Buy-to-let

Kent Reliance partners with The Mortgage Alliance

Kent Reliance has teamed up with The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) to provide a direct submission...

Rents ended 2016 up in most areas

Your Move has reported that the average rent was £811 in England and Wales...

Kent Reliance offers its lowest ever five-year BTL rates

Kent Reliance has made changes to its five-year fixed rate buy-to-let offering.  Rates now start...

New additional borrowing products from the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society has launched a new range of two, three and five-year...

New northern BDM for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has announced the appointment of a new business development manager (BDM) covering...

The Mansfield unveils specialist lending brand

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a specialist lending proposition called Versatility. It aims to...

Tenants pay premium for third bedroom

Rents on three bedroom homes in London continue to grow while one and two...

The Right Mortgage Network expands BTL panel

State Bank of India UK (SBI UK) buy-to-let mortgages can now be accessed via...

InterBay simplifies pricing and cuts rates

InterBay Commercial is to simplify its mortgage range for buy-to-let business and houses of multiple occupation...

New two-year fixes from Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has launched two new products for individual landlords.  Brokers can now access both two-year fixes,...

Paymentshield appoints Modus to panel

Paymentshield has added Modus to its landlord’s insurance panel. It says the appointment of Modus comes...

Connect for Intermediaries launches residential permissions

Connect for Intermediaries has expanded its mortgage network proposition to now include residential permissions. The...

Large slump in Paragon buy-to-let lending

Paragon Group saw a dramatic fall in its buy-to-let lending in the final quarter...

Strong 12 months for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has revealed that in its second full year of lending it lent over...

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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...