Buy-to-let

Accord ups maximum buy-to-let LTV to 80%

Accord Buy To Let has increased the maximum loan to value (LTV) on its...

Streamlining buy-to-let insurance

Once the go-to choice for canny investors, the shine has come off the buy-to-let...

More tenancy deposit disputes being resolved before adjudication

Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) has revealed that early intervention between landlords and tenants across...

Coventry for Intermediaries broadens buy-to-let policy

Coventry for Intermediaries has made a number of changes to its buy-to-let proposition. It has...

Foundation Home Loans offers new limited company BTL deal

Foundation Home Loan has introduced a new five-year fixed rate product solely for buy-to-let...

March saw year-on-year decrease in first-time buyers

UK Finance's Mortgage Trends Update for March 2019  has revealed that there were 28,800...

TSB cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

TSB has made a number of rate changes to its residential and buy-to-let ranges. Changes...

LendInvest launches limited edition BTL remortgage products

LendInvest has cut its product fees and lowered interest rates for both of its...

Paradigm reveals 2019 lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Protect, the mortgage services and protection propositions, have announced...

HLP/MSN business up 20% in Q1

Members of HL Partnership (HLP) and Mortgage Support Network (MSN) saw a 19.7% uplift...

The Mortgage Lender appointed to MCI Mortgage Club panel

MCI Mortgage Club has appointed The Mortgage Lender to its lender panel. The club has...

New short-term deals from Paragon

Paragon is expanding its specialist buy-to-let mortgage range with new short term finance products...

Fleet Mortgages adds 80% LTV options to offering

Fleet Mortgage has added 80% LTV products across the three core areas of its product...

Barclays unveils zero fee new build deals

Barclays is making changes across its residential, buy-to-let and Reward ranges. New products will launch...

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Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

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MIMHC makes final call as charity lunch nears capacity

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) has made a final call for industry...

Virgin Money to move eligible product transfers to Nationwide from October

Virgin Money is changing its residential product transfer process, with some customers whose deals...

Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average...