Buy-to-let

The Leeds changes tenancy criteria

The Leeds Building Society will now accept tenancy agreements for a period to suit...

New 3.29% five-year BTL from the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has unveiled a five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage at 3.29%.  It...

Property market contracting pre-Brexit

In July, house prices rose by £700, or 0.2%, to an average £293,318, according...

FTBs continuing to drive house purchase lending

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that in June, home-owners borrowed £12.3bn...

Good July for first-time buyers

Housing market activity has moved in favour of first-time buyers and remortgagors, in the...

Accord reduces buy-to-let fixed rates

Accord has cut rates across its two, three and five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages...

Precise cuts HMO and Ltd Co BTL rates

Precise Mortgages has made changes to its buy-to-let product range. HMO rates are being...

Sales promotion at Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has appointed Ian Hawes as a new internal sales team leader. Hawes (pictured) has been...

Complete FS responds to distribution appointment

A director at Complete FS, the South Coast based specialist lending packager, has expressed...

Stonebridge Group unveils packager panel

Stonebridge Group has introduced a new mortgage packager panel for its appointed representative (AR)...

HMRC reveals post-surcharge Stamp Duty figures

HMRC quarterly stamp duty statistics to June 2016, has revealed that the provisional non-seasonally...

Top districts for rental yield voted for Brexit

Only two of the top 20 local authority districts for rental yield voted to...

No Brexit effect on rental market – yet

The Association of Residential Letting Agents' (ARLA) June Private Rental Sector (PRS) report has...

Focus on the here and now

Understandably a large part of the mortgage market appears to be taking stock of...

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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...