Buy-to-let

Buy-to-let ‘gained chokehold’ over first-time buyers

The proportion of buy-to-let mortgage enquiries on Comparethemarket.com grew by 4.4% to 18.2% during...

Warning sounded over pension withdrawal for property investment

Portal Financial has revealed a significant increase in enquiries from people looking to access their...

Average length of time in PRS rises to 14 years

A survey of more than 800 Private Rented Sector (PRS) tenants has found high...

Brokers need to keep generating new business

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has warned that brokers could find themselves short of new business now...

Pre-Stamp Duty surcharge stampede for completions

Last month saw the number of buy-to-let valuations carried out ridse by 34% compared to...

CHL targets ‘mid-year’ return to BTL lending

CHL Mortgages is to return to lending under the CHL for Intermediaries brand. In a...

20% annual rise in gross purchase advances

The Bank of England says the proportion of lending for house purchase in the...

Broker Conveyancing reports strong start to 2016

Broker Conveyancing has revealed that its total number of sale instructions combined for January and...

New deal seeks to improve property inventory submission

The Deposit Protection Service (the DPS) has said that its new agreement with Imfuna...

Eviction rates fall following healthier tenant finances

The latest Tenant Arrears Tracker by estate agency chains Your Move and Reeds Rains has found that...

Fleet to expand lending proposition

Fleet Mortgages has made the first in a series of product and criteria changes that will...

BTL brokers remain positive despite tax changes

56% of Shawbrook Bank clients are planning on purchasing a buy-to-let property within the...

Property Partner secures new investment

Property crowdfunding platform Property Partner has announced the successful completion of a £15.9m funding round. It...

Older people buying to let to retire

Research from Prudential has identified a trend of ‘buy-to-let-to-retire’ among older people. 20% over-55s...
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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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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...
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Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...
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Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...
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Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...