Mortgages

Metro Bank revises professional landlord offering

Metro Bank has made changes to its portfolio buy-to-let range. Rates across its core range...

Mortgage growth at the Bucks

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced mortgage growth of 12% during 2016, resulting in...

Monthly fall in mortgage approvals

The Bank of England has reported that February saw mortgage approvals falling for the...

Castle Trust unveils secure email service

Castle Trust is offering a new service which will enable the lender and its intermediary partners...

L&G Mortgage Club unveils Pepper exclusives

Pepper Homeloans has launched a range of two-year fixed rates starting from 2.40%, exclusively via...

Small deposit buyers continue to grow market share

Borrowers with a deposit of 15% or smaller made up 20.5% of the market...

TMW cuts two-year buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has cut rates on selected two-year buy-to-let fixed rate mortgages by 0.15 percentage...

Buy to Let Club partners with Precise Mortgages

Buy to Let Club has teamed up with Precise Mortgages to offer its members an...

Mortgage lending up at the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has reported a 3.8% growth in mortgage assets in 2016...

Vida Homeloans cuts buy-to-let mortgage rates

Vida Homeloans has cut its two-year tracker, two-year fixed and five-year fixed rates on...

Rise in use of ‘bank of mum and dad’

The proportion of first-time buyers relying on inherited wealth or loans from the ‘bank...

Spring self-build sale at the Saffron

Saffron For Intermediaries, the dedicated intermediary channel of Saffron Building Society, is offering a Spring...

YBS unveils 1.42% three year deal at 65% LTV

The Yorkshire Building Society is now offering a three-year fixed rate mortgage for buyers and remortgage customers...

Paradigm partners with Nottingham for Intermediaries

Paradigm Mortgage Services, has added Nottingham for Intermediaries, the dedicated intermediary arm of the Nottingham...
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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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banks

FCA bans CEO over fake €200m bond portfolio

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined and banned two former Blue Horizon Asset...
Second Charge

Pivotal reports 121% growth in second charge lending

Pivotal has reported a 121% year-on-year increase in second charge lending through its Believe...
Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages trims limited-edition five-year fixed rates

ModaMortgages has reduced rates by up to 10 basis points across its limited-edition five-year...
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Providence agrees deal to acquire Hometrack

Providence Equity Partners has agreed to acquire Hometrack, the residential property valuation and risk...

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