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![Popular Buy To Let mortgage lender is latest to cut rates](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Paragon Bank has reduced rates on its core range of buy-to-let mortgages, taking 15bps off 10 products, in addition to launching...
05 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Will tumbling mortgage rates turn tenants into buyers?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![40 year buy to let mortgage available from today](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/L%26G%20Mortgage%20club%20announces%20MortgageApplyNow_400x310.png)
HSBC is increasing its maximum mortgage term to 40 years for buy to let, purchase, remortgaging and additional borrowing. Second homes will...
30 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Values plummet in Canary Wharf as fears grow for rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
Canary Wharf was once seen as the future of London - now it’s the location that’s seen the greatest loss in...
04 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Stand by for 1,000 new Build To Rent homes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
One of the country’s biggest Build To Rent players has secured funding for 1,000 new BTR homes. Legal & General has signed...
28 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![House prices to drop 10% in next two years - agency’s stark warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_400x310.png)
A prominent research chief at a leading agency has repeated his claim that average UK house prices are set to drop...
10 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![PropTech: could open banking help the lettings industry?](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/SmartphoneUse-400x310.jpg)
A PropTech firm says Open Banking could help to transform the lettings industry for the better if it is fully embraced. And...
17 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Client Money Protection bank deadline nears, agents warned](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents have only 10 days to open segregated client accounts or they could face being expelled by their client money...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Vast majority of mortgage lenders still have products for landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...
28 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![HSBC puts temporary stop on accepting BTL mortgage applications](/img/default/lat.png)
HSBC says its unable to accept any new buy to let mortgage applications during the Coronavirus crisis. The same applies to applications...
22 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Huge concern over buy to let mortgage market contracting](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Investors still moving into buy to let - but it's a patchy regional picture](/img/default/lat.png)
First the good news - investors are still purchasing buy to let properties; the less good news is that it’s a...
22 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Belvoir back on the acquisition trail after securing funding](/img/default/lat.png)
The UK’s largest franchise agency has secured funding which it will use to strengthen its growth and acquisition strategy. Belvoir has secured...
21 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Lettings franchise acquires 130-strong property portfolio](/img/default/lat.png)
Belvoir Cardiff has completed the acquisition of a management portfolio of 130 rental properties. The purchase of all properties managed by Letwise...
24 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Lifting the Lid on Deposit Disputes](/img/default/lat.png)
Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...
05 August 2016
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![Fledgling agency expands into lettings sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A fledgling estate agency has announced its entrance into the lettings market, despite the uncertainty currently surrounding the sector. Hibbert Homes, which...
14 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Lenders hold 'January sale' to lure buy to let investors, says mortgage broker](/img/default/lat.png)
Many lenders are holding the equivalent of ‘mortgage January sales’ in order to kick-start the market for borrowers, according to a...
08 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Property Ombudsman Hamer to advise ARLA and NAEA](/img/default/lat.png)
The former Property Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer, is to be a special advisor to the National Association of Estate Agents and the...