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KEYWORD "Loans" - 100 RESULTS
More buy to let mortgage rate changes from lenders

There have been more changes to buy to let mortgage ranges from lenders. Coming into effect today, The Mortgage Works will be...

26 March 2024

From: Breaking News

Letting agents demand banks cut mortgage rates

The letting agents’ trade body has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically decided...

29 February 2024

From: Breaking News

What’s your view on tenants getting 99% mortgages?

Rental sector and property industry views are split over the controversial idea of allowing first time buyers to put down a...

26 February 2024

From: Breaking News

Worries grow over dramatic slump in older buy to let landlords

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

22 February 2024

From: Breaking News

Tax - will Jeremy Hunt target stamp duty in his Budget?

Although SDLT receipts have been volatile in recent years, the property tax’s effectiveness as a revenue-raiser for the Government is not...

10 February 2024

From: Tax & Finance

Mortgage Crisis: thousands of landlords in arrears, hundreds of homes repo'd

Data from lenders trade body UK Finance show an 18 per cent leap in buy to let arrears in the past...

09 February 2024

From: Breaking News

Buy To Let mortgage loans stay steady as wider market improves

Confidence has returned to the mortgage market, with sentiment improving steadily month by month in the last quarter of 2023, according...

08 February 2024

From: Breaking News

Landlord jailed for 11 years for part in £8.75m drugs empire

A wealthy landlord, who also ran a fake lettings agency, has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

07 February 2024

From: Breaking News

Mortgage lender launches new range to target more landlords

A range of specialist buy to let mortgage products covering multi-occupancy properties, mixed-use or part-commercial properties, and expat investors, has been...

24 January 2024

From: Breaking News

Commercial landlords more optimistic despite economic headwinds - lender

Despite inflationary and mortgage volatility over the last 12 months, a mortgage lender claims over a third of commercial landlords are...

16 January 2024

From: Breaking News

Building society scraps mortgage application fees for landlords

The Penrith Building Society has scrapped mortgage application fees for all buy to let and residential  products, including further advances, until...

10 January 2024

From: Breaking News

Building Society warns it may stop lending on holiday lets

A building society says it is considering ending its policy of lending to buyers of holiday lets. Martese Carton, the director of...

09 January 2024

From: Breaking News

BTL Mortgage Rates slashed by prominent specialist lender

One of the UK’s best known platforms for mortgages has significantly reduced its Buy To Let rates. Starting from 3.79 per cent,...

04 January 2024

From: Breaking News

Massive Slump in buy to let lending - mortgage figures

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 -...

03 January 2024

From: Breaking News

Rental sector rivals unite against Tory First Time Buyer plans

Both sides of the rental divide have criticised Conservative proposals to boost housing demand while doing nothing about supply. Over the New...

02 January 2024

From: Breaking News

Official figures show house prices to suffer significant fall next year

The Office for Budget Responsibility - a Treasury department operating independently from the government - released its central forecast for the...

23 November 2023

From: Breaking News

Sunak’s EPC U-turn slows landlord exodus as gloom lifts

Landlord confidence has improved over the course of the past quarter according to a respected quarterly sentiment survey. The Q3 2023 BVA...

17 November 2023

From: Breaking News

It’s OK to be a Long-Term Renter!

Our generations-old obsession with home-ownership may be waning for the first time in recent memory. The introduction of the Housing Act in...

04 November 2023

From: The Big Issues

Student rent rises should be capped, urges housing analyst

A housing analyst says student rent increases should be capped in the same way as social housing rents are. Rory Hughes, writing...

31 October 2023

From: Breaking News

Tenants given powers to force EPC upgrades on landlords - proposal

The Green Party wants private tenants to be able to force landlords to improve the energy efficiency of homes. The scheme -...

09 October 2023

From: Breaking News

Discounts Grow for Landlords Expanding Portfolios - Zoopla

The housing market remains a buyers’ market, with 80 per cent more homes for sale than in September 2021 according to...

29 September 2023

From: Breaking News

What’s your buy-to-let worth?

As the ‘big buy-to-let’ sell off gathers momentum, we take a look ways you can guestimate the value of your rental...

14 September 2023

From: Sponsored Content

Mortgage Crisis pushes out small landlords as corporates take over

Dashly, a platform that monitors over £100 billion of mortgages, says landlords in London renewing loans soon will be, on average,...

05 September 2023

From: Breaking News

Warning that interest-only borrowers may face shortfall

The number of interest-only (750,000) and part-interest-only (245,000) mortgages has halved since 2015, new Financial Conduct Authority analysis has found.  The fall...

04 September 2023

From: Breaking News

Landlords lose £4,000 per property in a year - new research

Yearly returns on the average buy-to-let property in the UK were over £4000 lower in June 2023, compared to the same...

01 September 2023

From: Breaking News

Tips for Renters - are you advising your tenants this way?

A loans company, Moneyboat, has issued a series of tips for renters before and during their tenancies.  It claims that by avoiding...

18 August 2023

From: Breaking News

Tax benefits lead landlords to flock towards incorporation

A growing number of landlords are incorporating in order to salvage profits from the difficult buy to let sector, a bank...

10 August 2023

From: Breaking News

Shocking new figures offer one reason why rental sector is so strong

New housing affordability figures provide one underlying reason why many potential buyers cannot make the move and instead rely increasingly on...

28 July 2023

From: Breaking News

House Prices plunge 31%? At least the banks would survive…

Details have emerged of an extraordinary ‘stress test’ created by the Bank of England and tested on eight major banks to...

14 July 2023

From: Breaking News

Landlord arrears rising faster than home owners - new figures

Arrears in the buy to let sector are worsening at a faster rate than for homeowners. Octane Capital analysed industry figures on...

12 July 2023

From: Breaking News

Another council wants landlords to help house local families

Landlords are being invited to a free event to find out more about help and incentives on offer to help local...

03 July 2023

From: Breaking News

Mortgages - Let’s Keep Things In Perspective

There is currently a lot of discussion about the mortgage crisis, its impact on borrowers and landlords – and calls for...

24 June 2023

From: Tax & Finance

New dire warning of rent rises as landlords end fixed-rate deals

There’s a new warning this morning that rents are set to soar as landlords struggle with much higher interest rate payments...

16 June 2023

From: Breaking News

Buy To Let mortgage products removed from market by lenders

Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...

01 June 2023

From: Breaking News

Section 24 petition falls far short of signature target

The Section 24 parliamentary petition, seeking to persuade MPs to reinstate mortgage interest tax relief for landlords, has fallen far short...

11 May 2023

From: Breaking News

Tenants offered unique 100 per cent mortgage to “escape renting”

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

09 May 2023

From: Breaking News

Surprise as government backs cash help for landlords to meet EPC targets

One of the UK governments has backed a call for private landlords to get cash help to meet new Minimum Energy...

28 April 2023

From: Breaking News

Section 24 tax petition struggles for support with month to go

The Section 24 parliamentary petition, seeking to persuade MPs to reinstate mortgage interest tax relief for landlords, is still struggling for...

05 April 2023

From: Breaking News

Eco-tax breaks for green landlords under consideration - Propertymark

Lettings agents’ body Propertymark says its proposal for tax incentives to be offered for landlords is one measure under consideration by...

08 March 2023

From: Breaking News

Investors forced to sell after failing remortgage affordability

A buy to let mortgage broker is warning landlords that as many as one in three investors fail their lender's affordability...

06 March 2023

From: Breaking News

Forfeiture Cases On The Rise - Landlords’ rights

It has been widely reported that lenders are expecting a rise in the number of homeowners handing back their keys as...

04 March 2023

From: Legislation & Compliance

Lender banning second homes now suspends arrears fees

A building society that last summer scrapped all lending on some holiday homes has now come up with another unusual policy...

27 February 2023

From: Breaking News

Labour’s “a home for £1” idea mocked by leading agent

A Labour Party proposal to sell some long-empty homes to first time buyers for just £1 has been dismissed as the...

22 February 2023

From: Breaking News

Tax Relief Petition passes new milestone but still needs support

The government may already have dismissed it, but the petition wanting landlords to be able to offset mortgage interest against tax...

26 January 2023

From: Breaking News

Mortgage Tax Relief - Government dismisses landlord's petition

A petition signed by well over 28,000 and calling for the reversal of tax measures introduced to penalise landlords has been...

19 January 2023

From: Breaking News

Take in a lodger in 2023 to earn some extra cash

If you’re looking to make some extra cash in 2023 as the cost of living continues to bite, you may consider...

14 January 2023

From: Tax & Finance

Buy To Let Mortgage Clampdown - more scrutiny demanded by Bank

The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority is telling lenders to exercise more scrutiny on loans for buy to let properties. In...

12 January 2023

From: Breaking News

Tax Call To Action - more landlord signatures needed for petition

The petition to secure government action over the Section 24 tax issue affecting landlords has passed the 16,500 benchmark but has...

04 January 2023

From: Breaking News

Stop The Tax Grab - Landlord’s petition to reverse law change

Landlords are being encouraged to sign a petition calling on the government to reverse the section 28 tax change which had...

23 December 2022

From: Breaking News

Labour Mayor recruits 10 to enforce ‘Good Landlord Scheme’

Labour’s Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, is recruiting 10 people to enforce a new initiative he’s calling his ‘Good Landlord...

23 December 2022

From: Breaking News

Tory slams government over second homes and “stuck” first time buyers

A prominent Conservative has described as “infuriating and saddening” the fact that so many Millennials are stuck renting and cannot afford...

12 December 2022

From: Breaking News

Understanding Buy To Let finances – tips for new landlords

Although the property and mortgage markets have been in a state of flux for the past few months, with rising interest...

03 December 2022

From: Tax & Finance

Nationwide reveals tenants’ payments for ‘essential’ accommodation

A breakdown of essential and non-essential spending by individuals, devised by the Nationwide, reveals the extra amount that tenants are paying...

23 November 2022

From: Breaking News

Forget buy to let - try other property investment, landlords urged

A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...

21 November 2022

From: Breaking News

Cost of Living Crisis - why landlords need help

To put it mildly, landlords are very rarely subject to an outpouring of sympathy from the general public. When the economy...

12 November 2022

From: The Big Issues

Interest Rate Hike Today - fears grow of another big rise

There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets today, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...

03 November 2022

From: Breaking News

Rent Caps and Cash Help - what students want from government

The country’s main student body is calling on the government to implement a cap on student rents. The National Union of Students...

01 November 2022

From: Breaking News

Big house price fall in 2023 then years of stagnation - forecast

House prices will fall by 7.9 per cent next year and then will effectively stagnate until 2027 according to a gloomy...

28 October 2022

From: Breaking News

£13m buy to let deal - mortgage firms explain how it worked

A specialist buy to let mortgage supplier has funded a £13m refinancing project. Zephyr Homeloans says the landlord borrowed the sum -...

14 September 2022

From: Breaking News

Brian Love, Head of Broking for Newable Finance

Who are you? I am the Head of Broking for Newable Finance. A specialist commercial finance brokerage. What is Newable Finance? Newable Finance is...

06 September 2022

From: 60 Second Interview

Landlords and the Next Interest Rate Decision

On August 4 the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to raise the base rate from 1.25 to 1.75 per...

03 September 2022

From: Tax & Finance

Frustrated first time buyers may have to continue renting

New data from Zoopla suggests that growing concern about the cost of living crisis and in particular rising interest rates may...

26 August 2022

From: Breaking News

Wrong insulation in a buy to let? It may be unmortgageable…

A warning has been issued that as many as 250,000 homes - some likely to be in the private rental sector...

19 August 2022

From: Breaking News

Fewer mortgages available in rest of 2022 - forecast

Mortgage activity is forecast to fall by six per cent by year-end as the market feels the brunt of interest rate...

17 August 2022

From: Breaking News

Energy Efficiency - Funding Options for Retro-fitting Properties

In the drive for the UK to be net zero by 2050, residential landlords are facing costly green refurbishments.   Already, landlords...

06 August 2022

From: Tax & Finance

Anti-second home sentiment builds as building society stops lending

A building society will no longer lend for the purchase of second homes, saying they reduce the stock available for first...

01 August 2022

From: Breaking News

Lower interest rate for investors in A-to-C EPC rated homes

A residential investment loan has been relaunched with the aim of incentivising investors to invest in energy efficient homes. The Green Investment...

12 July 2022

From: Breaking News

Landlords to be offered incentives at council talk-in

Landlords and owners of empty homes iare being invited to a free event next week to find out more about help...

07 July 2022

From: Breaking News

EPC Green Mortgages - large increase in landlord demand

A prominent buy to let mortgage lender says there’s been a surge of interest in so-called green mortgages linked to good...

16 June 2022

From: Breaking News

Newable Finance launch video campaign ahead of the new EPC legislations for landlords

Newable Finance, the finance brokerage & advisory arm of Newable, launches video advert campaign ahead of the new EPC legislations for...

15 June 2022

From: Sponsored Content

Alec Chohan, Senior Finance Broker at Newable Finance

Who are you? My Name is Alec Chohan, and I am a senior finance broker within the Newable Finance team based in...

07 June 2022

From: 60 Second Interview

Buy To Let mortgage choice strong - but getting more expensive

Independent mortgage sector monitor Moneyfacts says the choice for landlords wanting to borrow remains very strong - but increasingly interest rates...

24 May 2022

From: Breaking News

Eco-Craze - bank marketing cheap buy to let loans linked to EPCs

Gatehouse Bank is the latest mortgage lender to try to woo landlords with preferential rates for buy to let properties with...

03 May 2022

From: Breaking News

Buy To Let loans fall over long term despite recent sector resurgence

Buy To Let may have had a resurgence in the past year but long-term lending patterns suggest landlords have been hit...

28 April 2022

From: Breaking News

Tips For Landlords Entering The Holiday Let Market

Even before the pandemic, we were seeing dramatic changes across the buy-to-let landscape with holiday lets steadily increasing in appeal –...

02 April 2022

From: Top tips & guides

Section 21 scrapped as Gove hands rental power balance to tenants

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper includes a dramatic reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction powers will be...

02 February 2022

From: Breaking News

Why are landlords deliberately excluded from cladding help?

The National Residential Landlords Association is seeking clarification from gov ernment about whether landlords are included in the latest measure to...

19 January 2022

From: Breaking News

New bank tries to woo landlords with four or more properties

A new bank - Recognise - has entered the buy to let market in a bid to win landlords and investors. Its...

06 January 2022

From: Breaking News

Most expensive homes in UK purchased as investments

One of the UK’s most prestigious agencies claims that deals to buy the country’s dearest homes have been negotiated using asset-backed...

05 January 2022

From: Breaking News

Will 2022 present energy efficiency and rent control challenges?

As we enter 2022 the private rented sector can look back on a year which marked the start of its recovery...

18 December 2021

From: The Big Issues

Mortgage lenders stop landlords letting to asylum seekers - claim

An investigation conducted by The Mirror newspaper claims to have found that 55 out of 72 buy to let mortgage lenders...

09 December 2021

From: Breaking News

Energy Special: Can landlords afford to meet new EPC targets?

With currently less than four years before all new tenancies need to be in properties rated EPC ‘C’ or above, there...

04 December 2021

From: The Big Issues

MPs want renewable heating tech in private rental homes

A cross-party survey of MPs shows that they want to scale up the installation of renewable heating technologies in existing homes,...

01 December 2021

From: Breaking News

New BTL lender aims to help landlords “ignored by the big banks”

Recognise Bank has entered the rental market with a new product designed for professional landlords and investors with portfolios of at least...

18 November 2021

From: Breaking News

Portfolio landlords and property investors targeted by new bank

A new bank called Monument wants buy to let portfolio landlords and other ‘serious’ property investors to be amongst its relatively...

16 November 2021

From: Breaking News

Covid Impact on landlords and renters far less than feared

A series of online interviews with landlords suggests far fewer of them have been seriously impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic than...

09 November 2021

From: Breaking News

Interest Rates - what about Unlucky Accidental Landlords?

Many homeowners face situations where they have no other option but to rent out their home. Often there are periods where...

06 November 2021

From: Tax & Finance

Buy to let loans doubled to reflect price and lifestyle changes

Paragon Bank is doubling both the maximum loan amount it lends on an individual property and the total buy to let...

29 October 2021

From: Breaking News

Free advice for landlords on lettings incentives

Landlords and owners of empty homes in North Somerset are invited to a free event next month to find out more...

29 October 2021

From: Breaking News

Another mortgage lender incentivises landlords to Go Green

Foundation Home Loans has launched its new ‘Green ABC+’ fixed rate products for both buy to let and owner occupied mortgages, with...

18 October 2021

From: Breaking News

Why landlords shouldn’t use credit cards to pay for refurbs

Around 20 per cent of landlords surveyed by a bank used a credit card or short-term finance to fund a recent...

13 October 2021

From: Breaking News

Student landlords slammed by PropTech boss for “unfit” homes

A PropTech supplier claims 83 per cent of students have lived in accommodation considered ‘unfit for habitation’ under the Homes Act...

07 October 2021

From: Breaking News

Portfolio landlords most upbeat about income and asset wealth

Some 30 per cent of landlords who plan to remortgage by mid-2022 intent to release equity from their properties according to...

18 August 2021

From: Breaking News

Self-employed tenants unlikely to quit rental sector for some time

The latest study of the mortgager market by Aldermore Bank suggests the self-employed are finding it harder than ever to get...

20 July 2021

From: Breaking News

The 7 metrics all landlords should be tracking

Understanding the exact position of your property portfolio is crucial, this means, you need to   get constant access to accurate information. The...

16 July 2021

From: Sponsored Content

Mortgage boost for landlords with buy to let deals on the rise

New research from online buy to let mortgage broker Property Master reveals there are currently 41 BTL mortgages at the record...

15 July 2021

From: Breaking News

Threat to small-scale landlords as Lloyds Bank buys and lets flats

It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...

21 June 2021

From: Breaking News

Funding platform matches landlords with appropriate lenders

A PropTech platform called Pitch 4 Finance has launched to help landlords and other investors source the best deals to finance...

18 June 2021

From: Breaking News

Agents back landlords' plea for government help over Covid arrears

Propertymark, the trade body for letting agents, has joined landlords in writing to junior housing minister Eddie Hughes to call for...

17 June 2021

From: Breaking News

Surge in tenants seeking charity advice - claim

A charity claims it’s seen increasing numbers of private tenants seeking help, just as the bailiff enforced eviction ban has ended...

01 June 2021

From: Breaking News

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