Buy-to-let

Duo joins Complete FS

Complete FS has appointed two new members of staff to its broker facing teams. Davinia...

Average rents rose 3.5% outside London

HomeLet's Rental Index for October 2015 has reported that when London is excluded, the...

Autumn Statement & Spending Review: buy-to-let

George Osborne has announced that higher rates of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) will...

Autumn Statement & Spending Review: speech in full

Mr Speaker, this Spending Review delivers on the commitment we made to the British...

Scottish rents take a breather

The latest Scotland Buy-to-Let Index from Your Move has found that Scottish rents are...

Roma Finance rebridges BTL landlord

Roma Finance has lent £400,000 over six months with a five-day completion to a...

More BTL landlords looking for deals on cheaper properties

Increasing numbers of buy-to-let landlords are looking for mortgages on cheaper valued properties, according...

Paragon posts 10% rise in profits

The Paragon Group of Companies has reported a 10.2% increase in underlying profit for...

Landbay partners with My Home Move

Peer-to-peer lender Landbay has announced a new partnership with My Home Move. My Home Move...

Some pre-Xmas relief for tenants

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has claimed that fewer tenants are experiencing...

Positive times ahead for buy-to-let

Perhaps understandably, given the level of scrutiny the buy-to-let market faces today, the latest...

1.2% month-on-month fall in rents

Rents across England and Wales have fallen between September and October, according to the...

The Nationwide increases its first-time buyer numbers

The Nationwide Building Society helped 25,700 first time buyers onto the property ladder during...

Virgin Money unveils new BTL exclusives

Virgin Money has made changes to its mortgage range, including the launch of a...

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Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

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...

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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...