Buy-to-let

Connect Mortgage Club unveils buy-to-let service

Connect Mortgage Club is offering a new wide-ranging buy-to-let package for brokers. The specialist intermediary...

Complex buy-to-let outperforms vanilla market

Yields on 'complex buy-to-let' property reached their highest level in the second quarter of...

New buy-to-let deals from the Coventry

Coventry Intermediaries is unveiling a new range of 75% LTV buy-to-let products on 13...

AToM offers new Precise Mortgages range

All Types of Mortgages Ltd (AToM) is the latest distributor to offer new products...

New Precise deals from Brightstar Financial

Brightstar Financial is offering a range of buy-to-let and 'near prime' products funded by...

Widespread withholding of rental deposits continues

Tenants have lost out on £1.1 billion in the past three years because of...

Mortgage market “tightening”: Connells

The mortgage market is expanding at its slowest annual rate in two years, according...

Increase in ‘severe’ arrears among tenant community

There was an 8% rise in the number of tenants in severe financial difficulty...

Buy-to-let: a golden opportunity for brokers

Buy-to-let expansion won’t be a flash in the pan, writes David Brown, commercial director...

Crystal offers its lowest rate for buy-to-let yet

Crystal Mortgages has unveiled its lowest buy-to-let rate at 2.44% above the Bank of...

New buy-to-let fixes from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has added a 5.99% three-year fixed rate deal to its...

Professional landlords see rise in yields

Landlords achieved an average yield of 6.5% during the second quarter of 2011, according...

“Unregulated” attitude to buy-to-let sales is wearing thin

The recent announcement by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) that it expects bridging lenders...

Cost of renting continues to rise

Property website Zoopla.co.uk has claimed that the cost of home ownership is cheaper than...

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The nightmare of UK homebuying needs reform

House sellers will be forced to disclose problems with their homes before sale under plans by the Government to cut costs for buyers and...

Goldilocks and the three bear markets

Are you familiar with C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) or you might know it by its nickname 3I/ATLAS? Whatever you want to call it,  it is currently...

Mark Bogard on policy, politics and the future of advice

When Mark Bogard, Chief Executive of Family Building Society, talks about Britain’s housing policy, he is unsparing in his assessment: short-termism, revolving-door ministers and...

Finding efficiency will keep branches as the beating heart of mutual sector

Whether you speak to customers or building societies, they will tell you just how important branches are – even as financial services and wider...

Mortgages, mutuality, members and making a difference

Anyone working in the mortgage market knows that a key area of our measurement is sales. How many cases we complete, the value of...

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Rosemount adds April Mortgages to lender panel

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has added April Mortgages to its lender panel, giving network...

Aspen completes 10-day £700k bridge using new dual representation service

Aspen Bridging has completed its first transactions under a new dual representation legal service...

Rising sick leave issues as long-term absence costs top £2k per worker

The majority of UK businesses are increasingly anxious about the impact of sickness absence...

Movera strengthens people and culture team with two senior appointments

Home moving brand Movera has expanded its human resources leadership team with two new...