Buy-to-let

Sirius completes £18.4m portfolio refinance in Greater Manchester

Sirius Finance has completed an £18.4m refinance of a mixed-use property portfolio across Greater...

UTB appoints commercial director for mortgages, buy-to-let and bridging

United Trust Bank has appointed Andrew Ferguson to a newly created commercial director role...

Quantum Mortgages set to expand into specialist residential lending

Quantum Mortgages is preparing to enter the specialist residential mortgage market, extending its lending...

Big restructure at Afin Bank as leaders head for pastures new

Afin Bank is restructuring its senior management team after key players James Briggs and...

Rental supply rises year on year despite tax and regulatory pressures

Rental supply across England has increased by more than 15% over the past year,...

Growth in mortgage lending forecast to continue despite tighter affordability

UK Finance has released its latest Mortgage Market Forecast for 2026 and 2027, projecting...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Zephyr lifts broker fees and trims rates across buy-to-let range

Zephyr Homeloans has raised procuration fees for intermediaries and cut pricing on its fixed-rate...

No acceleration in rental EPC improvements despite policy push

Rightmove’s 2025 Greener Homes Report indicates that the overall energy efficiency of UK homes...

HTB finalises £6m refinance on complex London portfolio

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £6 million refinance for an experienced landlord...

Budget uncertainty deepened November slowdown in housing market

The latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey shows that the Autumn Budget did little...

West One strengthens mortgage division with trio of senior hires

West One Loans has expanded its mortgage division with three appointments as the lender...

Paragon widens streamlined process to HMOs and multi-unit blocks

Paragon Bank has expanded its streamlined buy-to-let mortgage application process to cover houses in...

ColCap UK passes major buy-to-let milestone as lending platform expands

ColCap Financial UK, the parent company of specialist lender Molo, has passed £1 billion...

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What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

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Royal London pays income protection claim before customer pays first premium

Royal London has paid an income protection claim to a customer who became unable...

Novello joins OPDA as it prepares AI-led surveying platform

Novello Chartered Surveyors has joined the Open Property Data Association as the surveying firm...

Virgin Money raises selected mortgage rates and launches new 60% LTV deals

Virgin Money is increasing selected residential and buy-to-let rates from 16 September while withdrawing...

Clydesdale to raise residential product transfer rates by up to 0.20%

Clydesdale will increase selected residential product transfer fixed rates from Wednesday 16 September. The lender...