Richard Rowntree is managing director mortgages of Paragon Bank
Despite the pandemic’s emergence in 2019, it is 2020 that will go down in history as the year changed by coronavirus.
I’m...
Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC
What a year, and what a challenge, in 2020; it’s hard to put into words exactly what the impact of the coronavirus pandemic has...
Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC
The stamp duty holiday announced in July for properties up to £500,000 in England provided a welcome boost to the housing market, allowing it...
Jane Simpson is managing director at TBMC
A month is a long time in the buy-to-let mortgage market, although COVID-19 has added a certain feeling of Groundhog Day to our lives,...
Bob Young is chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages
There are many who might wish to deny it, but the housing market remains one of the key drivers of the UK...
Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC
A month is a long time in the buy-to-let mortgage market, which has always been a dynamic sector that continually changes in line with...
Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC
Over the last couple of months there have been many conversations around the onus on students to pay rent for university accommodation during the...
Jeff Knight is director of marketing at Foundation Home Loans
In scanning the buy-to-let (BTL) news section on the Mortgage Introducer website, it’s uplifting to see such a slew of...
Bob Young is chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages
Many have talked about the qualities required by mortgage market stakeholders throughout this period in order to successfully ‘exit’ themselves post-pandemic in...
Ying Tan is founder and chief executive of Dynamo
With many lenders returning to the market on the back of the resumption of physical valuations, the buy-to-let (BTL) marketplace has sprung...
Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC
The buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage market has, unsurprisingly, experienced significant turbulence since the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown, meaning the profile of lenders and products...
Jeff Knight is director of marketing at Foundation Home Loans
Here at Foundation Home Loans, we recently teamed up with Mortgage Introducer on a webinar focused on working through the...
Bob Young is chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages
There is clearly a great appetite for statistics and data analysis within, and around, the UK housing and mortgage market, simply because...
Ying Tan is founder and chief executive of Dynamo
Despite enduring some tough weeks, it was good to see the government acknowledge some of the issues surrounding the private rented sector...
Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC
As everyone in the UK is adjusting to the societal changes being imposed due to COVID-19, landlords will also be considering the financial impact...
Jeff Knight is director of marketing at Foundation Home Loans
As we continue to operate in unprecedented times, the residential and private rented sectors will come under even more intense...
Ying Tan is founder and chief executive of Dynamo
At the moment it’s tough to know what the next day will bring, or where to start when focusing on a particular...
Bob Young is chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages
Writing this in advance of the April issue of Mortgage Introducer has understandably been somewhat difficult.
Indeed, by the time you read...
Alan Cleary is group managing director of One Savings Bank
In these extraordinary times, landlords, like everyone else, can be forgiven if their minds are elsewhere. However, despite everything that’s going...
Ying Tan is founder and chief executive of Dynamo
Last month I stated that I hoped the government will not target landlords further – in terms of additional regulatory reforms or...
Bob Young is chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages
In a housing market that is so regionalised, it’s very difficult to make generalist assumptions or predictions, or indeed to talk about...
Jeff Knight is director of marketing at Foundation Home Loans
The Boris Bounce or Brexit Bounce – whichever you prefer, if either - are cited as having a positive effect...
Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC
There has been a swathe of tax and regulatory changes impacting on the buy-to-let sector in recent years which may have affected the perception...
Bob Young is chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages
It has certainly been an interesting start to the year, with a degree of positivity around the UK housing market that wasn’t...
Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC
As the end of the financial year approaches, buy-to-let investors will be mindful that mortgage interest tax relief will be phased out completely in...
Alan Cleary is managing director of Precise Mortgages
The start of a new year – a new decade for that matter – usually brings a round of predictions from industry experts....
Jeff Knight is director of marketing at Foundation Home Loans
In most walks of life, a request to deliver ‘more of the same, please’ would be seen as a positive....
Paul Adams is sales director at Pepper Money
Few areas of the market attracts quite as much commentary as buy-to-let, possibly because of the sheer volume or regulatory and taxation changes...
Anita Arch is head of mortgage sales at Saffron Building Society
For many, the opportunity to live and work abroad has great appeal.
However, becoming an ‘expat’ comes with a myriad...
Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC
It is expected that gross buy-to-let lending in 2019 will be recorded at around £37bn but what are the prospects for this sector in...
Ying Tan is founder and chief executive of Dynamo
The UK housing market is a multi-faceted beast containing hundreds of micro marketplaces.
Each have their own collection of conditions and challenges which...
Bob Young is chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages
Elections by their very nature are divisive events and, given our political climate over the past few years, they tend to be...
Jeff Knight is director of marketing at Foundation Home Loans
I recently put together a presentation for one of our distribution partners and an adviser-based audience.
This provided a great...
Alan Cleary is managing director of Precise Mortgages
I'm not typically one for Mystic Meg-style predictions, but this year I think there are a few trends that are likely to persist...
Ken Hale is head of lending at Harpenden Building Society
As sterling continues to come under pressure, and speculation rises about the ease of travel to other parts of Europe, the...
Jane Simpson is managing director at TBMC
The buy-to-let mortgage market has come under pressure in recent years due to the multitude of tax and regulatory changes aimed at the sector.
However,...
Ying Tan is founder and chief executive at Dynamo
Last month I looked at how the value attached to the advice process should never be underestimated. This was alongside the importance...
Bob Young is chief executive officer at Fleet Mortgages
In our market there can be a tendency to put the cart before the horse, especially when it comes to analysing and...
Alan Cleary is group managing director at Precise Mortgages
I always tend to take stories which contain statistics with a big pinch of salt. I’ve been around long enough to know...
Jeff Knight is director of marketing at Foundation Home Loans
We’re all acutely aware of the uncertainty that exists within political circles and the UK economy.
This means that buy-to-let lenders are...
Chris Maggs is senior commercial manager at Accord Buy To Let
After what feels like many months of negative press on the buy-to-let market, the most recent lending figures from UK...
Ying Tan is chief executive of Dynamo
We’re all at the coalface of the advice process and used to seeking answers to some difficult questions – whether these are from clients,...
Bob Young is chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages
The political situation is moving so quickly that it seems slightly pointless to speculate on the policies and measures that have been...
Jane Simpson is managing director at TBMC
At TBMC, we have seen a significant rise in the number of limited company buy-to-let applications being submitted.
Since the beginning of 2019, over 25%...
Kevin Webb is managing director of Legal & General Surveying Services
It is more than two years since the tragedy at Grenfell, and still there is a huge amount of confusion...
Jeff Knight is director of marketing of Foundation Home Loans
In order to look forward, it’s also prudent to sometimes look back.
Understanding how the buy-to-let sector has been reshaped and...
Alan Cleary is managing director of Precise Mortgages
It doesn’t surprise me to read that, for the first time, more than half of lenders are now offering limited company buy-to-let...
Chris Maggs is senior commercial manager at Accord Buy To Let
After what feels like many months of negative press on the buy-to-let market, the most recent lending figures from UK...