Buy-to-let

Steady rise in landlord confidence

Landlords continue to remain positive about the buy-to-let market, Paragon Mortgages has said. The specialist...

TBMC launches 2.75% lifetime discount deal

TBMC has launched a new exclusive buy-to-let mortgage with Hanley Economic Building Society. The...

Shawbrook appoints new Strategic Partner

Shawbrook Bank has appointed Commercial Mortgage Desk (CMD) to its Strategic Partner programme. With...

New deals from Coventry Intermediaries

Coventry Intermediaries has launched new residential and buy-to-let products including new Flexx for Term...

Keystone cuts buy-to-let rates

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has cut its fixed rate prices two months after...

SFI changes BTL offering

Santander for Intermediaries (SFI) has unveiled a new 75% LTV, five-year fixed rate buy-to-let...

41% year-on-year rise in FTB loans

A dip in mortgage lending in February was primarily due to the expected seasonal...

The savvy are making the most of specialist buy-to-lets

Anyone who regularly casts their eyes over a newspaper will have noticed the increased...

Acceleration in buy-to-let remortgaging

Remortgaging now represents the greatest proportion of landlords’ mortgage activity since Q2 2013, according...

Wages to overtake rents this year

Rent rises will be overtaken by wage growth in 2014, while disposable income for...

Expats looking at buy-to-let

New research from Lloyds Bank has revealed a strong appetite for property among British...

Tenant arrears situation improving

Tenants struggling with late rent have made significant progress in the last 12 months,...

SFI unveils criteria for self-employed BTL

Santander for Intermediaries (SFI) will next week open its buy-to-let criteria to self-employed applicants...

New BTL deal from the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has launched its latest buy-to-let product, a two-year discounted deal....

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Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Closing the protection gap starts with informed clients

Millions of people have no protection insurance coverage and could be left vulnerable in the event of a death in the family, serious illness...

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...

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Building safety remediation list grows ahead of new developer levy

The number of residential buildings being monitored under government cladding remediation programmes has risen...

Conveyancer numbers fall 15% as firms face mounting workload pressures

The conveyancing workforce in England and Wales has contracted by 15% in little more...

Lendlord adds free rent increase notice tool for landlords

Lendlord has introduced a free tool designed to help landlords prepare the Form 4A...

LendInvest and MDA flag development finance risks from Building Safety Levy

LendInvest and MDA Consulting have published guidance for property lenders and developers ahead of...