Fall in cost of buy-to-let mortgages

Mortgage Brain’s latest buy-to-let product data analysis show that the cost of a three...

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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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Rightmove warns property tax reforms could stall housing market

Rightmove has warned the government that proposed changes to property taxation risk distorting the...

Bradford retains crown as UK’s leading property hotspot

Bradford has once again been named the country’s most in-demand housing market, topping OnTheMarket’s...

Keystone reduces expat buy-to-let rates and adds new product

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates across its expat buy-to-let range, cutting selected fixed...

Gatehouse cuts buy-to-let rental rates and eases paperwork

Gatehouse Bank has cut rental rates by 0.25% across its buy-to-let purchase plans for...