Buy-to-let

South West of England is home to the fastest rising rents

The London rental market has continued to cool, with prices falling by 0.5% in...

LendInvest removes debenture and cuts ICR assessment rates for BTL

LendInvest has dropped its debenture and floating charge amongst a series of changes to...

UK sees slowdown in rental growth

Rents in the UK, excluding London, rose by 1.18% in the 12 months to...

Buy to Let Club offering Precise exclusives

Precise Mortgages has launched two new buy-to-let fixed rate products exclusively through Buy to...

Foundation Home Loans unveils its lowest ever fixed rates

Foundation Home Loans has introduced its lowest ever fixed rates with its new ‘Summer...

Marsden BS adds new expat, older borrower and residential deals

The Marsden Building Society has added new products across its expat, older borrower and...

The Swansea BS partners with TBMC

The Swansea Building Society has team up with TBMC to offer its buy-to-let and...

Transaction falls don’t tell the whole story

When we put together the LendInvest Buy to Let Index every quarter, we bring...

London buy-to-let market attracts investment in Q2

Commercial Trust has reported that during the second quarter of the year, London recorded the...

The Coventry publishes half-year results

The Coventry Building Society has reported net lending of £1.5 billion for the first...

Sutherland Mortgage Services moves into UK market

Sutherland Mortgage Services has announced Gatehouse Bank as its first UK client. The Sharia-compliant bank...

Accord cuts buy-to-let rates

Accord Buy To Let has reduced rates across its mortgage range by up to...

Castle Trust appoints new telephone BDM

Castle Trust has appointed Steve Gregory as its new telephone business development manager (BDM)for...

69% of BTL landlords choose to fix for five years

The second quarter of the year saw 93% of landlords financing buy-to-let property choose...

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Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

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...

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ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...