Buy-to-let

Vida extends foreign national criteria across buy-to-let range

Vida Homeloans has widened its foreign national lending criteria across its entire buy-to-let range,...

Rely completes £2.1m buy-to-let refinance ahead of development loan deadline

Rely has completed a £2.1m buy-to-let refinance on a newly built four-home portfolio, securing...

Family boosts buy-to-let borrowing by up to 35%

Family Building Society has enhanced its buy-to-let affordability assessment, increasing potential borrowing by up...

Wealthy investors increase exposure to buy-to-let as tax allowances are exhausted

Affluent UK investors are allocating more capital to buy-to-let property once ISA and pension...

Landlords spending up to 10 working days a month managing portfolios

Landlords are committing the equivalent of almost four working days a month to managing...

Pepper Money trims buy-to-let rates by 0.50%

Pepper Money has reduced buy-to-let rates by 0.50% across its 70%, 75% and 80%...

The Marsden eases expat mortgage criteria with higher LTVs for flats

Marsden Building Society has widened its expat mortgage criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value ratios on...

Chetwood Bank hires Simon Parish as south east business development manager

Chetwood Bank has appointed Simon Parish as business development manager for the South East,...

Landbay adds five-year fixed cashback deals to Premier remortgage line-up

Landbay has introduced five five-year fixed-rate remortgage products within its Premier buy-to-let range, each...

Keystone’s latest rate reductions extend across new and existing business

Keystone Property Finance has introduced a further round of rate cuts across its new...

OSB Group appoints BDM for the South West and South Wales

OSB Group has appointed John Hoole as business development manager to support brokers across...

Virgin Money’s residential and buy-to-let ranges see rate cuts and rises

Virgin Money is implementing a series of rate reductions and increases across residential and...

Buy-to-let growth matches first-time buyers as demand holds

Buy-to-let lending is expanding at the same pace as first-time buyers and home movers,...

Professional landlords step up borrowing despite Renters’ Rights concerns

Professional landlords remain the principal source of buy-to-let borrowing and advice demand, even as...

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What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

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FCA bans former law firm manager over £28m client money case

The FCA has banned a former law firm manager from working in financial services...

National Friendly expands adviser proposition with term assurance launch

National Friendly has moved further into the protection market with the launch of Friendly...

Nationwide names Richard Walker to lead intermediary sales and new-build business

Nationwide has appointed Richard Walker as head of intermediary sales and new build, bringing...

Saffron says brokers should look beyond labels on complex mortgage cases

Borrowers with non-standard incomes, unusual properties or international circumstances should not automatically be treated...