Buy-to-let

Focussing on the professionals

In our market, experience counts for a lot. When we were setting up Fleet...

Accord Buy-to-Let cuts fixed rates

Accord Buy-To-Let has cut rates on its five-year fixed rate mortgages by up to...

New buy-to-let fixes from the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society has launched a new range of fixed rate buy-to-let products....

Fleet Mortgages to use Lender Exchange

Fleet Mortgages is to launch with Lender Exchange, the secure portal for law firms,...

The Bucks teams up with Vantage

Vantage Finance has added Buckinghamshire Building Society to its newly launched specialist mortgage packaging...

Keystone ups Solutions proc fees to 1%

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has increased the procuration fees on its Solutions Range...

Large growth in buy-to-let product numbers

The buy-to-let mortgage market has seen increased competition with more products as well as...

Santander reduces rates and increases large loan ceiling

Santander has cut mortgage rates and introduced new loyalty deals. Buy-to-let rates now start from...

Large fall in mortgage rates last year, says Mortgage Brain

Mortgage Brain has claimed that its quarterly product data analysis show that some mortgage...

New BTL exclusives for TBMC

TBMC has launched three new buy-to-let mortgages with Hanley Economic Building Society, none of...

HMOs: licensing requirements

Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) have become popular with investors largely because of the...

Keystone Buy to Let improves criteria

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has made four changes to its lending criteria in...

Landlord Centre teams up with the Hanley Economic

Landlord Centre has launched three new arrangement fee-free buy-to-let mortgages with Hanley Economic Building...

25 on Openwork’s new mortgage panel

Openwork has revealed the makeup of its new mortgage panel. In the last quarter of...

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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...