Buy-to-let

Paradigm expands mortgage lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Vida Homeloans to its lender panel. All Paradigm advisers and...

Trio joins Complete FS

Complete FS has announced the arrival of three new members of staff to its...

New BTL exclusive from 3mc

Mortgage distributor 3mc has launched an exclusive buy-to-let mortgage deal funded by Precise Mortgages,...

Landlords continuing to see strong rental demand

Paragon Mortgages has revealed that tenant demand for private rented accommodation is continuing to...

Nationwide & TMW latest to reward retention

The Nationwide Building Society is to pay mortgage brokers a procuration fee for retention business.  The...

The Hinckley & Rugby cuts fixed and BTL rates

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has cut the interest rates on its two-year...

Pepper mortgages available to Tenet members

Pepper Homeloans has teamed up with Tenet Group to make its specialist mortgages available via...

Landlord pessimism grows

Paragon Mortgages has reported a modest improvement in optimism among landlords as they begin to...

New broker portal for Paragon

BEP Systems has helped Paragon Group implement a new broker portal platform. The portal is based...

Kensington launches sub-3% rates

Kensington Mortgages has made rate changes across its residential and buy-to-let products, including a 2.99%...

Strong end to the year for mortgage market

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that homeowner house purchase lending totalled...

BTL market starting to stabilise?

Mortgage Brain has stated that the cost of buy-to-let mortgages remain at record lows...

Vida changes buy-to-let offering

Vida Homeloans has altered its buy-to-let proposition, following the introduction of new underwriting standards by...

Pepper added to TMA lender panel

Pepper Homeloans is to market its specialist mortgages via The Mortgage Alliance (TMA).  TMA’s brokers will...

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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...