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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...

Seconds completions double at Positive Lending

Positive Lending has more than doubled its second charge mortgage completions since the launch...

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...

Conveyancers achieve Cyber Safe accreditation

Blacks Solicitors and Shakespeare Martineau have become the first Conveyancing Association (CA) members to...

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...

ASTL unveils conference speaker line-up

The ASTL has announced the full line-up of speakers for its conference on 22 September at...

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...

More 2 Life backs FCA rule relaxation

More 2 Life has welcomed the recent move by the Financial Conduct Authority to...
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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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