Buy-to-let

FHL: buy-to-let isn’t the bogeyman

Foundation Home Loans’ (FHL) has said that brokers should not to be put off by...

BoE and FPC to regulate buy-to-let

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has told a parliament committee that the...

InterBay Commercial unveils fixed rate range 

InterBay Commercial has launched new fixed rate mortgage range for buy-to-let lending. The new four...

Landbay: London a “victim of its own success”

Rents for one bedroom flats average over £1,000 a month in 73% of London...

The Mansfield reintroduces intermediary BTL range

The Mansfield Building Society has relaunched its buy-to-let mortgage range into the intermediary market. Products now...

2016 rollout for Right to Rent checks

The Home Office’s has published the timetable for Right to Rent checks as part of...

Aldermore offers its lowest ever five-year BTL fix

Aldermore has introduced a new limited edition buy-to let remortgage product, which is its...

New five-year deals from the Coventry

Coventry for intermediaries has added new deals to its five-year fixed residential and buy-to-let...

3mc trials FHL limited company deal

Packager and mortgage club 3mc is trialling Foundation Home Loans’ (FHL) new limited company...

Lack of joined-up policy making threatening PRS

A new report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has warned against discouraging...

Castle Trust unveils ‘refurb to let’ deal

Equity loan provider Castle Trust Capital has launched a 'refurb to let' product targeted on...

Why more brokers should be benefitting from specialist lending

The specialist lending sector is catering to more and more brokers but the question...

Virgin Money shakes up intermediary range

Virgin Money has made a number of changes to its residential mortgage range. It...

Average rents rising fastest in Westminster

Average rents for private properties increased faster in Westminster than anywhere else in England...

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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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Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...

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...