Buy-to-let

TFC Homeloans add Castle Trust to panel

Castle Trust has been appointed to TFC Homeloans’ lender panel. It will offer its range...

Average Scottish rents up 1.1% year-on-year

Scottish rents are rising at their slowest pace for over two years, according to...

Latest Paragon securitisation includes Euro tranche

The Paragon Group has completed its latest securitisation. Paragon Mortgages No.22 (PM22) is the fifth...

Over 300 firms signed up for London landlord accreditation

Over 115,000 rented homes across London are now badged under the Mayor's London Rental Standard, the capital's...

No let up in rental demand

31% of Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) letting agents reported a rise in...

Crystal Mortgages moves into seconds

Commercial mortgage finance and bridging loan firm Crystal Mortgages is branching out into the...

Sesame joins Fleet Mortgages’ panel

Fleet Mortgages has added adviser network, Sesame, to its distribution panel. Sesame becomes the...

Voids at lowest level for 13 years

The average annual void period has dropped to its lowest level since 2002, according...

Not all new lenders are the same

I expect a large number of advisers are thinking that new buy-to-let lenders are...

Northern landlords enjoy highest yields and lowest deposits

Renters in Yorkshire and the Humber pay the lowest rents in the country, at...

Average rents up over 3%

The average rent across England and Wales is 3.1% higher than February 2014, the...

Budget 2015: annuity rules relaxed

As widely expected, the Chancellor signalled that up to five million existing pensioners will...

CML: FTB lending down but rise in buy-to-let

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that first-time buyers saw a drop in...

Paradigm added to Fleet Mortgages’ panel

Fleet Mortgages has added Paradigm Mortgage Services to its distribution panel.  Member firms of Paradigm...
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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,...
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Complex income must not become barrier to Scottish homeownership

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