Buy-to-Let

Richard Rowntree is managing director of mortgages at Paragon Last month A-level results made the headlines, after 44.8% of students were awarded A or A grades, the second record high in...

Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC It has been expected that intermediaries working in the buy-to-let (BTL) sector may see a slowdown in the purchase of residential rental property as...

Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC It was interesting to read about the recent report by the estate agents Hamptons, which indicated that in the UK it is currently cheaper...

Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC There has been plenty of positive movement in the buy-to-let (BTL) sector in recent months, which has been supported by numerous reports and surveys...

Ross Turrell is commercial director of CHL Mortgages If I had £1 for every time I heard or read something which hinted at the demise of the buy-to-let (BTL) market over...

Jane Simpson is managing director of TBMC In recent years, the environmental issues affecting our planet have taken central stage in the media, and many people have become increasingly concerned with...

Richard Rowntree is managing director of mortgages at Paragon Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in improving the standard of the UK’s housing stock. Of course, efforts...

George Gee is commercial director of Foundation Home Loans As I write this, we are approaching the end of a quarter which was largely expected to be the busiest on record...

Bob Young is chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages Spend any time within the buy-to-let (BTL) market or private rental sector (PRS) and you’ll soon learn there is always an underlying...

Alisa Wallington is senior product manager at iPipeline Internet shopping – if you had not fully embraced it before the pandemic, you and millions of others almost certainly will have done...

Adrian Moloney is group sales director at Precise Mortgages Many of us have had more time on our hands due to the lockdown measures, and it seems that we’ve been taking...

Richard Rowntree is managing director of mortgages at Paragon Passed in 2008 by an overwhelming majority across all political parties, The Climate Change Act sets out the UK’s commitment to reducing...

Adrian Moloney is sales director of OneSavings Bank Group    You’d have to have been living under a rock for the past few years not to be aware of the huge...

Richard Rowntree is managing director of mortgages, Paragon Before Brexit was ousted by COVID-19 as the main news item, it dominated our headlines for a number of years. Finally, we now...

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...