Buy-to-let

Booming property market in Edinburgh

Rental properties in Scotland continued to outperform expectations in October 2016, according to the...

Two new Privileged Partners for the Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has added two networks of mortgage brokers to...

Paragon changes affordability assessment

Paragon Mortgages is the latest lender to announce changes to its affordability assessment for...

Remortgaging powering mortgage activity

Remortgaging outperformed all other forms of mortgage market activity in November, according to the...

The Leeds latest to unveil new BTL criteria

The Leeds Building Society has announced new criteria following the PRA’s changes to underwriting...

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,...

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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...