Buy-to-let

CML: January lending up 201% year-on-year

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending totalled £17.9 billion...

Stamp duty hike putting off BTL investors

9% of UK adults who were considering a buy-to-let property investment have been put...

Precise Mortgages’ MCD upgrade is completed

DPR Consulting has completed a systems upgrade for Precise Mortgages. The update provides compliance with...

Foundation Home Loans grows sales operation

Foundation Home Loans has appointed James Adkin to the position of regional account manager...

CML: gross lending to steadily increase over next 24 months

In December 2015 first-time buyers borrowed £4.5bn for home-owner house purchase, up 7% on...

21% don’t think they will ever be able to afford a home

A first time buyer buying their first house this year will have already spent £52,900...

Adviser confidence at highest levels since 2008

Confidence among financial advisers is at the highest levels seen since the onset of...

Residential property remains attractive investment opportunity

70% of owner managed businesses (OMB) believe that land allocated for residential property development...

RICS: buy-to-let investors pushing up house prices

RICS' latest UK Residential Market Survey has reported a rise in new instructions in...

Arrears and repossession levels still falling

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that fewer than one in 1,000...

Lending boosted by buy-to-let growth

Growth in buy-to-let mortgage approvals has taken home lending to its highest peak in...

Record results for Crystal Specialist Finance

Crystal Specialist Finance issued terms on over £1bn worth of business in 2015, a 62%...

Online legal platform for landlords introduced

Property lawyer Moore Blatch has launched an automated online platform aimed at buy-to-let landlords. It...

Buy-to-let in 2016 ‘all about location’

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has suggested that the challenge for landlords, following the introduction 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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Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...
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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...