Buy-to-let

Aldermore cans planned flotation

Aldermore Bank has announced the cancellation of its planned initial public offering (IPO). The challenger...

‘First’ peer-to-peer tracker product unveiled

Landbay, a recent entrant to the peer-to-peer (p2p) lending market, has launched two new...

Average yields down for standard buy-to-lets

Rental yields on 'vanilla' buy-to-let properties are falling, according to the latest Mortgages for...

Fleet Mortgages reveals servicing partner

Fleet Mortgages has chosen DPR Consulting to provide its full end-to-end mortgage servicing solution. ...

Monthly lending decline for FTBs

Total gross lending in August was £18.1 billion, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)...

Keystone reveals rate cuts

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has re-priced its Premier and Classic term tracker rates....

The Leeds cuts BTL discount rate

The Leeds Building Society its reducing the two year, discount buy-to-let, fees assisted deal by...

Barclays re-vamps buy-to-let proposition

Barclays is making to its buy-to-let mortgage range. Barclays has announced 'Switch & Save' benefits...

LMS partners with Accord Buy to Let

Conveyancing panel management specialists LMS has embarked upon a partnership with Accord Buy to...

New buy-to-let range from Keystone

Keystone has launched a new product range created for landlords who are still struggling...

Landlords witnessing higher BTL payments

Landlords expect rent rises to slow over the next 12 months to below the...

New deals from Post Office Mortgages

Post Office has broadened its mortgage offfering to include new buy-to-let and residential mortgage...

Fleet Mortgages’ SMT revealed

Fleet Mortgages has announced the make-up of its senior management team. The new buy-to-let...

FSE: expect full buy-to-let regulation

The mortgage market should prepare itself for the full regulation of the buy-to-let market...

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The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

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...

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SortRefer expands faster conveyancing service after pilot cuts completion times

SortRefer has rolled out its Enhanced conveyancing service to all registered brokers after a...

Octane revives specialist buy-to-let range with loans up to £15m

Octane Capital has returned to the specialist buy-to-let market with a range offering loans...

Student loan repayments squeeze first-time buyer deposit savings

More than 1.5 million young adults believe student loan repayments are making it harder...

The Exeter moves Woodley into healthcare development role

The Exeter has appointed Karen Woodley as head of healthcare development, giving her responsibility...