Buy-to-let

FHL launches development team

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has established a sales development team under Paul Brett, director...

New Mortgage Trust range unveiled

Mortgage Trust has revamped its product range, updating its fixed rate products and introducing...

Paratus AMC gets servicer rating upgraded

Paratus AMC, which is the business behind new buy-to-let lender Foundation Home Loans, has...

TSB Intermediary unveils three-year BTL fixes

TSB Intermediary has expanding its buy-to-let offering to include three year fixed rate mortgages. It says...

New Loyalty Let to Buy scheme from the Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society is launching a new loyalty initiative for customers converting their...

Axis Bank completes first two buy-to-let deals

The first two buy-to-let mortgages completed by Axis Bank were both brought to the new...

Tenants want governmental representation

The latest First Time Buyer Opinion Barometer from Your Move and Reeds Rains has...

Private rented sector growing apace

British landlords saw total annual returns of £111.5bn in the last year, as the...

Intermediaries optimistic about BTL market

The majority of intermediaries are seeing stable or growing levels of demand from landlord...

London Q1 house purchase lending down 16%

Latest CML data on the characteristics of lending in Greater London in the first...

CMC adds Pepper Homeloans to lending panel

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has added Pepper Homeloans to its panel of mortgage lenders. Pepper...

Letting agents expect rents to rise following Tory win

32% of Association of Residential Lettings Agents (ARLA) members reported that rents increased in...

TSB expands following intermediary demand

TSB Bank has over the past month hired an extra 55 new Partners to...

TFC Homeloans to hold broker workshops

TFC Homeloans is holding two free specialist lending workshops aimed at advisers who want...

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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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Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

Complex income must not become barrier to Scottish homeownership

Mortgage lenders need to keep adapting their criteria as changing working patterns leave growing...

LiveMore raises LTV limits and adds flexibility to equity release overpayments

LiveMore has increased maximum LTVs on mortgages with a repayment element and introduced more...

Cost of collapsed property sales rises to £258m in second quarter

Failed property transactions cost the UK housing market an estimated £257.9m during the second...