Buy-to-let

SFI changes mortgage pricing

Santander for Intermediaries (SFI) is making increases to a small number of products. The changes...

Fleet Mortgages expands distribution

Directly authorised (DA) members of Legal & General Mortgage Club will have now have...

Landbay in transparency push

Peer to peer lending platform Landbay is to share publicly a range of new...

New BTL deals for Scotland from Mortgage Trust

Mortgage Trust has made a range of products available for investors in the Private...

Landlord borrowers have almost £100k in equity

Mortgage Advice Bureau believes that equity gains from rising house prices are helping borrowers...

Private rental property numbers to double over next 20 years

Even if house prices were to remain the same as they are today, the...

Landbay bolsters board

Landbay has appointed Robert Burgess to its board of directors. He will join co-founders...

Rents rise in Scotland at half the pace of England & Wales

Rents have risen in Scotland at only half the pace of growth seen across...

New products, reduced rates and fees from Kent Reliance

Kent Reliance has overhauled its mortgage range. It has launched new five-year fixed rate products,...

Foundation Home Loans launches into buy-to-let market

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has unveiled its buy-to-let proposition today. It will be distributed exclusively through the intermediary...

Buy-to-let boom predicted for 2015

Complete FS believes 2015 will be a bumper year for the buy-to-let market. The the...

ARLA: demand for rental property on the rise

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has pubished the first of its new...

First distributor for Foundation Home Loans revealed

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has added Foundation Home Loans (FHL) to its panel of...

TRM partners with Crystal Mortgages

New broker network, The Right Mortgage and Protection (TRM), has entered into a preferred...

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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...