Buy-to-let

The Teachers broadens its offering

The Teachers Building Society has launched two new deals and lowered the rate on...

CML reports seasonal dip on lending

The total number of home-owner loans for house purchase in January 2014 was down...

NatWest seeks to increase buy-to-let presence with new range

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has launched a pair of new five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages...

Void periods becoming less frequent for landlords

Research commissioned by Paragon Mortgages has found that landlords are seeing that the incidence...

David Copland heads up new packager

LSL Property Services has launched a new packager. The Mortgage Processing Centre will be...

Six year high for FTB lending

Lending to first-time buyers in the final quarter of 2013 was at its highest...

Connect Mortgage Club launches new broker website

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has relaunched its website with improved features for brokers.   The site...

Shawbrook unveils new larger loans

Shawbrook’s commercial mortgages division is launching a dedicated range of larger loans products. The new...

CMC offers new Precise BTL deals

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has launched new buy-to-let products through its partnership with Precise...

Registration open for Financial Services Expo Manchester

Front Events has revealed that visitor registration for May’s Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester...

Shawbrook Bank adds new products for property professionals

Shawbrook Bank is launching two new products for property professionals to make the...

Landlords banking on property for retirement income

Over 40% of landlords are putting their trust wholly in property as their means...

City of London sees 31% annual rent rise

City of London landlords are receiving £1,059 more each month than in January 2013...

Better Scottish PRS data needed

Attracting major institutional investors to the private rented homes market requires better data on...

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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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Barclays urges policy action to unlock home energy efficiency upgrades

High energy costs are increasing demand for more efficient homes, but the cost of...

Brilliant Solutions joins Equity Release Council as later life market broadens

Brilliant Solutions has joined the Equity Release Council as the mortgage club and specialist...

Former LMS chief Nick Chadbourne takes chair role at Novus Strategy

Nick Chadbourne, the former chief executive of LMS, has joined mortgage and homebuying consultancy...

Vernon appoints Anthony Murphy to board and audit role

Vernon Building Society has appointed former Nottingham Building Society finance chief Anthony Murphy as...