Buy-to-let

Hinckley & Rugby outlines new BTL stress test policy

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has revealed its new lending policy for buy-to-let mortgages. The...

Clever Lending partners with Kensington 

Clever Lending is to distribute Kensington Mortgages range of specialist and buy-to-let mortgages.  The partnership will see Clever Lending...

Intermediary sentiment improving

Paragon Mortgages’ latest Financial Advisors Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index report has found an improvement...

Barclays simplifies BTL affordability assessment

Barclays has become the latest lender to respond to the Prudential Regulation Authority's (PRA) new...

8% fall in homeowner loans

  The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that homeowners borrowed £10.5bn for house purchase...

CML establishes profile and plans of landlords

In what it claims to be the largest survey to date of UK landlords,...

Landlords to ditch lettings agents if profits hit

47% of landlords say they would forego the services of their letting agent if...

Shawbrook Commercial cuts pricing

Shawbrook Bank has unveiled reduced rates of up to 1.06% on commercial products and...

Energy efficiency changes could “cripple the rental market”

Almost one in 10 properties currently available on the rental market could become unrentable by 2018...

L&G Mortgage Club offers new BTL matrix

Legal & General Mortgage Club has unveiled its new Rental Calculation Matrix. It has...

Stay busy in the run-up to Christmas

If you’re anything like me then, as we approach Christmas, you can’t be certain...

Booming property market in Edinburgh

Rental properties in Scotland continued to outperform expectations in October 2016, according to the...

Two new Privileged Partners for the Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has added two networks of mortgage brokers to...

Paragon changes affordability assessment

Paragon Mortgages is the latest lender to announce changes to its affordability assessment for...

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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...

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...

Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Right of Light risks: a looming shadow over construction projects

Gone are the days when a Right of Light infringement could be swiftly dealt with by simply taking out an indemnity insurance policy. Specialists used...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

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Aldermore unveils new limited edition five-year BTL products

Aldermore has launched a pair of limited edition five-year buy-to-let mortgages for landlords, with...

AMI calls on advisers to take part in protection survey

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has launched its annual survey of mortgage and...

Broker confidence holds steady as mortgage market cools

Confidence among mortgage brokers held firm in the second quarter of the year despite...

The Suffolk cuts expat mortgage rates amid rising demand

Suffolk Building Society has cut rates across its expat mortgage range, with reductions of...