Portfolio BTL

West One improves BTL criteria and rates

West One Loans' buy-to-let division has made a number of changes to its product...

Understanding and demonstrating value

There are a huge number of ways in which a broker can demonstrate their...

Rental yields keeping pace with property prices

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

Shawbrook completes £11.5m buy-to-let mortgage

Shawbrook Bank, in conjunction with Strategic Partner Coreco Commercial, has supported a customer with...

Paragon unveils new five-year portfolio fixed rates

Paragon Bank is adding four new five-year fixed rate mortgages to its buy-to-let portfolio...

Pepper improves buy-to-let criteria

Pepper Money has made changes to its buy-to-let criteria, including reducing minimum income requirements...

Fleet’s 2021 origination up 96% on previous year

Fleet Mortgages completed £782m of lending during the 2021 calendar year, posting a pre-tax...

Mansfield BS launches new limited company product range 

Mansfield Building Society has reduced rates and simplified its buy-to-let mortgage range with four...

Keystone increases large loan cashback

Keystone Property Finance has increased the amount of cashback it pays on large loans...

Paragon cuts rates across buy-to-let ranges

Paragon Bank has refreshed its buy-to-let product ranges, reducing rates across 20 products. New deals...

Castle Trust Bank introduces new year improvements

Castle Trust Bank has reduced the rate on one of its most popular products,...

Landbay simplifies buy-to-let range with new rates

Landbay has refreshed its range to simplify its buy-to-let mortgage offering and has added...

Paragon unveils switch and further advance products

Paragon has introduced a range of switch and further advance products for portfolio and...

Foundation Home Loans enters 85% LTV buy-to-let market

Foundation Home Loans has launched a range of new buy-to-let products at 85% LTV...

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The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

HSBC UK cuts mortgage rates by up to 11bps

HSBC UK has reduced rates across its mortgage range, with cuts of up to...

Ampla Finance unveils Untangled rebrand as it broadens specialist lending ambitions

Specialist lender Ampla Finance has launched a new brand identity, Untangled, as it looks...