Buy-to-let

New BTL fixes from BM Solutions

BM Solutions has introduced two new buy-to-let fixed rate products. Details are as follows: 1.45%...

TMA Club adds lender to panel

TMA Club has added Chorley Building Society to its lender panel. TMA’s members will now...

Foundation Home Loans unveils portfolio BTL cashback product

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new cashback buy-to-let product for portfolio landlords. The deal...

Buy to Let Club expands panel

Buy to Let Club has welcomed new panel members The Family Building Society and...

Accord reduces ICR for remortgaging landlords

Accord Buy To Let has reduced its minimum rental cover requirements for landlords wanting...

Scottish rental market ended 2017 with higher yields than UK

Your Move’s latest Scotland Rental Tracker has found that the Scottish rental market continued to...

LendInvest forms 200-strong buy-to-let broker panel

LendInvest has announced the formation of a national broker panel, comprising more than 200...

Vida moves into second charge market

Vida Homeloans is a piloting a second charge mortgage offering. It has a range of...

The Monmouthshire extends geographical lending area

The Monmouthshire Building Society is expanding its geographical lending area, in which residential mortgage...

Platform cuts fixed rates and changes criteria

Platform cut has rates on selected 90% LTV mortgages across two, three and five-year...

Ex-pat buy-to-let mortgages an opportunity for brokers 

Ex-pat mortgages were back in the news recently when challenger bank, Aldermore, launched a...

The Mansfield unveils Family Buy to Let deal at 100% ICR

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a new Family Buy to Let mortgage that enables...

Tenant demand at lowest level in five years

BM Solutions' latest quarterly index has revealed that landlord confidence ended 2017 low but relatively...

Kensington and New Street Mortgages launch in Scotland

Kensington and New Street Mortgages are launching in Scotland.  Initially this will be a limited...

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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...