Portfolio BTL

Wales takes top spot for rental yields

Fleet Mortgages has released the latest iteration of its Buy-to-Let Rental Barometer covering Q4...

PMS Mortgage Club adds Molo Finance to panel

PMS Mortgage Club, part of Sesame Bankhall Group, has announced the addition of specialist...

Foundation Home Loans cuts BTL and owner-occupied special rates

Foundation Home Loans has reduced rates on both its buy-to-let and Owner-Occupied Specials. The Buy-to-Let...

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...

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Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

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Broker Conveyancing launches £175 remortgage package

Broker Conveyancing has introduced a fixed-price remortgage conveyancing package through its new online hub. The...

Buckinghamshire BS cuts residential and specialist rates

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced mortgage rates across its residential and specialist lending ranges,...

Final call for views on FCA mortgage reforms

The mortgage industry has until tomorrow to respond to Financial Conduct Authority proposals intended...

One in five borrow to fund private healthcare

Almost one in five people who recently accessed private healthcare used a credit card...