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The chief executive of Purplebricks says he’s backing Labour’s house building plans because of the state of the private rental sector.  Sam...

Paragon Bank has reduced rates on its core range of buy-to-let mortgages, taking 15bps off 10 products, in addition to launching...

Inflation is expected to drop sharply in the April figures due out this week. The Office for Budget Responsibility and Bank of...

The Bank of England has kept its base rate at 5.25 per cent but markets forecast this will drop from the summer as...

A leading lettings agency says 2023 was a record-breaking year for rental growth.   The average rent on a newly let property in...

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 In...

HSBC is increasing its maximum mortgage term to 40 years for buy to let, purchase, remortgaging and additional borrowing. Second homes will...

The equity release market has expanded by 27 per cent to hit a record £5.58 billion of new lending last year,...

A specialist buy to let mortgage broker is urging prospective investors to buy sooner rather than later if they want to...

Landlords who are remortgaging are currently doing so primarily to build a war chest. That’s the view of mortgage brokerage Mortgages for...

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

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

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...

A leading buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...

There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...

The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of...

The number of buy to let lenders lending to limited companies has risen by 47 per cent over the past year,...

The proportion of buy to let investors looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to respected specialist mortgage...

No fewer than 93 per cent of landlords financing buy to let property chose a fixed rate mortgage in the second...

Figures from UK Finance show there were 5,000 new buy to let house purchase mortgages completed in April - the latest data...

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 landlords re-mortgaging to release money for home improvements has reached a record high according to Countrywide. In the last...

The independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says some buy to let mortgage rates have gone back to record lows. The monitor says...

Almost three-quarters of buy to let mortgage transactions made by landlords operating via limited companies in the final quarter of last...

There’s been another large increase in the number of buy to let mortgages sought by limited companies - they accounted for...

The National Landlords Association is urging buy to let investors to consider remortgaging in the very near future ahead of new...

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

Mortgage Advice Bureau increased revenue by 15 per cent to £49m in the first half of 2017, and reports that the...

Asking rents outside London continue to hold up despite the market having more available properties, according to Rightmove.   Prices rose 2.8 per...

The number of buy-to-let mortgage loans fell by over a fifth during April, according to the latest figures from the Council...

There has been a three per cent increase in remortgaging levels amongst buy to let investors in March according to data...

One of the biggest lenders to the buy to let community, Santander, is to lower its affordability assessments from next Wednesday.   It...

Data from the first three months of this year suggests that investors are increasingly purchasing smaller, cheaper properties. Specialist lender Mortgages for...

Gross buy to let lending increased in November to the highest monthly level since the stamp duty surcharge was introduced in...

Buy to let activity has contracted by over an eighth in the past 12 months according to Connells Group's survey and...

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

There is more evidence that the buy to let sector has experienced a surge of activity as investors rush to complete...

Connells says that between December 2014 and December 2015 the number of valuations conducted for buy-to-let properties soared by 86 per...

Buy to let loans could outstrip remortgaging within a matter of weeks as landlords rush to beat the April 1 stamp...

An analysis by a national newspaper shows that investors purchasing buy to let properties with mortgages are likely to lose money...

Buy To Let mortgage lending grew 17 per cent in 2015 but faces a potential slump after April, according to property...

Mortgage lending to buy to let landlords has increased by volume and by value in the third quarter of the year, according...

Buy to let lending continues to show a large rise compared to the same time last year according to new figures from...

The rise and rise of buy to let continues apace with the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showing...