Buy-to-let

Precise Mortgages’ MCD upgrade is completed

DPR Consulting has completed a systems upgrade for Precise Mortgages. The update provides compliance with...

Foundation Home Loans grows sales operation

Foundation Home Loans has appointed James Adkin to the position of regional account manager...

CML: gross lending to steadily increase over next 24 months

In December 2015 first-time buyers borrowed £4.5bn for home-owner house purchase, up 7% on...

21% don’t think they will ever be able to afford a home

A first time buyer buying their first house this year will have already spent £52,900...

Adviser confidence at highest levels since 2008

Confidence among financial advisers is at the highest levels seen since the onset of...

Residential property remains attractive investment opportunity

70% of owner managed businesses (OMB) believe that land allocated for residential property development...

RICS: buy-to-let investors pushing up house prices

RICS' latest UK Residential Market Survey has reported a rise in new instructions in...

Arrears and repossession levels still falling

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that fewer than one in 1,000...

Lending boosted by buy-to-let growth

Growth in buy-to-let mortgage approvals has taken home lending to its highest peak in...

Record results for Crystal Specialist Finance

Crystal Specialist Finance issued terms on over £1bn worth of business in 2015, a 62%...

Online legal platform for landlords introduced

Property lawyer Moore Blatch has launched an automated online platform aimed at buy-to-let landlords. It...

Buy-to-let in 2016 ‘all about location’

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has suggested that the challenge for landlords, following the introduction of...

Key marketing hire for crowdfunding platform

Property crowdfunding platform Property Partner has made a digital marketing appointment to increase its...

The Source introduces landlord GI incentive

Source Insurance is offering a commission incentive on all landlord GI new business that...

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Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...