Buy-to-let

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...

Remortgaging powering mortgage activity

Remortgaging outperformed all other forms of mortgage market activity in November, according to the...

The Leeds latest to unveil new BTL criteria

The Leeds Building Society has announced new criteria following the PRA’s changes to underwriting...

Dudley BTL exclusives for TBMC

TBMC has unveiled two new buy-to-let exclusives with the Dudley Building Society. Both products are...

Trio of new Fleet Mortgages’ corporate structure deals

Fleet Mortgages has introduced three new limited company products for those borrowers using corporate...

Pepper adds TBMC to distributor panel

Pepper Homeloans, which has been extending its distribution during 2016, is now including the buy-to-let specialist, TBMC,...

Confidence returning as landlords react to changes

The latest Buy to Let Britain report from Kent Reliance has revealed that landlord confidence...

£1bn in mortgages reached by Skipton International

Skipton International has reached £1 billion of mortgage loans across the Channel Islands and...

Remember: the BTL market isn’t dead

At the moment it feels very easy to talk about the interventionist measures in...

Coventry for Intermediaries announces new BTL stress rates

Coventry for Intermediaries is increasing its buy-to-let reference rate to 5.5% on loans with...

Storm Angus behind BTL insurance claim spike

Buy-to-let specialist insurer Simple Landlords has reported a surge in calls from landlords whose...

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Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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Gen H expands into Scotland with affordability-led income booster

Residential mortgage lender Gen H has launched in Scotland, extending its lending proposition north...

Landlord optimism rises as confidence returns to the private rented sector

New research suggests sentiment among landlords has improved sharply over the past year, despite...

Mortgage Brain continues hub rollout with Mortgage Force and Affinity onboarding

Mortgage Brain has completed the onboarding of Mortgage Force and Affinity Group onto its...

Together expands intermediary sales team with two senior appointments

Together has strengthened its intermediary division with the appointment of two experienced industry figures,...