Buy-to-let

Keystone joins Mortgage Compliance & Insurance Club panel

Specialist buy-to-let lender Keystone Property Finance has joined the mortgage panel of Mortgage Compliance...

We need to understand what all housing stakeholders want

With The Spice Girls about to embark on a nostalgia-fest tour round the country,...

Look north of London for rental growth, landlords told

Landbay has found that the average rent for a property in the UK grew...

Platform’s BTL changes include housing benefit restriction removal

Platform has cut select interest rates in its buy-to-let mortgage products with some options...

Scale of limited company BTL intentions revealed

The latest landlord research from Foundation Home Loans has found that of those landlords...

The Mortgage Lender unveils expat buy-to-let offering

The Mortgage Lender has launched its first expat buy-to-let products. The products are available to expats...

Sainsbury’s Bank announces widespread rate changes

Sainsbury’s Bank has made a number fo changes to its residential & buy-to-let product...

Legal & General Mortgage Club updates SmartrCriteria

Legal & General Mortgage Club has made changes to SmartrCriteria, its digital criteria search...

Precise allows top slicing across complete buy-to-let range

Precise Mortgages has extended its top slicing feature available across its entire buy-to-let range. The...

DPS unveils deposit cap calculator

Letting agents and landlords who use The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) can now...

Modest rise in Scottish rents

Your Move Scotland has found that landlords in Scotland saw an average return of...

HMOs still providing highest rental yields

The Leeds Building Society's latest study has found that landlords letting houses in multiple...

The Teacher’s BS joins TMA lender panel

TMA Club has announced the addition of the Teacher’s Building Society to its lender...

Foundation Home Loans to hold BTL breakfast clubs

Foundation Home Loans is to hold a series of buy-to-let breakfast club events around...

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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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I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost?...

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...