Buy-to-let

Intermediary sentiment improving

Paragon Mortgages’ latest Financial Advisors Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index report has found an improvement...

Barclays simplifies BTL affordability assessment

Barclays has become the latest lender to respond to the Prudential Regulation Authority's (PRA) new...

8% fall in homeowner loans

  The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that homeowners borrowed £10.5bn for house purchase...

CML establishes profile and plans of landlords

In what it claims to be the largest survey to date of UK landlords,...

Landlords to ditch lettings agents if profits hit

47% of landlords say they would forego the services of their letting agent if...

Shawbrook Commercial cuts pricing

Shawbrook Bank has unveiled reduced rates of up to 1.06% on commercial products and...

Energy efficiency changes could “cripple the rental market”

Almost one in 10 properties currently available on the rental market could become unrentable by 2018...

L&G Mortgage Club offers new BTL matrix

Legal & General Mortgage Club has unveiled its new Rental Calculation Matrix. It has...

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...

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Portfolio landlords reshape buy-to-let market

Portfolio landlords are becoming increasingly central to the buy-to-let market as investors take a more structured approach to property ownership. The market has seen a...

Supporting complex cases in a modern mortgage market

In today’s diverse mortgage landscape, brokers are working with a growing number of clients whose circumstances fall outside traditional lending models. From self-employed professionals...

Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

The 4.3 million borrowers your pipeline is probably missing

There are 4.3 million self-employed workers in the UK and nearly one in five self-employed workers plans to buy a property in the next...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

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Japanese knotweed ‘knocks £21.4bn off UK housing market’

Japanese knotweed is wiping an estimated £21.4 billion from UK property values, with more...

Fleet Mortgages names new managing director

Fleet Mortgages has appointed Nicola Richardson as its new managing director. Richardson (pictured) has been...

The Monmouthshire goes live with Phoebus mortgage servicing system

Monmouthshire Building Society has gone live with Phoebus to support mortgage account servicing as...

NatWest completes first PEXA remortgage in two working days

NatWest has completed its first remortgage transaction through PEXA’s digital property completion platform within...