Buy-to-let

Together saves client with two-day turnaround

Together has revealed that it worked with partners Crystal Specialist Finance and Priority Law...

Paradigm reveals lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the second yearly winners and runners-up from its Lender and Provider...

BTL purchases to outstrip remortgages this quarter?

The latest Complex Buy-to-Let Index from Mortgages for Business has found that last year...

Fleet Mortgages ‘tidies up’ offering

Fleet Mortgages has made changes to its product range. Key changes to the range include price...

Mortgage Trust revamps BTL proposition

Mortgage Trust has introduced a new buy-to-let mortgage range offering two, three and five-year...

The changing face of specialist lending in 2016

According to recent estimates, the mortgage market will reach £230 billion by the end...

FHL sees ‘substantial’ growth in limited company BTL enquiries

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has reported that, since launching with pricing for its limited...

Kensington parent rebrands

Kensington Group Limited (KGL) has rebranded to become The Northview Group Limited. This follows the...

Aldermore reduces limited company BTL rates

Aldermore has cut rates on its range of specialist limited company (single residential unit) buy-to-let products. The...

14% rise in number of tenants with serious arrears

There was a 13.8% quarterly increase in the number of tenants seriously behind on...

Sharp rise in limited company BTL transactions

There was a significant rise in activity from investors looking for finance using a limited...

Keystone improves Classic Range criteria

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has made two major changes to its Classic Range lending criteria...

New BDMs for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has expanded its sales team with the addition of two further field-based business...

Colin Bell joins Hampshire Trust to spearhead commercial launch

Colin Bell has become managing director of commercial mortgages at Hampshire Trust Bank. He has...

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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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Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

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...

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...