Buy-to-let

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...

Landlord arrears half that of homeowners

UK homeowners are more than twice as likely as landlords to be in arrears,...

New deals from Barclays

Barclays has announced mortgage rate cuts along with the launch of some highly competitive...

London unaffordable for Generation Rent

Couples who are renting and wanting to start a family in London would need...

TBMC to offer Kensington deals

TBMC has appointed Kensington onto its lending panel. It will now offer all of Kensington’s...

Accord cuts BTL rates and removes processing fee

Accord Mortgages has made buy-to-let rate reductions of up to 0.20 percentage points. In addition, landlords will...

IMLA sees 2016 membership “surge”

Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) members have voted to retain the organisation’s chairman and...

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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...