Buy-to-let

Colin Bell joins Hampshire Trust to spearhead commercial launch

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

Keystone sets Classic Range app cut-off date

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages is to prioritise Classic Range purchase applications that are...

TFC offers free legals on Precise deals

TFC is rolling out its ‘free legals’ offer on Precise Mortgages deals to all brokers,...

TFC teams up with the National Counties

TFC Homeloans has joined forces with National Counties Building Society, adding the mutual to its...

Further curb on buy-to-let signalled

George Osborne has given the go-ahead for the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee to restrict...

Rents cooling in run-up to Christmas

Rents across England and Wales have fallen below the £800 mark, according to the...

New two-year fixes from Accord Buy to Let

Accord Buy to Let has unveiled a range of short-term fixed rate mortgages for...

Average London house price of £931k in 2025 predicted

Rents are set to increase dramatically and buying a house is getting further out of...

Average time spent in PRS is 12 years

Satisfaction levels remain high among tenants in the private rented sector (PRS), according to...

FHL revamps BTL and adds new limited company option

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has announced plans to simplify its buy-to-let product range. It is...

Landlord confidence takes a hit

41% of landlords have reported seeing an increase in tenant demand over the last...

CML: 9% month-on-month rise in homemover loans

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that first-time buyers borrowed £4.6bn for...

New Paragon offering for professional landlords

Paragon Mortgages has introduced a new range of fixed rate and tracker products with...

Lowest seasonal dip in house prices for nine years

Rightmove has reported a seasonal 1.1% (-£3,120) dip in the price of property coming...

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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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Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...

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...