Expats

Afin Bank appoints Anum Mahmood to national key account role

Afin Bank has appointed Anum Mahmood as national key account manager, as the specialist...

Vida extends foreign national criteria across buy-to-let range

Vida Homeloans has widened its foreign national lending criteria across its entire buy-to-let range,...

Family boosts buy-to-let borrowing by up to 35%

Family Building Society has enhanced its buy-to-let affordability assessment, increasing potential borrowing by up...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

The Marsden joins Brilliant Solutions panel to widen later life and expat lending access

Marsden Building Society has joined the Brilliant Solutions lender panel, expanding the range of...

RAW Capital Partners streamlines interest payments for overseas landlords

RAW Capital Partners has updated its mortgage proposition to allow foreign national borrowers to...

Arc & Co completes £1.2m complex buy-to-let portfolio refinance

Arc & Co has arranged a £1.2m refinance of a five-property buy-to-let portfolio involving...

Griffin appointed chief risk officer at Afin Bank

Afin Bank has appointed Rebecca Griffin as chief risk officer as it continues to...

Gatehouse Bank cuts 5-year BTL rates for expats and overseas buyers

Gatehouse Bank has reduced rental rates by 0.18% across its full range of 5-year...

International buyers hold 203,000 homes

Almost 203,000 homes across England and Wales are owned by international homeowners, with London...

Gatehouse Bank partnership aims to ease UK property finance for overseas buyers

Gatehouse Bank has partnered with financial technology firm Algbra in a move designed to...

GB Bank completes £3.5m Bayswater refinance for Monaco-based expat

GB Bank has completed a £3.5 million refinance for a Monaco-based expatriate, secured on...

RAW Capital Partners brings automated valuations into early-stage mortgage decisions

Specialist lender RAW Capital Partners has introduced automated valuation models on eligible mortgage applications,...

Market Harborough cuts fixed rates across residential and let ranges

Market Harborough Building Society has cut rates across its fixed-rate mortgage range, with reductions...
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COMMENT

Buy-to-let

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

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Energy efficiency

Energy-efficient homes ‘may carry higher climate risks’

Some of the UK’s more energy-efficient homes could face greater long-term exposure to flooding...
Housing

New towns plan may help supply but risks falling short, says former RICS chair

The government’s announcement of seven proposed new towns has been broadly welcomed as a...
Buy-to-let

Buy-to-let mortgage rates rise as landlords face fresh cost pressures

Buy-to-let mortgage rates have risen sharply this month, while landlords are also facing further...
Technology

Virgin Money to take mortgage application systems offline for five days

Virgin money has announced that its Virgin Money and Clydesdale online application platforms will...

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