Mortgages

Vida Homeloans added to PTFS panel

Vida Homeloans has been appointed to Personal Touch Financial Services’ lender panel to offer...

New intermediary-only deals from the Skipton

Skipton Intermediaries has unveiled a new range of intermediary-only fixed rate residential and buy-to-let...

Accord: landlords resilient in face of regulation

57% of Accord Mortgages' buy-to-let applications received in 2017 were from those affected by...

TMA adds Paragon Bank to lender panel

TMA Club has added Paragon Bank to its lender panel, offering members access to...

Criteria Hub introduces buy-to-let module

Criteria Hub has announced the rollout of its buy-to-let module, which will provide the same...

Newcastle Intermediaries revises FTB mortgage range

Newcastle Intermediaries has refreshed its range of mortgage products with a focus on first...

Jeremy Duncombe to join Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has announced the appointment of Jeremy Duncombe as its director of intermediary...

Halifax introduces £500 cashback offer

Halifax is offering first-time buyers, homemovers and those who remortgage from another lender £500...

Accord offers £500 cashback to remortgaging landlords

Accord is adding £500 cashback to eight remortgage buy-to-let loans. Deals include a 2.44% five-year fix...

Platform lowers rates on all 90% LTV deals

Platform has cut rates on all 90% LTV mortgages across two, three and five...

Gatehouse Bank adopts Apprivo2 system

BEP Systems has revealed that Gatehouse Bank has become the latest organisation to use...

Barclays Mortgages unveils 1.28% two-year fix

Barclays Mortgages is launching a two-year fixed rate and cutting rates across a number of its...

The Leeds offers £1k Help to Buy cashback

The Leeds Building Society is to add two new mortgages with £1,000 cashback to...

13 applied for Santander mortgage over Christmas/Boxing days

Santander has revealed that Christmas day saw 5% of the bank’s online customers log...

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...

Latest news

Landlords exploit softer market with lowball offers

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

Asking prices suffer biggest August fall since 2018

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

Instamo launches automated post-submission mortgage tool

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

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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