Buy-to-let

Paragon revamps ‘professional’ offering

Paragon Mortgages has refreshed its product range catering for large-scale and professional landlords. The specialist...

The Hinckley & Rugby reduces selected rates

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has cut the rates on four discount mortgages, the...

Virgin Money improves rates

Virgin Money has made a series of changes across its residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

Sesame launches exclusive holiday let product

Sesame's network appointed representatives (ARs) now have access to a new holiday let...

Rent rises not keeping up with purchase prices

Increasing property prices are causing an about-turn in rental yields, according to the latest...

New member for the ASTL

Signature Private Finance has become the ASTL’s latest member. The firm offers a range of...

TMW unveils Let to Buy range

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has launched a new range of Let to Buy products. Let...

The Mansfield reiterates HTB support

In light of the Halifax and Nationwide limiting access to their Help to Buy...

Mortgage Trust unveils new buy-to-let products

Mortgage Trust has refreshed its range of two year fixed rates and tracker buy-to-let...

New buy-to-let deals from Accord

Accord Buy to Let has added new products for the buy-to-let mortgage market. The intermediary-only...

MMR: Good news for buy-to-let

Five years in the making, the Mortgage Market Review (MMR) has now come into...

Downward trend in voids

The average void period experienced by landlords has continued to fall, a survey by...

How’s the year been so far?

With the year nearly half over – if you don’t believe me check your...

Central Trust unveils buy-to-let proposition

Secured loans lender Central Trust has moved into the buy-to-let market. The Watford based lender...

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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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Government commits to licensing property agents but detail remains unclear

The government has committed to mandatory licensing and qualifications for property agents as part...

Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

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...