Buy-to-let

Why the long face?

One can’t help but come back to the market after the new year break...

Agents expect rent rises from stamp duty hike

Both supply and demand of available rental properties dropped in December, according to the Association...

Dudley introduces new buy-to-let deals

The Dudley Building Society has launched new buy-to-let products, with four discounted rate and four...

Colin Snowdon to join lender as MD

Colin Snowdon is to join Pepper Homeloans as its managing director on 1 February. In his...

Fleet Mortgages reveals first year lending stats

Fleet Mortgages has announced that £1.2 billion of business "flowed through its system" in its first...

Buy to Let Club panel expands

Virgin Money and Halifax have become the latest additions to the Buy to Let...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has cut the rates on its residential mortgages at 90% LTV and...

2015 was quickest year for rent rises since 2011

There was a 3.4% increase in rents across England and Wales during 2015, according to the latest...

Precise Mortgages unveils new MCD-compliant system

Precise Mortgages has released a Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) ready version of its online mortgage...

New buy-to-let deals from TSB

TSB Bank has launched two new mortgages for buy-to-let landlords looking to remortgage. Both deals are for...

PTFS joins Fleet Mortgages panel

Fleet Mortgages has announced the addition of adviser network, Personal Touch Financial Services, to its...

December lending up 23% year-on-year

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending totalled £19.9 billion...

Metro Bank refreshes offering

Metro Bank has revamped its residential and buy-to-let mortgage range, including a rate reduction of...

Conveyancing portal seeing major BTL activity

SortRefer, the conveyancing online portal, has seen a recent surge in requests for its buy-to-let remortgage conveyancing...
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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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First-time buyers

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...
Technology

Precise cuts residential mortgage offer times with new platform

Precise has launched a residential mortgage platform after a pilot reduced average application-to-offer times...
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Impaired credit mortgage sales rise to highest level since 2008

Mortgage lending to borrowers with impaired credit histories has climbed to levels not seen...
News

Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

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