Buy-to-let

Landlords not maintaining safety measures

AXA Business Insurance has researched the largest concerns of the 8.3 million residential tenants...

Citizens Advice welcomes tenant protection bill

Citizens Advice has has welcomed news that the government will support a Private Member's...

The Mansfield unveils trio of new BTL deals

The Mansfield Building Society has launched three new buy-to-let deals up to 70% loan...

Barclays cuts fixed rates

Barclays has become the latest lender to make changes to its mortgage range. It has...

Landlords continue to expand portfolios

The average size of landlords’ property portfolios has risen for the second successive quarter,...

Remortgaging continues to be muted

House purchase lending to home-buyers increased month-on-month in July totalling 67,700 loans, up 10%...

English rents almost total £2.7bn pcm

Landlords in England are witnessing a booming rental market, with earnings from rental payments...

CML to create buy-to-let statement of practice

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed it has been working on a...

Brokers expecting continued BTL growth

NatWest Intermediary Solutions research conducted amongst over 500 mortgage intermediaries found the majority had...

Growth predicted for ‘retirement lending’

'Enhanced' lifetime mortgage provider more 2 life is revamping its approach to underwriting its...

AMI concerned with Mortgage Directive implementation

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has provided its initial response to the Treasury's...

Government moves to regulate buy-to-let

The Treasury has launched a consultation on incorporating new European regulations on mortgage lending into...

TMA offers exclusive Virgin Money mortgages

Virgin Money has unveiled a new range of residential and buy-to-let mortgages available exclusively...

New seminar theatres for Financial Services Expo

Financial Services Expo (FSE) London has announced a range of new seminar theatres to...

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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...