Buy-to-let

Rents at all time high

Rents across England and Wales rose last month by 4.6% compared to April 2014,...

Prestige Finance unveils new second charge BTL range

Prestige Finance has launched a new range of buy-to-let products for second charge lending. The new products...

HMOs: an evolving asset class

Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) are continuing to receive attention in the media thanks...

Aldermore celebrates sixth birthday

Aldermore is celebrating six years in business. The lender was founded during the economic downturn...

NACFB reveals Expo details

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has announced details of its sixth...

Accord reduces two-year BTL deals at 60% LTV

Accord Buy-To-Let has cut rates on its two-year fixed rate mortgages by 0.15 percentage points for borrowers...

InterBay improves BTL and commercial offering

Following feedback from its distributors, InterBay has made changes to its buy-to-let and commercial lending...

FTB loans down 5% year-on-year

Total number of loans advanced to first-time buyers in March was 23,000 - up 20%...

Rate reductions from Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has cut rates across its product range for individual landlords. The standard buy-to-let...

Paragon posts 8% rise in pre-tax profits

The Paragon Group of Companies has announces its half yearly results for the six months...

Complete FS reveals details of specialist lender event

Complete FS is inviting intermediaries across the South of England to meet with a...

Buy to Let Business grows office and staff

The Buy to Let Business and its mortgage club Buy to Let Club has...

Brokers bullish about BTL and new build

Intermediaries are confident about the the prospects of the buy-to-let and new build markets...

TSB Intermediary unveils initial BTL offering

TSB Intermediary is now providing buy-to-let mortgages.  This launch follows a pilot with London and Country. Initially,...

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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...