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Renters are less financially resilient than recent remortgagers according to an analysis by business consultants Hargreaves Lansdown. It says over two thirds...

New figures from lenders trade body UK Finance show a massive fall in buy to let loans for those aged 55...

A series of lenders have slashed their buy to let mortgage rates in a bid to win business. These include: - LendInvest Mortgages...

Lower mortgage rates - still falling in the days since the end of the festive break - may be persuading some...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

The government is considering five different options for ground rent as the reform process for the sector begins. The government is committed...

The apparent rise and rise of Belvoir Group is down to its resilient business model and the entrepreneurs who run its...

The head of one of the country’s highest profile franchise agency empires says the self-employed ethos of some advisers and entrepreneurial...

A new analysis by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform with stricter energy...

A stark warning has been made to lettings and estate agents that interest rates as high as seven per cent may...

Buy to let mortgages have seen the largest interest rate increase of any mortgage category according to new research. Barrows and Forrester...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...

A prominent lettings and sales agency says there are four reasons why house prices won’t fall off a cliff, despite interest...

A high profile mortgage lender operating in the buy to let sector has launched a series of products aimed at investors...

Belvoir Group is continuing its long term success record but warns that the Liz Truss mini-Budget is still having a detrimental...

A financial expert says the latest house price index, showing the biggest monthly fall for over two years, is the “first...

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...

Yet another buy to let lender has released new products aiming to push the sector into more environmentally-friendly properties.  The Foundation Home...

There’s good news for the buy to let sector today as an independent mortgage market monitor reports a 15-month high in...

One of the most active lenders for international investors in UK buy to let claims to have produced a market-leading mortgage...

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...

Landlords who are remortgaging are currently doing so primarily to build a war chest. That’s the view of mortgage brokerage Mortgages for...

Aldermore Bank is this week resuming physical mortgage valuations on properties for house purchase and remortgage in England, where strict social...

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

Two major buy to let lenders have slashed their rates in a bid to win business. One of the highest profile lenders,...

One of the country’s leading property management experts says buy to let is here to stay - but only if individual...

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 buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...

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...

An online platform claims it has found a new and easy way for investors to become landlords, describing itself as ‘PayPal...

One of the buy to let sector’s main mortgage lenders, Paragon, has refreshed its range of mortgages with new products which...

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...

A lender has launched a new product which is thought to be the first mortgage explicitly aimed at borrowers who propose...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

Figures from UK Finance show there were 5,000 new buy to let house purchase mortgages completed in April - the latest data...

There’s been a big rise in the proportion of landlords remortgaging according to one of the sector’s most prominent lenders, Paragon. In...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says some buy to let mortgage rates have gone back to record lows. The monitor says...

Almost three-quarters of buy to let mortgage transactions made by landlords operating via limited companies in the final quarter of last...

A digital start-up that uses algorithms to match the requirements of landlords against the entire buy to let mortgage market of...

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

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

Landlords continue to look for cheaper, higher-performing properties according to the results of an index produced by Mortgages for Business. An analysis...

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

There has been a three per cent increase in remortgaging levels amongst buy to let investors in March according to data...

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

New lettings data from Agency Express supports the belief that the rental market may be slowing down across much of the...

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

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

The Mortgages for Businesses brokerage says in the third quarter of this year the proportion of landlords purchasing buy to let...

A buy to let lender says new underwriting rules from the Prudential Regulation Authority could trigger another rush to snap up...

Two of the industry’s biggest estate agency groups have selected the same firm to provide their legal services.  Hillyer McKeown has been...

Buy to let loans could outstrip remortgaging within a matter of weeks as landlords rush to beat the April 1 stamp...

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

Measures which discourage investment in the private rented sector can only push up rents and harm tenants more than landlords, a...