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Brokers expect 2024 rise in limited company buy-to-let lending

49% of mortgage brokers expect to place more limited company buy-to-let business throughout the...

Landbay integrates AVMs into buy-to-let offering

Landbay has integrated automated valuation models (AVM) in a move designed to speed up...

Landlord purchase business to continue growth trajectory

The buy-to-let market has started 2024 at a fair old lick with plenty of...

Shawbrook provides £20m BTL portfolio facility

Shawbrook has helped an experienced professional landlord to refinance a large portfolio of 36...

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...

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The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

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...

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Accord cuts all residential new business fixed rates by 0.10%

Accord Mortgages is reducing every fixed rate in its residential new business range by...

Skipton raises maximum income multiple to 6x

Skipton Building Society has increased the maximum loan-to-income multiple available through its LTI Booster...

AI used by more than half of consumers considering complaints

More than half of consumers who made or considered making a formal complaint about...

BetterHome Group UK appoints Anthony Glasgow as chief operating officer

BetterHome Group UK has appointed former Connells Group executive Anthony Glasgow as chief operating...