Buy-to-let

ARLA: positive picture for renters

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has found that, in September, letting agents...

New five-year BTL deal from Together

Together has unveiled new five-year fixed buy-to-let mortgage. Meanwhile, the maximum loan size has been...

Wales to maintain stamp duty surcharge

The Welsh government has decided to continue the additional 3% stamp duty surcharge on...

Shawbrook continues commercial partner days

Shawbrook Bank's commercial mortgage team has welcomed over a hundred brokers to its annual...

Landbay unveils professional landlord products

Landbay has launched a new range of limited edition lending products with no Early...

New BTL deals from the Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has unveiled a pair of new buy-to-let mortgages. These...

Government’s landlord tax claims “tosh”, says NLA

Over 400,000 landlords (22%) who pay the basic rate of tax will be forced into...

The Mansfield becomes TMA panel lender

The Mansfield Building Society has launched as a panel lender with The Mortgage Alliance (TMA).  It will...

New BTL fixed rates from Mortgage Trust

Mortgage Trust has unveiled a range of products catering for buy-to-let property purchases and remortgages....

Prestige introduces consumer BTL

Prestige Finance has made cuts to all variable and fixed rates across its prime residential product...

One-third of tenants think they can take fixtures or fittings

30% of people who have rented a property in the last five years think...

11% year-on-year rise in house purchase borrowing

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that homeowners borrowed £12.2bn for house purchase...

5% fall in buy-to-let products available

The third quarter of 2016 saw the average number of buy-to-let mortgage products available...

Atom Bank joins Connect panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added Atom Bank to its mortgage lender panel. The specialist buy-to-let...

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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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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...

ModaMortgages unveils eight new limited edition deals

ModaMortgages has expanded its buy-to-let range by launching eight limited edition products at 80%...

Aspen completes £1.57m fast-track deal for repeat investor

Aspen Bridging has completed a £1,575,000 no-valuation bridge in under two weeks for a...