Buy-to-let

Virgin Money improves residential offering

Virgin Money has made a series of changes across its residential mortgage range. A...

The Saffron makes criteria enhancements

Saffron For Intermediaries has improved its buy-to-let and first-time buyer lending criteria. For buy-to-let,...

Beware of a buy-to-let business grab

The countdown to MMR has begun in earnest and, as our industry is prone...

Major returns for capital landlords

London landlords have seen total annual returns of 14.6% in the year to...

Cost of ‘wasted’ rent revealed

UK homeowners spend an average of £41,900 on rental payments before buying their first...

InterBay now allows BTL packaging

InterBay Commercial has announced that its top tier of Key Partners can now package...

Paragon targets portfolio landlords with new deal

Paragon Mortgages has launched a new five year fixed rate product aimed at large-scale...

Brokers bullish about buy-to-let

Brokers expect growth in buy-to-let business following an encouraging final quarter of 2013, according...

Post Office comes back into BTL market

Post Office, in conjunction with its financial services partner Bank of Ireland, has launched...

CML: FTBs drove 2013 mortgage market forward

The total number of home-owner loans for house purchase in December 2013 was down...

TBMC unveils pair of BTL trackers

TBMC has launched two exclusive buy-to-let mortgage products with the Hanley Economic Building Society....

Mortgage Trust offers 80% LTV buy-to-let deals

Mortgage Trust has unveiled a new range of 80% loan-to-value (LTV) buy-to-let products. The Paragon...

Masthaven unveils purchase buy-to-let deal

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has launched a new product aimed at helping customers gain...

Keystone adjusts pricing with new product offering

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has launched two product ranges, aiming to cater more...

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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...