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A leading business analyst is firmly blaming interest rates for the see-saw in house prices seen in recent indices. The latest, from...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is calling on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to use next week’s Budget as an opportunity to incentivise landlords to make properties...
28 February 2024
From: Breaking News
One of the biggest parts of buying a holiday home is securing a holiday let mortgage which can differ substantially to...
24 February 2024
From: Agent Advice
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
One of the MPs behind the disastrous mini-Budget - which directly led to soaring interest rates - is to stand down...
07 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The average price of a home in Wales fell to £234,086 at the end 2023 following continued economic and financial pressures,...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Average new seller asking prices rose 1.3 per cent between December and January - the biggest rise at this time of...
15 January 2024
From: Breaking News
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
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
Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Paragon Bank has launched new five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages with nil product fees. Rates start at 5.80 per cent and there is...
19 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is building the hype ahead of its much-vaunted Boxing Day listing of new properties to the market. The portal claims that...
15 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - but just as it has done this, it’s revealed asking prices have dropped...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
House prices fell 1.2 per cent in the past year, according to a new Zoopla report out today, with average discounts...
28 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Savills is warning that the average UK house price is projected to fall by a further 3.0 per cent in 2024...
08 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Average house prices are now falling 2.9 per cent annually in England and Wales according to the monthly e.surv index. Yorkshire and...
17 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The Generation Rent group of activists has written an open letter to mortgage firm chief executives asking for special dispensation for...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords and brokers are up in arms about alleged profiteering by buy to let mortgage lenders’ arrangement fees. These jumped last autumn...
15 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The number of property transactions fuelled by the mortgage sector has fallen by 42 per cent so far this year. Britain’s more...
01 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Property investment dates back centuries – millennia, even. As a fundamental necessity for post-nomadic humanity, residential and commercial real estate have...
29 July 2023
From: Tax & Finance
Today's inflation figures effectively seal the fate of the housing market for the rest of this year - including the crucial...
19 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The average price of homes coming to the market have dipped slightly once again, according to Rightmove. The newly-marketed properties are some...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Britain has suffered the worst house price fall out of any major European economy according to a report from property consultancy Knight...
07 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has announced its latest change in base rate, which is used by most lenders to determine interest...
22 June 2023
From: Breaking News
There’s been widespread anger from the mortgage broker community in response to NatWest’s decision to make buy to let stress tests...
14 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The Halifax says house prices were flat in May, but fell 1.0 per cent in a year - the first annual...
10 June 2023
From: The Big Issues
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
The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...
23 March 2023
From: Breaking News
In the last three months of 2022, mortgages agreed for the coming months were down by a third from the previous...
18 March 2023
From: Tax & Finance
The Financial Conduct Authority has set out ways in which mortgage lenders can help customers struggling with payments - but landlords...
13 March 2023
From: Breaking News
It looks like the buy to let mortgage market has bounced back after the disastrous mini-Budget. Moneyfacts, an independent mortgage monitor, says...
07 March 2023
From: Breaking News
House prices rose by 9.8 per cent year-on-year in December compared with the same month in 2021, the Office for National...
16 February 2023
From: Breaking News
A new crowdfunding platform says it’s opening up property investing to “a whole new generation.” Allbricks claims it’s disrupting “the antiquated mortgage...
07 February 2023
From: Breaking News
An upbeat trading statement from buy to let mortgage lender Paragon suggests that the sector is relatively healthy, but losing many...
08 December 2022
From: Breaking News
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
There’s been a dramatic short-term improvement in the number of mortgage products available for buy to let landlords. The independent mortgage market...
30 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Buy to let broker Mortgages for Business is seeking to reassure landlords worries that the values of their properties will crash. The...
30 September 2022
From: Breaking News
A range of mortgage brokers are reporting an increase in enquiries from private tenants who have been given first refusal to...
07 September 2022
From: Breaking News
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
New research from an online buy to let mortgage broker shows that average rates for some typical deals favoured by landlords...
16 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords who use the Moneyfacts service to help find the most competitive offers on the mortgage market can now benefit from...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, wants a form of Right To Buy to be given to private tenants. Right To Buy...
29 July 2022
From: Breaking News
New research showed a large month-on-month increase in the cost of typical buy to let fixed rate mortgages popular with landlords. Online...
14 July 2022
From: Breaking News
The latest Bank of England base rate increase will serve only to increase the pain on landlords, it’s been claimed. This is...
17 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Whether it’s increasing the amount we recycle, choosing sustainable products, or reducing our carbon footprint by limiting the amount we travel,...
11 June 2022
From: Rental Reform
A prominent buy to let mortgage expert says yesterday base rate rise by the Bank of England is expected to hit...
06 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Yesterday Landlord Today reported that there was now a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage...
26 January 2022
From: Breaking News
There’s a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage products available for current or new landlords. The...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Our housing market needs a long-term vision, and one which is co-ordinated across government and the wider industry. And it is...
22 January 2022
From: The Big Issues
Landlords are being warned that the next Bank of England base rate rise, possibly at its next meeting in early February,...
10 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Only six per cent of brokers questioned in a survey have ever sold a green mortgage, despite the high public profile...
11 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says there’s been a big increase in choice available to landlords wanting to enter the holiday...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
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
There’s good news for landlords considering investing or refinancing in the buy to let sector as interest rates are beginning to...
25 May 2021
From: Breaking News
The mortgage market is becoming increasingly competitive for landlords who want to take advantage of offers as the economy comes out...
27 April 2021
From: Breaking News
There’s been a surge in the number of mortgage products aimed at landlords in the holiday let market. There’s been a 45...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Buy to let mortgage choice has increased for the fifth month in a row, according to independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts. There...
31 March 2021
From: Breaking News
Specialist buy to let lender Paragon has taken the unusual step of issuing a so-called Green Bond to fund attempts to make...
26 March 2021
From: Breaking News
An online mortgage broker specialising in buy to let has launched a new tool using Artificial Intelligence to show landlords how...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News
A growing number of buy-to-let landlords are looking to take advantage of cheaper borrowing rates, growing demand from renters, and the...
30 September 2020
From: Breaking News
The Nottingham for Intermediaries has temporarily withdrawn its mortgage range. Nikki Warren-Dean, head of intermediary sales, said: "The aim of this temporary measure...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News
There has been a drop in buy-to-let lending, but the decline is less dramatic than the general purchase market, according to the latest...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News
SimplyBiz Mortgages has added buy-to-let lender Zephyr Homeloans to its mortgage panel. Zephyr offers standard and specialist products to both individuals and...
03 September 2020
From: Breaking News
There appears to have been an increase in demand for buy-to-let property since the chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday, but...
19 August 2020
From: Breaking News
A growing number of international property investors are expected to increase their presence in the UK buy-to-let market over the next...
07 August 2020
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let properties in the UK are currently in high demand and there appears to be plenty of room for further growth,...
10 July 2020
From: Breaking News
There are emerging signs of recovery in the buy-to-let mortgage market, following the major initial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdown,...
08 July 2020
From: Breaking News
Mortgage advisor jobs - shortage of advisors to meet demand The mortgage market, like all other parts of the property industry,...
25 June 2020
From: Sponsored Content
Mortgage approvals slumped to the lowest on record in April as the UK spent the month in the coronavirus lockdown, the...
03 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let is no longer the investment of choice for some people, new data suggests. The buy-to-let share of all online mortgage searches...
02 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Skipton International has returned to remortgage lending for overseas buyers looking to invest in the UK buy-to-let market. Skipton International had recently...
19 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Hundreds of buy-to-let mortgage products have been withdrawn from the market due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to Property Master. The online buy-to-let...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News
An online comparison site has been launched by Buy-to-Let Direct with a view to helping landlords make the right decisions when...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News
The State Bank of India’s (SBI UK) buy-to-let product range is now available through Legal and General Mortgage Club. The company provides...
13 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Hodge has introduced a new mortgage aimed at those wanting to acquire a holiday let property in the UK. The mortgage, which...
04 December 2019
From: Breaking News
A significant number of people renting in the UK say they will never be able to afford a home, according to...
08 November 2019
From: Breaking News
The average homeowner in this country could be £352,500 better off than the average private renter over the next 30 years, even...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let mortgage approvals increased in July, up 5.5% year-on-year, suggesting that market conditions are improving, the latest UK Finance report shows. There...
18 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Take-up of buy-to-let mortgages slowed in June as economic and political uncertainty caused some buy-to-let investors to adopt a ‘wait and...
16 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Habito has instructed Pepper UK to provide the end-to-end servicing of its new portfolio of buy-to-let mortgages. The online mortgage broker announced...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Leek United has made a number of changes to its lending policy across its retirement, buy-to-let and remortgage product ranges. In terms...
17 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Habito has launched its own range of buy-to-let products for individual landlords. The Habito-branded mortgages, which will be available through its new...
10 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Vida Homeloans has announced the release of a series of new specialist mortgage products, including buy-to-let deals. The products include a 75%...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Landbay has revamped its range of buy-to-let mortgage products for professional landlords and reduced rates in a bid to win more...
03 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let mortgage activity increased slightly in April, with landlord investors taking out 5,100 new buy-to-let home purchase mortgages, up from 5,000...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News
West One Loans has launched a new range of first charge buy-to-let mortgage products, including both standard and specialist deals. The new...
05 June 2019
From: Breaking News
The Mortgage Lender has launched a range of buy-to-let mortgage products available at up to 80% loan-to-value (LTV). The new deals, some...
23 April 2019
From: Breaking News
There has been a significant increase in the cost of popular fixed term buy-to-let mortgage rates, fresh data shows. The latest research...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced a fee-free two-year fixed rate buy-to-let product at 60% loan-to-value with a borrowing rate of...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News
The average cost of three out of six categories of fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage has increased over the past month, while...
05 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Barclays has cut rates across its buy-to-let range by up to 0.26%. Buy-to-let purchase and remortgage products now start at 2.3% for...
23 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Barclays Mortgages has launched a series of rate reductions across a number of buy-to-let – and residential – ranges for both...
09 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Mortgage lenders have reduced the cost of most of their fixed rate buy-to-let deals for landlords over the past 12 months,...
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let mortgage activity continued to slow in October, as fewer landlords took out home loans as a result of tax changes...
13 December 2018
From: Breaking News
Mortgage lenders have increased their fixed rate buy-to-let deals for landlords, according to Property Master. The firm’s mortgage tracker, which follows a...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Paragon has added to its buy-to-let mortgage range to include mortgages for expat landlords with rental property in the UK and...
06 November 2018
From: Breaking News
3mc has teamed up with Pepper Money to launch some new exclusive mortgage products that are up to 0.1% cheaper than...
26 October 2018
From: Breaking News
The proportion of buy-to-let remortgaging hit a record high in the third quarter of the year, as more landlords looked to...