Buy-to-let

Newcastle Intermediaries improves buy-to-let criteria

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced the minimum income requirement for joint buy-to-let properties from £40,000...

New BTL deals from the Leeds BS

The Leeds Building Society has changed its buy-to-let mortgage offering and has launched a five year tracker with...

Landlords favouring five year fixed rates

While most landlords have been affected by recent and ongoing restrictions to income tax relief...

London main driver of rental slowdown

Landbay's latest Rental Index has reported that UK rents grew by just 0.02% in...

Increase in availability of specialist mortgages

The first quarter of the year saw demand for specialist mortgages rise, according to...

Vida Homeloans unveils 2.69% fixed rate

Vida Homeloans has announced a new 'Limited Edition' range of residential and buy-to-let mortgages...

Platform cuts rates on buy-to-let

Platform has cut a number of select fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage interest rates by up...

Boost for successful FTB applications

67% of first-time buyers’ mortgage applications made via intermediaries resulted in completions during the...

Metro Bank buys £600m mortgage book

Metro Bank has completed the purchase of a portfolio of UK mortgages from Cerberus...

Five-year fixes grow in popularity

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

Liverpool is top BTL hotspot

Liverpool is the UK’s number one buy-to-let hotspot, offering rental yields of 8.0% once...

Average tenancy deposits remain just below £1k

Average tenancy deposits for England and Wales remain just below £1,000 according to figures...

Expect more intervention after the election

At the time of writing, there is plenty of activity on social media about...

Fall in cost of buy-to-let mortgages

Mortgage Brain’s latest buy-to-let product data analysis show that the cost of a three...
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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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Buy-to-let

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...
News

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...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...
funding

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...