Buy-to-let

Paradigm expands mortgage lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Vida Homeloans to its lender panel. All Paradigm advisers and...

Trio joins Complete FS

Complete FS has announced the arrival of three new members of staff to its...

New BTL exclusive from 3mc

Mortgage distributor 3mc has launched an exclusive buy-to-let mortgage deal funded by Precise Mortgages,...

Landlords continuing to see strong rental demand

Paragon Mortgages has revealed that tenant demand for private rented accommodation is continuing to...

Nationwide & TMW latest to reward retention

The Nationwide Building Society is to pay mortgage brokers a procuration fee for retention business.  The...

The Hinckley & Rugby cuts fixed and BTL rates

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has cut the interest rates on its two-year...

Pepper mortgages available to Tenet members

Pepper Homeloans has teamed up with Tenet Group to make its specialist mortgages available via...

Landlord pessimism grows

Paragon Mortgages has reported a modest improvement in optimism among landlords as they begin to...

New broker portal for Paragon

BEP Systems has helped Paragon Group implement a new broker portal platform. The portal is based...

Kensington launches sub-3% rates

Kensington Mortgages has made rate changes across its residential and buy-to-let products, including a 2.99%...

Strong end to the year for mortgage market

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that homeowner house purchase lending totalled...

BTL market starting to stabilise?

Mortgage Brain has stated that the cost of buy-to-let mortgages remain at record lows...

Vida changes buy-to-let offering

Vida Homeloans has altered its buy-to-let proposition, following the introduction of new underwriting standards by...

Pepper added to TMA lender panel

Pepper Homeloans is to market its specialist mortgages via The Mortgage Alliance (TMA).  TMA’s brokers will...

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Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

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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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...

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...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

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

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

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