Buy-to-let

Axis Bank partners with Connells

Axis Bank UK has appointed Connells Survey & Valuation as its valuation panel manager...

The Nottingham refreshes its buy-to-let offering

The Nottingham Building Society has revamped its buy-to-let range with the introduction of six...

Dragonfly overhauls resi refurb offering

Dragonfly Property Finance has revamped its residential refurbishment products. Previously, Dragonfly’s refurbishment loans were capped...

Landlords looking for a semi

In the first quarter of 2015 there was a marked increase in the number...

Brilliant Solutions appoints intermediary sales head

Brilliant Solutions has announced the expansion of its broker support team with two appointments...

NatWest IS shakes up buy-to-let offering

NatWest Intermediary Solutions will be introducing a number of new 70% buy-to-let mortgages for...

April activity up despite general election uncertainty

Housing market activity in April was stronger across the board than at the same...

FSE Manchester reveals Academy seminar details

Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester has announced the line-up for the Shawbrook Bank Academy...

Quarter of wannabe landlords ignorant about financing

28% of would-be landlords considering buy-to-let to boost their retirement income do not know...

Beyond good and evil

Make no bones about it this is an incredibly important week for the private...

Exodus of Scottish landlords predicted

New research suggests there will be an exodus of landlords from the Scottish private...

Buy-to-let trackers getting more expensive

The latest Buy to Let Costs Index from Mortgages for Business has found that...

Large rise in ‘prime London’ FTB sales

Marsh & Parsons’ latest London Property Monitor has found that while investors continue to...

Brightstar makes specialist appointment

Brightstar has appointed Brian Hayes, a former IFA, to provide advice and guidance to...

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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...