Buy-to-let

BTL conveyancing quotes rise for SortRefer

Broker referral portal SortRefer has seen a 53% increase in the number of standard...

Landlords looking to invest pensions lump sum in property

The latest BM Solutions buy-to-let quarterly index has revealed 26% of landlords would consider...

Landlords overlooking running costs when calculating returns

UK landlords could be overestimating the profitability of their buy-to-let investment due to them...

Landlords expect tailing off in rental rises

Landlords believe increases in rent will taper off over the next 12 months, according...

ARLA: PRS supply affected by upcoming election

72% of letting agents believe that the Labour Party’s proposed three-year tenancies, with a...

March was best month for intermediaries in eight years

Buy-to-let lending in the first quarter of 2015 increased by almost 20% year-on-year, outpacing residential lending which...

New buy-to-let trackers from Accord

Accord Buy-To-Let has launched three new two-year fixed rate tracker mortgages for landlords with a...

Landlords increasingly opting for longer term fixed rates

Intermediaries are writing more mortgage business with longer-term initial rates, Paragon Mortgages has claimed. The results...

Paradigm announces lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed the first 2015 quarterly winners of its lender and provider awards. The...

Precise hires pair of national sales managers

Precise Mortgages has expanded its sales team with the recruitment of two senior sales...

Labour to announce FTB and rent control initiatives

Ed Miliband will today outline Labour's pledge to scrap stamp duty for first-time buyer...

BM Solutions cuts two, three and five year rates

BM Solutions has reduced rates across its two, three, and five year buy-to-let and...

SJW Property Finance beats first year targets

Manchester-based property firm SJW Property Finance says its first year of trading has exceeded...

Paradigm accesses adverse BTL deals from Precise Mortgages

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced its members now have exclusive access to two buy-to-let...

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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...