Buy-to-let

7% rise in tenants in serious arrears

There has been an annual rise in the number of tenants falling into serious...

Fleet Mortgages now open for business

Fleet Mortgages is now actively accepting business through its distributor partners and their affiliated...

The Leeds lifts booking fee

The Leeds Building Society has removed the £199 booking fee from across its entire...

November sees monthly fall in rents

For the first time in eight months rents have fallen on a monthly basis,...

New Year proc fee rise from Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has announced a increase in procuration fees across its residential mortgage range. The...

Vantage unveils specialist packaging division

Vantage Finance has introduced a new packaging division which will offer intermediaries specialist...

P2P will redistribute the profits of buy-to-let

The mortgage industry is going to be 'revolutionised' by peer-to-peer finance, starting with secured...

Connect Mortgage Club to offer second charge BTL

Connect Mortgage Club has added secured loans master broker The Loans Engine to its...

TBMC unveils exclusive buy-to-let two-year fixes

TBMC has launched two new exclusive buy-to-let products with the Skipton Building Society. The products...

BTL sector will continue to grow in 2015

Confidence in the health of the buy-to-let market will encourage significant investment in the...

Landlords prefer intermediary distribution

Paragon Mortgages' latest landlord research has found that landlords prefer to source buy-to-let finance...

Landlords – a target for 2015

It seems there is no slowing of the growth in the residential private rental...

CML: positive direction of travel for mortgage market

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has confirmed that gross mortgage lending reached £18.6...

Metro Bank unveils portfolio BTL offering

Metro Bank has launched a new portfolio buy-to-let proposition. Customers will now be able to...

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Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

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Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage...

First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...

Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...