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LHV Bank doubles size of loan book

LHV Bank's UK lending portfolio now totals £140 million. At the end of 2023, the...

Paragon Bank unveils edition BTL fixes

Paragon Bank has launched four new limited edition five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages. The...

Mansfield BS moves into Scottish BTL market

Mansfield Building Society has announced its launch into the Scottish buy-to-let market. The lender will...

Saffron for Intermediaries makes improvements across mortgage offering

Saffron for Intermediaries has made rate reductions across a number of products. The changes are...

Foundation’s brands cut pricing

The buy-to-let brand of specialist lender, Foundation Home Loans, has announced new Limited Edition...

Buy to Let by Foundation cuts pricing

Buy to Let by Foundation has made a series of price cuts across a...

Over four-fifths of landlords plan to raise rents

A significant majority of buy-to-let landlords have said that they plan to raise rents...

Yearly rental yields up in all regions of England & Wales

Fleet Mortgages has published the latest iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q2...

LendInvest Mortgages unveils new lower BTL rates from 4.99%

LendInvest Mortgages has announced the launch of new, lower buy-to-let rates. Following its June rate...

West One joins Quilter mortgage panel

West One Loans’ residential and buy-to-let products have been added to Quilter’s panel. This means...

Landlord confidence rebounds

A survey has found that fewer landlords are feeling negative about the prospects of...

Landlords with HMOs remain confident about market

Half of landlords with Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) say they use their property...

Solutions by Foundation unveils new ‘HMO Plus’ range

Solutions by Foundation has launched a new set of products called ‘HMO Plus’ for...

Gatehouse Bank brings back top slicing for UK residents

Gatehouse Bank has reintroduced top slicing for UK residents purchasing a buy-to-let property. Top slicing,...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...