Buy-to-let

Together revamps buy-to-let offering

Together has made changes to its buy-to-let product range, promising reduced rates, quicker online application...

First Complete & Pink urges broker action over BTL changes

First Complete and Pink are calling for brokers to ensure landlords on their books...

Paul Brett joins Landbay

Landbay has appointed Paul Brett as managing director, intermediaries. He joins the peer-to-peer investment platform from...

Promise offers free landlord tax consultations

Master broker Promise Specialist Lending is providing landlords with a free telephone consultation with...

Landlords shifting towards commercial loans

The proportion of landlords intending to take out commercial loans to fund their property...

Rental market “far from reaching equilibrium”

ARLA Propertymark has revealed that in January, there were 34 prospective tenants registered per...

Aldermore outlines retention fee offering

Aldermore is to launch a retention procuration fee for brokers on 3 April 2017. Procuration fees will be available...

The Coventry reports 13% rise in new lending

The Coventry Building Society has reported 'record results' for 2016. The mutual's full year results show record mortgage...

Landlords enjoy good start to 2017

The latest Your Move England & Wales Buy to Let Index has found that...

New buy-to-let deals from Pepper Homeloans

Pepper Homeloans has launched two and five-year buy-to-let fixed rates and cutting some existing rates by...

Lowest rate ever for Kent Reliance

Kent Reliance has made changes to its specialist buy-to-let mortgage range, with rates now starting from 2.99%,...

Coventry for Intermediaries to pay BTL transfer proc fees

Coventry for Intermediaries is to start paying product transfer fees on buy-to-let retention business from...

Saffron For Intermediaries unveils specialist BTL deals

Saffron For Intermediaries has launched five-year fixed rate mortgages for expats purchasing or remortgaging rental...

Accord lowers 60-75% LTV buy-to-let rates

Accord Buy To Let has cuts rates on its lower loan to value (LTV) mortgages...

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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...