Buy-to-let

Income from property reaches £16.2bn

Over 1.9 million people received an income from property in 2015-16, with the number...

Landbay sees lending volumes double in six months

Landbay has revealed that it has lent a total of £100 million to buy-to-let...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts all buy-to-let rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced all its buy-to-let rates by up to 0.10 percentage points. The...

New buy-to-let offering from Masthaven

Masthaven has launched a new buy-to-let mortgage range, which will initially be available exclusively...

Vida Homeloans makes criteria changes

Vida Homeloans has introduced a new maximum LTV of 90% for first time buyers, 100%...

Longer-term mortgages more popular than two-year deals

Paragon’s latest Financial Adviser Confidence Tracking Index report has found that the preference for longer-term...

InterBay Commercial joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added InterBay Commercial to its mortgage lender panel. Paradigm member firms...

HomeRenter unveils ratings and reviews service

HomeRenter, an online lettings platform, has launched a ratings and reviews service. It enables...

MFB launches offers landlords an EPC rating retriever

Mortgages for Business has launched an instant EPC rating retriever. It is designed for landlords...

BTL mortgage costs start to rise

The cost of most mainstream buy-to-let mortgages is starting to climb, with new data...

Newcastle Intermediaries joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Newcastle Intermediaries to its mortgage lender panel. Member firms of the...

OneSavings Bank revamps ICR requirements

OneSavings Bank has made changes to its interest coverage ratio (ICR) requirements for all...

Positive start to 2018 for Scottish rental market

Your Move has found that rents in Scotland continued to trend upwards in the...

Landbay launches new HMO range

Landbay has unveiled a new range of buy-to-let products, with a specific focus on...

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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...