Buy-to-let

Q4 rise in arrangement fee-free BTL product availability

The last three months of 2017 saw lenders absorbing more costs to keep their...

TMW unveils its first sub-2% five-year BTL fix

The Mortgage Works (TMW) is launching its lowest ever five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage...

Weaker December figures for mortgage lending

UK Finance has revealed that mortgage lending for first-time buyers, home movers and buy-to-let...

PMS and Sesame add Foundation Home Loans to panels

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network have added Foundation Home Loans to their respective...

Newcastle Intermediaries added to PTFS panel

Newcastle Intermediaries is joining Personal Touch Financial Solutions' lending panel. Newcastle Intermediaries offers a range of...

Keystone added to Brilliant Solutions’ panel

Keystone Property Finance has joined the mortgage panel of Brilliant Solutions. Brilliant Solutions members now...

LendInvest unveils product transition process

LendInvest has launched a new process for development finance borrowers to move easily between...

Hampshire Trust cuts BTL/HMO five-year rate

Hampshire Trust Bank’s commercial mortgages team has reduced its remortgage buy-to-let and house in...

Keystone hires business managers for the North

Keystone Property Finance has appointed Sara Finlay-Hudson and Gary Dean to its business development...

Majority of landlords shunned tax change advice

44% of landlords surveyed by Mortgages for Business plan to expand their portfolios before...

New further advance feature from Paragon

Paragon is offering a new further advance online facility, via a new portal available to...

London rents bounce back

The latest Landbay Rental Index has found that the average cost of renting a...

IMLA: buy-to-let under pressure

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has reported that net investment in buy-to-let property...

The Vernon BS partners with Sesame and PMS

The Vernon Building Society has partnered with the Sesame Network and PMS Mortgage Club. ...

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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...