News

Paragon unveils new five-year portfolio fixed rates

Paragon Bank is adding four new five-year fixed rate mortgages to its buy-to-let portfolio...

Pepper improves buy-to-let criteria

Pepper Money has made changes to its buy-to-let criteria, including reducing minimum income requirements...

Precise appoints BDM for South West

Precise Mortgages has announced the appointment of a new business development manager (BDM) in...

Mansfield BS joins Primis lender panel

Mansfield Building Society has joined Primis Mortgage Network’s lender panel, offering its range of residential...

Zephyr Homeloans cuts buy-to-let rates

Zephyr Homeloans has reduced rates across its buy-to-let mortgage offering. It is offering 2.84%...

Saffron makes two appointments to risk team

Saffron Building Society has announced changes to the make up of its risk team. Clive Moore...

Bluestone Mortgages unveils remortgage deal with cashback

Bluestone Mortgages has launched a cashback remortgage product which is available across all of...

Recognise Bank appoints group treasurer

Recognise Bank has announced Dean Carter is to become its group treasurer. Carter (pictured) had...

MPowered Mortgages makes fixed rate reductions

MPowered Mortgages has revamped its product range with rate reductions across several of its...

Royal London provides Helping Hand to wellbeing

Royal London has expanded its Helping Hand service to include health and wellbeing support...

Network claims carbon neutral first

JLM Mortgage Services has claimed it has become the first mortgage and protection network...

Primis sees surge in expat lending enquiries

PRIMIS Mortgage Network’s product desk helped appointed representative (AR) advisers with 6,075 queries in...

Rightmove reports 0.3% rise in average prices coming to market

Rightmove has said that the average price of property coming to market rose by...

Sirius provides leveraged loan for HMO conversion project

Sirius Property Finance has structured a bespoke development loan to provide 87% of purchase...

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

FCA bans CEO over fake €200m bond portfolio

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

Pivotal reports 121% growth in second charge lending

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

ModaMortgages trims limited-edition five-year fixed rates

ModaMortgages has reduced rates by up to 10 basis points across its limited-edition five-year...

Providence agrees deal to acquire Hometrack

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

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