Buy-to-let

Warning sounded over pay rate BTL

Simon Bayley, commercial director at Foundation Home Loans, has questioned whether the next affordability bubble...

Landlords moving towards retail and commercial property

Master broker Clever Lending has reported seeing more landlords move away from 'traditional' buy-to-let property...

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries improves offering

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries will now pay the valuation fee on all its Help...

New BTL exclusive from 3mc

3mc is offering an exclusive buy-to-let deal which has the same 3.49% two-year fixed rate for...

FSE Manchester reveals seminar schedule

Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester has published details of its seminar programmes for the event...

Cost of renting rises by 2.6%

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has stated that private rental prices paid by...

Accord lowers minimum BTL property value

Accord Buy to Let will now accept buy-to-let loans on properties worth £75,000 and...

TMW tightens buy-to-let criteria

The Mortgage Works (TMW) is making changes to its rental calculation and maximum LTV. From...

RBS sounds Williams & Glyn warning

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reported a loss of £968 million for...

Kensington prices £350m securitisation

Kensington Mortgages has raised further funding in the capital markets through a new securitisation,...

Land Registry: house prices down 0.5% in March

The Land Registry March house price data has revealed a monthly price fall of 0.5%. The...

Paragon: decline in landlords’ purchasing intentions

Landlords are strengthening their credit profiles as they shift investment away from new acquisitions...

New Street Mortgages partners with Intrinsic

New Street Mortgages has expanded its distribution to include Intrinsic Financial Services. The new agreement will see...

BBA: 64% year-on-year rise in mortgage lending

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) has revealed that gross mortgage borrowing of £17.1 billion...

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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...

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...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...