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The number of buy to let property purchases in the UK fell 14% from 224,700 in 2022/23 to 193,700 in the...

Almost one in three buy to let landlords are set to sell up in the next 12 months. That’s the shock statistic...

Propertymark wants the Bank of England to cut interest rates following data showing soaring mortgage arrears and repossessions. Lenders trade body UK...

A new Bank of England survey has confirmed a growing outflow of landlords from the private rental sector since 2020. The Bank’s...

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

Just as transactions in the mainstream market ramp up for spring and summer, so enquiries about buy to let mortgages have...

Leaders Romans Group is offering its landlord clients a new investment service. ‘Smart Investment’, powered by GetGround, is described as a fully...

The finance arm of LSL Property Services - known as Pivotal Growth - has snapped up a specialist mortgage service. Pivotal Growth...

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

ARLA Propertymark is warning the government that new energy efficiency targets for EPCs could stifle buy to let investment in future. In...

Research from independent financial service market monitor Moneyfacts shows a small but encouraging increase in the number of buy to let mortgages...

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

HSBC says its unable to accept any new buy to let mortgage applications during the Coronavirus crisis. The same applies to applications...

Data from independent mortgage monitor Moneyfacts shows that there’s been a big drop in the choice of mortgage for buy to...

There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...

Mortgage costs in the buy to let market have continued to fall over the last three months - a trend seen across...

Buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage rates continue to drop but at a slower rate than in previous months, according to the latest Property...

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...

The government says thousands of families could benefit from changes to mortgage rules announced by Metro Bank. Currently the bank prevents landlords...

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...

Buy to let mortgage costs remain stable with little movement recorded over the past three months according to a market snapshot...

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...

Buy to let may have been in the doldrums in recent years thanks to new taxes and stricter regulations but there’s...

A survey of mortgage experts conducted by one of the largest specialist buy to let lenders suggests that Brexit is hitting...

With good news in the buy to let sector in short supply, here’s a promising start to the week - a...

Data produced by Sainsbury’s Bank Mortgages gives a trend-bucking upbeat assessment of investors’ renewed interest in buy to let.  Figures siuggest that...

A new analysis of the buy to let market forecasts more bad news for agents, landlords and investors over the next...

London is back as the most popular part of the UK for buy to let investment according to an analysis undertaken...

The cost of buy to let mortgages remain at record lows and - with little movement in costs and rates over...

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 number of buy to let mortgage products on the open market has passed the 2,000 mark for the first time.  This...

The successful transfer of £12 billion worth of buy-to-let mortgages has been completed.  Last year, Blackstone and Prudential purchased the book of...

The number of buy to let properties in arrears has risen again according to figures released by UK Finance, formerly the...

One of Britain’s best known and highest profile buy to let specialist lenders says the number of new BTL mortgages being...

The autumn's Prudential Regulation Authority changes, coupled with months of rate rise predictions, seem to have had little effect on the cost of...

LSL Property Services, which owns Your Move and Reeds Rains lettings and estate agencies, is investing in an online buy to...

Leeds Building Society is the latest major lender to reveal changes to buy to let lending ahead of new rules coming...

Buy to let mortgage competition is showing no signs of stopping, thus giving one of the few pieces of good news...

Investors in buy to let are the marketing target for a service which describes itself as the UK’s first digital mortgage...

Despite the challenges faced by the buy to let sector, mortgage companies are fighting hard for business - and two and...

There is good news to end a difficult week for the letting agency industry - there’s been a further drop in...

The chief executive of financial consultancy Clayton Euro Risk says changes soon coming in to tighten the criteria applied to buy...

The costs of buy To let mortgages have fallen by as much as eight per cent over the past six months.   Software...

Buy to let mortgage arrears are set to fall below 7,000 by the end of the year according to one lender’s...

A warning is being issued that the types of mortgages still being extended to buy to let investors risks them becoming...

Around a fifth of investors plan to sell their buy to let properties this year, thanks to the recent measures against...

A specialist buy to let lender says some mainstream mortgage companies are over-charging borrowers who have incorporated in order to minimise...

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

A survey of 500 landlords suggest that 10 per cent of them have had difficulties in securing a mortgage over the...

New figures from a landlords’ organisation show that mortgage repayments are easily the biggest outgoing for a large proportion of landlords.  The...

The specialist buy to let mortgage sector is set to be an unexpected victim of the buy to let tax changes...

The Bank of England says excessive lending to fund buy to let purchases could pose a risk to the financial well-being...