NatWest Group has announced a partnership with Landbay, a leading fintech platform for buy-to-let mortgages. The agreement will see NatWest Group enter the growing Limited Company buy-to-let mortgage market leveraging Landbay’s award winning lending platform, and extensive broker distribution network. Nigel Davey, head of Buy-to-Let, Home Buying and Ownership at NatWest Group comments, ‘Today’s announcement […]
West One has today announced a string of criteria enhancements on their buy-to-let product range, aimed at boosting the range of options available to landlords. Among the changes are more flexible criteria around minor adverse credit. On W1 products, one default or CCJ in the past 72 months under £250 is now allowed. For W2 […]
Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let specialist lender, has today (Tuesday 29 July 2025) announced rate reductions of up to 25 basis points (bps) on a number of its two-year fixed rate products across its Standard and Limited Company product ranges. Changes include a 15 bps reduction to the lender’s two-year 3% fee non-EPC A-C products, now […]
The latest research from specialist lender, Octane Capital, has revealed that UK property developers are increasingly relying on bridging finance to overcome mounting financial pressures, as one in three have been forced to postpone or scale back projects due to funding challenges. The survey of UK property developers, commissioned by Octane Capital, found that 36% say […]
Landlord research carried out by mortgage market specialist Pegasus Insight shows a major wave of refinancing among buy-to-let landlords, driven by the end of fixed-term deals and shifting portfolio strategies. Of those refinancing, over two-thirds stayed with their existing lender; one in three remortgaged and one in three took a product transfer. One in four […]
Foundation Home Loans, the intermediary-only specialist lender, has unveiled a significant enhancement to its core buy-to-let range with the launch of a new product in the rarely occupied 85% LTV space. Available to both individuals and limited companies, the specialist lender’s F1 buy-to-let product offers a five-year fixed rate of 6.49%, a minimum loan size […]
In its newly released Global Tech Markets 2025 report, Colliers ranks London as only behind the San Francisco Bay area as a top talent location of technology and AI firms. The city outperformed global heavyweights like New York and Seattle, driven by its deep talent pool and world-class academic institutions. The study, which analyses more than […]
UK mainstream house prices expected to rise by 1.0% this year and by 24.5% over the next five years (an average +£86,300) Savills has launched a revised five-year mainstream house price forecast in light of a more cautious start of the year. While the overall five-year outlook remains intact – the distribution of growth has […]
BTL lender Landbay has launched a new Summer Special range of standard products, with rate reductions of as much as 0.44% compared to existing product lines. The new Summer Special range adds five new products to the Landbay line-up, including three new five-year fixed rate products – available at up to 75% loan-to-value (LTV), and […]
Following several market highs, May saw the first monthly price reversal this year, as reported by Scotland’s latest HPI data from Walker Fraser Steele, powered by Acadata. Average house prices are down by nearly £1,700 on April, standing at £230,700. This is 1.8% higher than a year ago, down from 2.9% in April (Figure 1). […]
