Mortgages

Post-Brexit vote bounce for buy-to-let

Buy-to-let activity increased by 12.7% in August as the sector successfully absorbed the Government’s 2015 policy...

TMW increases buy-to-let options

The Mortgage Works (TMW) is reducing rates on two, three and five-year fixed rate buy-to-let...

Fall in costs of buy-to-let mortgages

Mortgage Brain has reported that the costs of buy-to-let mortgages have fallen by as...

Barclays makes fixed rate cuts

Barclays has cut interest rates on a number of of its two five, seven and...

New Street Mortgages to launch BTL range

New Street Mortgages, which launched in March, has completed its buy-to-let pilot phase. The new...

Aldermore cuts Help to Buy rates

Aldermore is reducing rates on its Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee offering. The lender...

TFC appoints head of marketing

TFC Homeloans has recruited Charlotte Rutter as head of marketing. Rutter (pictured) will manage all marketing...

Accord reduces two-year BTL rates

Accord Mortgages has cut rates on selected two-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages by up to...

New BTL intermediary exclusives from Skipton

Skipton Intermediaries has launched two three-year buy-to-let intermediary exclusive deals. The two remortgage products, which are...

July approvals down 5% year-on-year

The latest Mortgage Monitor from e.surv has reported that 65,907 mortgage approvals (seasonally adjusted) were issued...

New corporate account managers at NatWest IS

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is expanding its senior management team with the appointment of two...

Variable mortgages causing UK market volatility

Nottingham Trent University has claimed that research shows the UK's property market is “highly volatile”...

Kensington unveils new mortgage range

Kensington has revamped its mortgage range, offering lower pricing, a specialist new build proposition and new...

Clever Lending to distribute Bluestone Mortgages deals

Clever Lending has joined the Bluestone Mortgages panel as a distributor of its first...
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COMMENT

Comment

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...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

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Knowledge Bank has launched an intelligence service that allows mortgage lenders to analyse more...
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Prime London sales falter as rental growth hits 18-month high

Prime London sales activity weakened in July while annual rental growth accelerated to its...
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RICS: Mortgage costs keep housing market subdued

The UK housing market remained subdued in July as buyer demand and agreed sales...

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