Buy-to-let

‘Dramatic’ growth in rents on the cards?

Landbay has revealed that the 15 months since the Bank of England's Monetary Policy...

Accord Buy To Let updates house purchase range

Accord Mortgages is offering free standard valuation and up to £1,000 cashback on all...

Platform changes BTL interest cover ratio

Platform will now assess eligible buy-to-let remortgage applications, without additional borrowing, using a minimum of...

New holiday let product from Together

Together has created a new holiday let product in response to demand from professional...

The Hinckley & Rugby introduces lower BTL reference rate

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has introduced a new online buy-to-let calculator for...

North West is home to fastest rising rents in the UK

Your Move's England & Wales Buy to Let Index has found that most areas...

Metro Bank reduces BTL and residential rates

Metro Bank has made changes to both its residential and buy-to-let product ranges. Rates for...

Demand for rental accommodation up 10% month on month

ARLA Propertymark (Association of Residential Letting Agents) has reported that, after several months of...

New fixed rates from Paragon

Paragon has added four two-year fixed Portfolio products to its buy-to-let range. Rates start...

Gross mortgage lending up 5% year-on-year

UK Finance has estimated that gross mortgage lending in September was £21.4 billion, 5%...

Connect for Intermediaries adds State Bank of India to panel

State Bank of India has joined Connect for Intermediaries' network panel. The panel has also...

TBMC launches 1.99% BTL exclusive

TBMC has launched a new buy-to-let mortgage exclusive with Hinckley & Rugby Building Society....

Crowdfunder launches buy-to-let alternative

Investment platform MercyCrowd has has designed an 'equity only' model designed to help shield...

Why we’re not writing off the buy-to-let sector

To the outside observer, the buy-to-let sector might well look like it is 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...