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Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...

Many private renters are misguided on what actually contributes to their credit score and thus may not be taking the correct...

The costs of upgrading properties to meet new energy efficiency standards are likely to be passed on to tenants via higher...

In this tips piece, Blake Richmond, managing director of referencing at Goodlord, sets out how agents can combat fraud in the lettings process.  Over...

Buy To Let lending is set to fall back this year, after a hectic 2021. That’s the forecast from the Intermediary Mortgage...

UK Finance, the umbrella group representing major mortgage lenders, says there will have been a massive 83 per cent surge in...

PropTech suppliers Kamma and CoreLogic UK have teamed up to help improve the process of buy to let lending and compliance. Kamma...

A think tank says it would take a major policy change to fulfil Boris Johnson’s goal to turn generation rent into...

Rapidly rising rents may trigger a new wave of investment buyers in London, helping to resuscitate the capital’s sales market in...

Paragon Bank increased its focus on specialist buy to let lending during the first half of its financial year as its...

A leading buy to let mortgage expert has backed the government’s pledge to issue a White Paper and additional consultation before...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector.  “Extending...

ARLA Propertymark is warning the government that new energy efficiency targets for EPCs could stifle buy to let investment in future. In...

For most letting agents the last year has been a challenging one which has focused attention on dealing with the immediate,...

New research suggests even those renters who want to be owner occupiers are likely to remain in the lettings sector in the...

A prominent lettings agent has come out in favour of the eviction ban extension - but he wants government cash help...

Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...

Buy to let investors should be exempted from the three per cent stamp duty surcharge even if purchasers of holiday homes still...

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...

One of London’s largest lettings agencies is warning its landlord clients to only use mortgage payment holidays offered by lenders as a...

HSBC says its unable to accept any new buy to let mortgage applications during the Coronavirus crisis. The same applies to applications...

The director of the website Home says that investment in buy to let will look like a highly attractive safe haven...

There’s growing concern across the lettings sector about the buy to let mortgage market seeing lenders pull product ranges, tighten lending...

A council says it’s considering lending funds for improvement to landlords who “behave fairly and appropriately” - and buy into a...

A fifth of buy-to-let landlords claim they have reduced the number of properties in their portfolios due to a range of...

Rents are rising at the fastest rate since 2017, pushing the average yield on residential property to 4.5 per cent, its...

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...

A rise in the number of professional landlords means letting agents need to ensure their service meets the expectations of experienced...

Landlords can make savings by switching their buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages as average costs have started to fall.  The latest analysis from Mortgage...

A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...

A leading buy to let mortgage provider says the professional landlord with multiple properties is increasingly becoming the backbone of its...

There was a notable increase in the number of older buy-to-let investors in 2018, according to Commercial Trust Limited. The specialist buy-to-let...

It’s a vital time for letting agents to hammer home the benefits of buy to let and the dangers to landlords...

The Nationwide is the latest lender to say it will not insist its buy to let borrowers enforce a No DSS...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...

Rents are likely to rise 2.5 per cent in 2019, then 3.0 per cent in 2020 and a further 2.0 per...

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let mortgage broker is warning that mortgages for landlords are likely to become...

The number of buy to let lenders lending to limited companies has risen by 47 per cent over the past year,...

The Nationwide has called for greater consistency in the treatment and return of security deposits so that tenants leaving properties in...

The shock findings of a new survey suggest that 32 per cent of landlords would be less likely to buy new...

A survey has revealed that 44% of landlords are looking to sell properties as a challenging market takes its toll. Octopus Choice,...

If you’re a landlord who owns a buy to let property or perhaps a portfolio and need to raise money against...

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...

The conclusions of a new think tank analysing the private rental sector are “fundamentally wrong” according to a trade body.  The Residential...

Mortgage lenders and brokers have been too quiet over changes to buy to let lending, according to a trade body. The National...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

Buy-to-let lender Paragon says it has seen a 'marked shift' towards buy-to-let activity among professional investors. The organisation reports that this is...

Buy to let investors are taking a wait and see approach when it comes to additional investment in the sector according...

The price of some buy to let mortgages looks set to rise across the board following the decisions of two of...

A specialist buy to let lender is making changes to its lending conditions to ensure its residential and commercial borrowers conform...

The Bank of England has issued gloomy figures on buy to let lending, suggesting the clampdown on mortgage interest tax relief...

The consumer organisation Which? is warning that buy to let mortgages could become more expensive in the near future. This is despite...

A survey from a specialist rental insurance firm suggests that contrary to popular belief, landlords care more than a little about...

One of Britain’s best known and highest profile buy to let specialist lenders says the number of new BTL mortgages being...

There’s been another large increase in the number of buy to let mortgages sought by limited companies - they accounted for...

Portfolio landlords unable to borrow or contemplating selling because of new Prudential Regulation Authority rules are being urged to consider equity...

The increasing number of renters and low interest rates for existing home owners mean that the total rent bill is now...

The mortgage director of Romans, one of the country’s largest agency groups, says the new Bank of England rules being introduced...

The buy to let market risks becoming a car crash following the changes of lending rules for so-called portfolio landlords with...

Changes to buy-to-let lending criteria being introduced at the end of this month could encourage a surge of rental stock as...

Political uncertainty across the UK and increased restrictions on buy to let are leading many landlords to raise rents and review...

The Bank of Mum and Dad isn’t just a phenomenon in the sales market - new research shows it’s a growing...

The National Landlords Association is urging buy to let investors to consider remortgaging in the very near future ahead of new...

Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...

  Nationwide - the UK's second largest buy to let lender - has reported a 20 per cent drop in profits and admits...

Leeds Building Society is the latest major lender to reveal changes to buy to let lending ahead of new rules coming...

Mortgage Advice Bureau increased revenue by 15 per cent to £49m in the first half of 2017, and reports that the...

Accord Buy To Let is the latest lender to change its lending criteria for portfolio landlords with four or more investment...

Over half the value of buy to let lending in the second quarter of this year was provided to limited companies...

Skipton International has launched a guide to help expat buy to let investors trying to make sense of the UK government’s...

The number of buy-to-let mortgage loans fell by over a fifth during April, according to the latest figures from the Council...

Who are you? Rebecca Johnston What does it say on your business card? Managing Director (TDS Custodial) What is TDS Custodial? TDS Custodial is a government-approved...

Investors in buy to let are the marketing target for a service which describes itself as the UK’s first digital mortgage...

The Paragon Group of Companies has reported that its new buy to let lending totalled £556.2m for the six months to the end...

A series of six video ‘shows’ - ideal for agents to promote to would-be investment buyers - has been launched by...

Mortgage lending for the buy to let sector has halved since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April 2016 according...

A letting sector trade body says two thirds of the largest buy to let mortgage lenders do not allow landlords to...

One of the biggest lenders to the buy to let community, Santander, is to lower its affordability assessments from next Wednesday.   It...

Paragon Bank, one of the country’s leading specialist buy to let mortgages houses, almost halved its lending to landlords in the...

Gross buy to let lending increased in November to the highest monthly level since the stamp duty surcharge was introduced in...

The consumer organisation Which? has joined the chorus of concern that new mortgage restrictions may hit buy to let landlords.   Since January...

No fewer than 60 per cent of buy to let investors say they believe they will be hit by forthcoming changes...

Specialist mortgage lender OneSavings Bank is the latest to announce that it is introducing stricter affordability assessments for all new buy...

The number of buy to let transactions across England and Wales has fallen 8.2 per cent in one month and is down an...

There is a new warning from the Bank of England suggesting that - despite all the recent measures aimed against buy...

Landlord confidence has returned despite government tax changes to the private rental sector - although research for the survey that produced...

The Financial Times reports that the Bank of England is questioning buy to let mortgage lenders and banks as part of...

The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...

The Bank of England has been given additional powers by the government to control mortgage lending for buy to let investors. The...

There’s been a significant drop in the amount borrowed by buy to let investors over the past year, despite a rise...

An outspoken mortgage chief has criticised other lenders for supplying buy to let products to “every Tom, Dick and Harry” since...

Buy to let lending is well down according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.    Apparently contrary to an optimistic report...

The financial downturn was “probably the best thing that could have happened” to this country’s private rental sector according to lettings...

Buyer enquiries from potential landlords and investors are now up 30 per cent since May according to Rightmove, suggesting that the...

A Bairstow Eves letting agent who stole over £21,000 in tenants’ deposits over two years to pay her own payday loan...

Details of the Bank of England’s statement outlining tougher rules on mortgage lending to buy to let investors have been shown...

The chief executive of financial consultancy Clayton Euro Risk says changes soon coming in to tighten the criteria applied to buy...

New data from referencing company Equifax Touchstone suggests that this July’s buy to let mortgage lending total is 39 per cent...

  A letter from the Financial Conduct Authority, leaked to Sky News, suggests that the body is drawing up plans to tighten...

New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...

There has been another high-level prediction that mortgage lending for buy to let investors is likely to be restricted further in the...

One of Britain’s leading buy to let mortgage companies says it anticipates that over three quarters of borrowing to purchase BTL...

A market survey by specialist broker Mortgages for Business reveals that there has been a substantial increase in lending in the...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney says the bank is keeping a close eye on the buy to let market -...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has told the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority not to add unnecessarily to the welter...

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...

Lettings volumes have taken a sharp downward trend in May according to board company Agency Express. New listings were down 11.9 per...

There was a massive slowdown in buy to let lending by investors as the additional homes stamp duty surcharge passed -...

A mortgage firm specialising in buy to let products says lending to landlords set up as limited companies surged in the...

Landlords are increasingly favouring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and more 'complex property types' due to the often higher yields available.  Mortgages...

Chancellor George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge imposed on landlords and other second home buyers from April 1 prompted an enormous 142...

A warning is being issued that the types of mortgages still being extended to buy to let investors risks them becoming...

Ahead of what some consider as the likely tightening of buy to let mortgage lending criteria by the Bank of England...

The approaching of the April 1 stamp duty surcharge deadline led to a severe drop-off in buy to let purchasers seeking...

A financial journalist has lambasted the government’s anti-buy to let policies, describing them as “political short-termism ... a vote winner to...

Demand for buy to let mortgages in the coming months is expected to fall "significantly" according to a Bank of England...

Research by HomeLet shows that rents on new tenancies outside London over the three months to March were on average 4.9...

A leading chartered surveying firm is stressing the differences that exist between new English and Scottish energy efficiency rules hitting the...

More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...

The financial editor of The Guardian newspaper claims that - despite widespread criticism within the lettings industry of the latest buy...

An industry body says proposals by the Bank of England to curb buy to let lending are “premature.” The Bank’s Prudential Regulation...

The Bank of England has released new buy to let mortgage underwriting standards which are expected to set out stricter borrowing...

Banks approved 45,892 mortgages for house purchases last month - a 20 per cent rise on the February last year, with...

February has seen a further burst of buy to let activity, fuelled not only by the stamp duty surcharge deadline but...

The gap between average incomes and the pay of tenants who want to buy their first property has reached a post-recession...

A new report from the independent Social Market Foundation think tank has found that almost two million more people have been...

A surge in lending for buy to let properties ahead of April’s stamp duty surcharge means mortgage approvals have reached their...

A risk expert at a leading buy to let mortgage company says the industry should actually embrace the restrictions on lending...

New figures from the British Property Federation show that there are now over 30,000 Build To Rent units with planning permission...

Paragon Mortgages, one of the buy to let sector’s biggest and best-known lenders, says its buy to let lending in the...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has again spoken out about possible “threats” to the economy posed by the increase in...

A financial analyst says current buy to let mortgage constraints - with a strong possibility of more later this year - may...

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...

Buy To Let mortgage lending grew 17 per cent in 2015 but faces a potential slump after April, according to property...

Treasury proposals to hand greater powers to the Bank of England to make access to buy to let lending harder risks...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is warning of a possible slump for the buy to let market in the next two...

The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is the latest influential figure to hint that there may soon be additional restrictions...

The scores are in - we have asked 20 senior agents and analysts for their forecasts for capital values the 2016...

The government is poised to launch a consultation document which is expected to advocate further restrictions on buy to let mortgage...

A new survey of mortgage approvals suggests first time buyers are continuing to lose out - and are thus likely to...

Ahead of expected restrictions on buy to let lending to be introduced next year by the Bank of England, some individual...

A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...

Two interviews given by a deputy governor of the Bank of England appear to suggest that there will soon be additional...

It appears almost certain that the Bank of England is preparing for new mortgage controls in a bid to dampen what...

One of Britain’s best known specialist buy to let mortgage companies, Paragon, has revealed a startling 102 per cent increase in...

Mortgage lending to buy to let landlords has increased by volume and by value in the third quarter of the year, according...

The prospect of lending restraints for landlords next year has done little to deter lenders offering a wide range of deals...

Buy to let lending continues to show a large rise compared to the same time last year according to new figures from...

A so-called 'ethical lettings charter' established by a group that has campaigned against some letting agencies, is set to be adopted...

Landbay, a relatively new peer-to-peer lender focussed on the buy to let sector, has appointed a former senior figure from Paragon...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has slapped down the Bank of England's claim that stability of the UK economy could...

The Council for Mortgage Lenders is warning the government not to interfere with the Buy To Let sector in such a...

A survey of 500 landlords suggest that 10 per cent of them have had difficulties in securing a mortgage over the...

The rise and rise of buy to let continues apace with the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showing...

When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently announced that interest rates would have to start to rise sooner...

The specialist buy to let mortgage sector is set to be an unexpected victim of the buy to let tax changes...

The central London sales market dip of recent weeks has directly led to a surge in the lettings sector according to...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

The head of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association is telling the Bank of England to back away from its strident warnings...

The Bank of England says excessive lending to fund buy to let purchases could pose a risk to the financial well-being...

Crowdfunding platform CrowdPropertyhas now raised a total of £1.43m across four residential property development projects in the UK.   It says almost 2,000...

A survey of financial advisors has reported that the majority expect to do more buy-to-let business in the coming months.  Paragon Mortgages’...

Latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show there were 18,200 buy to let loans in March - up 12 per...

A specialist buy to let lender is increasing the maximum age of the borrower at the end of the mortgage term...

A Conservative government means good news in the shape of a reduction in bureaurcracy for the private rental sector - but...