Portfolio BTL

West One Loans eases BTL stress test requirements

West One Loans’ buy-to-let division has cut rates by up to 70 basis points...

Brokers more optimistic about year ahead than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has surveyed over 10,000 brokers for the second year running and...

Shawbrook changes BTL offering to provide more options to landlords

Shawbrook has expanded its buy-to-let mortgage offering in order to provide more support to...

LendInvest Mortgages cuts buy-to-let rates by 80bps

LendInvest Mortgages has significantly reduced its buy-to-let rates. Its new range now has rates starting...

Three-quarters of BTL landlords upbeat about 2024 market

New research from The Mortgage Lender (TML) has found that 74% of residential buy-to-let...

Is the industry too pessimistic about the year ahead?

As you might have expected, there has been a flurry of data, statistics and...

Two-thirds of UK landlords still optimistic about BTL returns

Two-thirds of private landlords in the UK are optimistic about how their property investments...

HTB provides £20m HMO portfolio refinancing facility

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £20m loan for the refinancing of a...

PRS undergoing important structural changes

A survey of over 1,000 landlord clients of the Deposit Protection Service (the DPS)...

Brokers more confident about coming year than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how intermediaries view the market in 2024 and what...

Over half of landlords still planning longer-term expansion

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has published a new report seeking to gain...

Foundation Home Loans launches new portfolio landlord Specials

Foundation Home Loans has launched new Special products for portfolio landlords in its buy-to-let...

Only 7% of landlords plan to sell in 2024

More than a quarter of private landlords in the UK plan to increase the...

Why remortgaging remains a viable capital raising tool

Time is of the essence in the buy-to-let (BTL) market, where the ability to...

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The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom

This was always going to be a tricky interview. I’ve known Kevin Tunnicliffe, chief executive officer of Sort Group, which includes Sort Refer, for...

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

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Click2Check adds ID verification to adviser compliance platform

Click2Check has added an identity verification service to its digital compliance platform, aimed at...

Atom points to growing near-prime hurdle for first-time buyers

First-time buyers with thin credit files or minor historic credit issues are becoming a...

Landlords move to regain possession before Renters’ Rights Act changes

Landlords stepped up possession activity in March as the 1 May implementation of the...

The Marsden appoints chief customer officer

Marsden Building Society has appointed Julia Brook as chief customer officer. Brook (pictured) will be...