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

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

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

There’s been widespread anger from the mortgage broker community in response to NatWest’s decision to make buy to let stress tests...

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

There was a notable increase in the percentage of landlords selecting shorter-term buy-to-let mortgage products in the final quarter of last...

The Tory leadership contest is well underway with just two candidates - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt - left in the...

Specialist buy-to-let lender Landbay has conducted an independent Bank of England stress test to project the impact of a major economic...

It’s now three years since the then Conservative Chancellor George Osborne introduced a series of measures aimed, principally, at cooling the...

Draconian tax changes applying to buy-to-let investors will leave many private landlords with little alternative but to evict tenants and sell...

Over the past year, the government has introduced 3% Stamp Duty levy, new stress tests for portfolio landlords and started to...

Tougher buy-to-let lending criteria, introduced in September last year by the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA), is making it...

Specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender Landbay has announced that it is changing its underlying portfolio stress tests for portfolio landlords. It will now...

The phasing out of mortgage interest relief and tougher mortgage lending conditions contributed to what was a rather difficult 2017 for...

Leeds Building Society has confirmed that it will continue to accept buy-to-let mortgage applications from portfolio landlords despite the buy-to-let lending...

The number of buy-to-let loans secured by buy-to-let landlords increased in January to the second highest monthly level since the introduction...

Paragon Bank witnessed a sharp decline in its buy-to-let lending in the final quarter last year following the introduction of more...

The Bank of Ireland has become the latest lender to announce that it is increasing its rental stress rate for buy-to-let...

A number of mortgage lenders have now revised their affordability criteria, in line with the Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) supervisory statement...

Buy-to-let lending has fallen significantly as tougher lending rules and the introduction of the 3% stamp duty surcharge on additional homes...

Fleet Mortgages has launched three new limited company products for those borrowers using corporate structures to purchase or remortgage property. The buy-to-let...

The Mortgage Works is the latest lender to announce that it is increasing its rental stress rate for buy-to-let landlords as...

But-to-let landlords face paying an extra £6,700 on their mortgages when new rules forcing them to take out longer term loans...

The government’s decision to grant the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee greater powers over the buy-to-let market looks set to...

Buy-to-let lending will fall by as much as 20% over the next two years to reach around £33bn by the end...

Buy-to-let landlords could be forced to stump up more than 60% deposits in some locations if all lenders introduce stricter borrowing requirements,...

The Bank of England has said that if the buy-to-let sector threatens Britain’s financial stability it “stands ready to take action...