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Regional divide reshapes landlord investment plans

Landlords are reassessing where they invest as regional differences in yields, arrears and void...

PropTech silos prolong mortgage journey, Houzecheck warns

Disconnected property technology is creating new data silos instead of delivering faster mortgage and...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax...

Gen H AI cuts mortgage offer delays by up to five days

Gen H has introduced an artificial intelligence packaging agent designed to identify document errors...

Landbay cuts buy-to-let rates and expands specialist range

Landbay has cut rates by up to 0.35% across its Premier, Core and Specialist...

Stonebridge overhauls protection sourcing platform

Stonebridge has redesigned the protection sourcing journey within its Revolution adviser platform to support...

WH Ireland adopts MARS to strengthen vulnerable client support

WH Ireland has adopted the MorganAsh Resilience System (MARS) to improve how it identifies...

Vida mortgage lending more than doubles to £840m

Vida Group Holdings increased gross mortgage lending to £840m during the first half of...

Mortgage rate reversal wipes out July cuts

Average mortgage rates increased during July, reversing the reductions recorded a month earlier, according...

London leads rental growth as supply shortage keeps rents high

London recorded the strongest monthly increase in average rents as demand continued to outstrip...

House price growth slows to 0.1%: Lloyds

UK house prices remained unchanged in July as higher mortgage rates and global economic...

Q&A: Charlotte Grimshaw, Suffolk Building Society

Mortgage Soup fires the questions at Charlotte Grimshaw, head of intermediaries at Suffolk Building...

Mortgage fraud rises across every category

Mortgage-related fraud increased across every category tracked by Cifas during the first half of...

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...
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We must not accept our snail’s pace home buying system

Buying a house in this country can be ridiculously slow, as a handful of recent studies have highlighted. Research from the House Buyer Bureau...

Deferment and capitalisation rates: small percentages, large consequences

The Government is currently consulting on Leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates to determine what deferment and capitalisation rates should be prescribed under the Leasehold and...

Your clients can’t tell which firm they’re dealing with

Two clients walk into your firm in the same week. One of them is a referral from a mate of yours. Complicated case, self-employed, bit...

It’s time to look at retention

As the summer winds down and the back-to-school routine kicks back in, I urge the industry to turn its attention to something just as...

Landlords are buying – and advisers should take note

There has been no shortage of commentary over recent years suggesting landlords are heading for the exit, buy-to-let apparently no longer works and the...

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