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Houses in Multiple Occupation are making up an increasing percentage of buy-to-let business, according specialist lender Shawbrook. In both 2022 and 2023,...
15 April 2024
From: Breaking News
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
In September the Prime Minister announced that landlords will no longer be required to meet the minimum EPC minimum energy rating...
09 March 2024
From: Agent Advice
The Suffolk Building Society has launched new mortgage products aimed at private landlords who are planning refurbishments, such as a new...
18 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Some 74 per cent of buy to let landlords are optimistic about the property market in the next 12 months, it’s...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Many landlords say they’re set to expand investments in 2024 despite facing up to 80 per cent higher costs in the...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A respected financial body is warning that landlords face rising costs of up to 80 per cent in the next two...
08 December 2023
From: Breaking News
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
No fewer than 88 per cent of portfolio landlords have added to their portfolios in the last six months, despite market...
17 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Specialist lender Landbay has issued another upbeat assessment of the buy to jet sector, bucking the trend of most market reports. It...
27 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A property entrepreneur is seeking up to 200 portfolio landlords or developers to invest in his company. Jamie Lester says the offer to...
04 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The Mortgage Lender has two new buy-to-let products. These include a standard two-year fixed, with an initial rate of 4.69 per cent...
27 September 2023
From: Breaking News
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
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Paragon Bank is the latest to reduce mortgage rates for landlords. It’s cut rates across 22 buy-to-let mortgage products, with fixed deals...
08 September 2023
From: Breaking News
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
A bank chief has used a national newspaper interview to make a stand in favour of buy to let landlords and...
29 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Scores of portfolio landlords are incorporating their property portfolio as limited companies, which could save hundreds of thousands of pounds on...
26 August 2023
From: Tax & Finance
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
Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...
12 August 2023
From: Agent Advice
Over the past year, we have witnessed an increase in the proportion of landlords opting to acquire properties through limited companies. This...
15 July 2023
From: Tax & Finance
Landlords with some of the country’s largest portfolios say they expect to pay £500,000 or more in the next year on...
03 July 2023
From: Breaking News
I have read a great deal in the media recently about a mass landlord ‘exodus’. The story goes along the lines of...
20 May 2023
From: Rental Reform
Analysis by professional cash buyer and portfolio landlord, LandlordBuyer (part of Open Property Group), has revealed what costs make up most...
07 March 2023
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As many buy-to-let landlords continue to question their place in the market with ever increasing legislation, finance and management costs, one...
26 January 2023
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A lender has revealed that it has arranged 14 mortgages in one go for a Buy to Let landlord with over...
24 January 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
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
Just over half of professional landlords with 10 or more investment properties have no succession plan in place, risking the future...
31 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A Bristol landlord has been banned from letting properties after repeatedly failing to meet the required standards. Naomi Knapp, a portfolio landlord...
22 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A portfolio landlord’s deal for an £11m re-financing package has been struck with a bank. The landlord was looking to refinance 63...
18 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords who use the Property Hub Lets online agency are in for a change - in future, their properties will be...
11 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A large proportion of portfolio landlords - those with four or more properties - plan to expand their portfolios in the...
25 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords with larger portfolios are more likely to increase rent than small-scale landlords. A poll by The Landlord Works shows that 75...
31 May 2022
From: Breaking News
The government says major house builders have agreed to spend £2 billion on fixing the dangerous cladding on their own buildings,...
14 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A fledgling trade group its holding an online PropTech conference later this month. The Portfolio Landlords Action Network - PLAN - is...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
New research suggests that some landlords are now deliberately choosing to buy properties with weak EPCs in order to upgrade and...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Experts are predicting that the exclusion of large scale landlords from cladding relief may lead to significant delays in some safety...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The Portfolio Landlords Action Network - PLAN - is to hold its first tech exhibition with five companies explaining their benefits...
07 February 2022
From: Breaking News
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
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
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
I am the Chair of PLAN - the Portfolio Landlords Action Group - which had its formal launch this week. People...
13 November 2021
From: Rental Reform
There is a fear that work required to bring rental units up to new Energy Performance Certificate levels by 2025 could...
10 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Rajiv Singh |Founder & CEO RentOnCloud www.rentoncloud.com Tell me about RentOnCloud, what does...
04 November 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
The proportion of landlords feeling optimistic about different aspects of letting is at the highest level for five years. As part of research...
04 November 2021
From: Breaking News
A new trade body called PLAN launches this month with the aim of representing large scale Portfolio Landlords with 75 properties...
01 November 2021
From: Breaking News
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
Private and commercial bank Arbuthnot Latham has set out what it considers to be the 10 easy mistakes which some landlords...
22 October 2021
From: Breaking News
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
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
Landlords have been given a boost from an unlikely source - HM Revenue & Customs. HMRC has given landlords and other businesses...
27 September 2021
From: Breaking News
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
Some 46 per cent of landlords reduced monthly rent payments for their tenants because of the pandemic, according to research from...
03 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A controversial PropTech service that proposes agents charge prospective tenants £30 or more simply to view a property on the market,...
28 July 2021
From: Breaking News
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
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Paragon Bank has launched a range of 80 per cent loan to value buy to let mortgages specifically for properties with...
30 March 2021
From: Breaking News
It might be thought that banks have made significant mistakes of their own in the recent past - including triggering the...
25 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A prominent buy to let lender has launched a range of products to help landlords improve the energy efficiency of rental...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A portfolio management platform has launched an Open Banking integration for landlords. The Open Banking concept as it applies to the rental...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Popular buy to let lender Fleet Mortgages’ latest rental yield index shows the consequences of increasing property prices in many regions...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Barclays has withdrawn its product for portfolio landlords and hiked rates across a range of buy-to-let deals in a bid to...
29 July 2020
From: Breaking News
The Mortgage Lender (TML) has scrapped multiple application fees and cut its completion fee on portfolio applications to 1.2%, down from...
17 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Barclays has made changes to some of its buy-to-let products to ensure its proposition is in line with existing market conditions. The...
16 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Virgin Money has launched a wide range of new products, with lending up to 80% loan-to-value (LTV) available on buy-to-let cases. Virgin...
01 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Paragon has expanded its buy-to-let product offering by introducing a new range of 70% loan-to-value (LTV) two- and five-year fixed rate...
15 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Paragon has introduced a new one-year buy-to-let discounted SVR product to support new and existing landlord customers through the coronavirus uncertainty. The...
04 May 2020
From: Breaking News
While some lenders, such as HSBC, have stopped all buy-to-let activity during the Covid-19 outbreak due to limitations on physical valuations,...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News
With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to escalate, Barclays has announced that it is withdrawing all portfolio buy-to-let products and is no...
26 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Paragon’s specialist portfolio buy-to-let lending grew during the final quarter of 2019. Specialist buy-to-let lending was 1.1% higher year-on-year at £375.4m, whilst...
31 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let landlords currently looking to buy property are targeting Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) more than any other property type, according...
23 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Landbay, the buy-to-let mortgage lender, has joined forces with The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) to provide landlords using certain...
21 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
Paragon has reduced borrowing rates across its range of buy-to-let mortgage products, available at up to 80% loan-to-value. The deals, which are suitable...
07 January 2020
From: Breaking News
There will be further growth in portfolio and complex buy-to-let lending in 2020, Paragon predicts. There has been greater demand over the...
24 December 2019
From: Breaking News
A significant number of landlords plan to remortgage over the next year, fresh research by BDRC, on behalf of Precise Mortgages,...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Fleet Mortgages has cut rates to two of its 80% loan-to-value (LTV) products in both its standard and HMO product ranges. The...
03 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Paragon has reported a sharp rise in specialist landlord business, according to its full year result. The mortgage lender has seen specialist...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News
If you’re an existing landlord with bad credit issues looking to remortgage your buy to let property or perhaps buy a...
20 November 2019
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Habito has added portfolio landlord mortgages to its buy-to-let product range. Rates are available from 2.54% for individuals and 2.59% for those...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News
Paragon has launched a new range of buy-to-let purchase and remortgage products for portfolio and non-portfolio landlords, with rates discounted for...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News
Foundation Home Loans has unveiled a number of rate reductions across a range of buy-to-let products by up to 45 basis...
14 November 2019
From: Breaking News
The Leeds Building Society has announced a new buy-to-let mortgage product and a series of rate reductions. The new product is an...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Foundation Home Loans has launched a new five-year buy-to-let mortgage product aimed at landlords who seek rate certainty but with a...
03 October 2019
From: Breaking News
The majority of landlords are most likely to source their next buy-to-let mortgage from their existing broker, new research shows. According to...
01 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Coventry for intermediaries has reduced rates on its five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages by up to 0.26%. Five-year rates now start at...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Selina Finance has introduced a new property investment credit facility aimed at experienced property investors and landlords. The digital secured lender has...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News
There was an increase in the number of landlords reporting growth in tenant demand in the third quarter of the year. Paragon’s...
20 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Foundation Home Loans has launched two new five-year buy-to-let fixed rate products and reduced rates across other products in its range. Highlights...
19 September 2019
From: Breaking News
NatWest Intermediary Solutions has made amendments to its buy-to-let calculations and will now use actual rather than projected letting agent costs...
11 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Landbay has announced a new partnership with the Next Intelligence mortgage club, Mortgage Intelligence, Mortgage Next and FYB Network brands that...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Coventry for Intermediaries has cut fixed rates on a selection of its buy-to-let mortgage products by up to 0.21%. Highlights include two-year...
04 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Paragon has launched several new mortgage products for portfolio and non-portfolio landlords. Products include a 75% loan-to-value (LTV) two-year fix at 3.55%...
16 August 2019
From: Breaking News
NatWest has reduced rates on some buy-to-let and residential products. On the lender’s buy-to-let switcher there are reductions of up to 0.15%...
02 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Paragon has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range, offering lower interest rates, no up-front fees and £350 cashback on selected products. The new...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Most landlords feel optimistic about the existing UK buy-to-let environment, fresh research suggests. The study by Cambridge and Counties Bank showed that...
25 June 2019
From: Breaking News
There has been a significant increase in both portfolio landlord and limited company buy-to-let business over the past 12 months, according...
11 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Coventry for Intermediaries has enhanced the number of buy-to-let mortgages permitted with the group from three to five, doubled the maximum...
20 May 2019
From: Breaking News
Barclays has launched a new range of fee-free buy-to-let mortgage products. The bank has also reduced rates on a selection of buy-to-let...