Mortgages

Paradigm lender and provider award winners announced

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Protect have announced the winners of their annual Lender and...

UK Finance: housing market activity remains buoyant

UK’s Finance has reported steady increases in mortgage lending for first-time-buyers and home movers...

New discount BTL deal from the Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has introduced a new lower-fee two-year discount buy-to-let...

The Leeds makes fixed rate cuts

The Leeds Building Society has revamped its mortgage range by reducing its fixed rate deals...

New retention range from the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society has unveiled a new range of retention products for existing...

Brilliant Solutions expands lender panel

Brilliant Solutions has added the Tipton & Coseley Building Society to its lender panel.  The...

Coventry for Intermediaries issues its lowest ever BTL fixed rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has cut rates across its two and five year fixed buy-to-let...

Landbay unveils landlord product for first time buyers

Landbay is extending its lending criteria to now include first time landlords who do...

Generation Z in the dark over home-owning

Research from Halifax has revealed a disjointed picture of home ownership among young people...

New cashback option from Accord

Accord Mortgages has cut rates and introduced an extra cashback boost on selected mortgages. The...

Paragon unveils new buy-to-let products

Paragon has introduced an extended range of Portfolio and Non-portfolio buy-to-let mortgage products. It has...

High LTV mortgage choice “remains patchy”

AmTrust's latest Mortgage LTV Tracker continues to show that, while the rate differential between...

Metro Bank cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Metro Bank has reduced rates across its five-year fixed residential and buy-to-let product ranges, as...

Knowledge Bank provides evidence of criteria research

Knowledge Bank has improved its ‘evidence of research’ facility to give brokers the tools...
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COMMENT

Comment

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

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Buy-to-let

Landlords exploit softer market with lowball offers

More than half of buy-to-let investor offers were at least 10% below the original...
House prices

Asking prices suffer biggest August fall since 2018

The average asking price of a newly listed home fell by 2% in August,...
Business

Instamo launches automated post-submission mortgage tool

Instamo has launched FastAdmin, a post-submission automation service designed to reduce the administrative work...
Property Transactions

HMLR and OS data tie-up targets faster property transactions

HM Land Registry (HMLR) and Ordnance Survey (OS) have agreed a three-year collaboration intended...

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