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20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A mortgage lender survey suggests landlords are returning to fixed rate mortgages. Landbay says more investors are opting for five-year fixed mortgages...
04 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Many landlords have dropped plans to improve the energy efficiency of their homes following the U-turn by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. In...
27 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Almost four fifths of landlords favour raising the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for private rental properties, a think tank claims. The Social...
27 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Specialist lender Landbay has issued another upbeat assessment of the buy to jet sector, bucking the trend of most market reports. It...
27 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Over half of landlords are either against the concept of a private rental sector Ombudsman or are actively against it. As part...
06 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A survey suggests that landlords want to improve the energy efficiency of their properties as soon as possible - despite a...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Some 18 per cent of buy to let landlords have suggested they are not raising rents for tenants despite inflation and...
31 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Against the trend of many recent surveys, a study by lending service Landbay claims over 40 per cent of landlords want...
05 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Unsurprisingly an overwhelming 81 per cent of landlords in a survey feel they are badly portrayed by the media Landlords say they...
09 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Buy to let specialist lender Landbay has brought back its green five-year fixed rate range as well as launching two new...
04 April 2023
From: Breaking News
The mass exodus of landlords unhappy with increased tax and regulation appears not to have happened - at least yet. A quarterly...
16 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords are many people’s favourite pantomime villains, on the hunt to hike rents and squeeze profits. The reality, however, is proven...
09 April 2022
From: The Big Issues
New research by the Mortgages for Business brokerage suggests that just under a quarter of landlords’ properties have an Energy Performance...
28 March 2022
From: Breaking News
New research suggests that some landlords are now deliberately choosing to buy properties with weak EPCs in order to upgrade and...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Specialist lender Landbay has launched two new buy to let mortgage products for first time landlords who want to invest in...
13 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Specialist buy to let lender Landbay is the latest to try to turn landlords green by offering discounted mortgages for rental...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Specialist buy to let lender Landbay has launched a range of mortgages for trading limited companies buying or remortgaging houses, apartments, HMOs...
25 March 2021
From: Breaking News
There has been a sharp rise in mortgage approvals, as reported by the Bank of England yesterday. The latest data reveals that...
02 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Landbay has introduced a new range of ‘special edition’ buy-to-let mortgage products after agreeing a new funding partnership with Canada Square. The...
27 July 2020
From: Breaking News
Landbay has responded to the growing demand for buy-to-let property by increasing its maximum loan sizes from £1m to £1.5m on...
21 July 2020
From: Breaking News
There has been a significant increase in demand for buy-to-let properties in recent weeks, according to Landbay. It would appear, based on...
30 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Landbay has joined the Lender Exchange in order to have access to better conveyancing solicitors. Lender Exchange, owned by Decision First, is...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
There was an increase in buy-to-let activity in the first three months of 2020, the latest mortgage lending data shows. According to...
05 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let lender Landbay has announced a product refresh across a series of its products, including the addition of fees to 80%...
03 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Landbay has launched a new buy-to-let mortgage product for a limited time. The product, which includes a free valuation for standard properties valued...
05 February 2020
From: Breaking News
Landbay, the buy-to-let mortgage lender, has joined forces with The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) to provide landlords using certain...
21 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Landbay has achieved a rather impressive 200% growth in lending volumes over the past 12 months. The buy-to-let lender reports that recent...
27 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Landbay has become an institutional only platform after closing its retail investment arm and exiting the peer-to-peer lending market. The buy-to-let mortgage...
09 December 2019
From: Breaking News
Fresh research shows that just a quarter of private tenants in the UK are interested in purchasing property in the near...
23 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Most private tenants are not currently interested in buying a property, fresh research shows. Just 42% of tenants are interested in purchasing...
24 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Whether you are about to acquire a new property or preparing to re-let an existing home, it is helpful to know...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Landbay has announced a new partnership with the Next Intelligence mortgage club, Mortgage Intelligence, Mortgage Next and FYB Network brands that...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Landbay has revamped its range of buy-to-let mortgage deals for professional landlords and reduced rates on selected products, with its most...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News
Landbay has revamped its range of buy-to-let mortgage products for professional landlords and reduced rates in a bid to win more...
03 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Specialist buy-to-let lender Landbay has conducted an independent Bank of England stress test to project the impact of a major economic...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News
Landbay has announced that it will be increasing its maximum loan term from 25 to 30 years from 1 May. All products...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News
The average rent for a property in the UK increased by 0.96% in the year to March but London remains a...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News
The latest UK Finance household lending and deposits data reveals that gross mortgage lending across the residential market dropped in January,...
27 February 2019
From: Breaking News
MPs will finally hold their vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal tomorrow, with just over two months to go before the...
14 January 2019
From: Breaking News
As 2018 draws to a close, the vast majority of areas have seen rents increase over the past 12 months, according...
27 December 2018
From: Breaking News
Rents in the UK’s private rented sector increased by 0.97% in the 12 months to November 2018, virtually unchanged from the...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News
Crossrail will demand hundreds of millions of pounds from the government in its third bailout of the year according to various...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News
Tenants typically spend a third of their monthly salary before tax on rent, new figures show, but there are wide regional...
09 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Landbay has partnered with Julian Harris Adviser Network to provide more mortgage brokers and their landlord clients with access to its...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News
Landbay has enhanced and expanded its product criteria for buy-to-let landlords. The lender has increased its maximum loan size from £1m to...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News
Rents have had their biggest monthly increase for 28 months, led by gains in the East Midlands, according to the latest...
07 September 2018
From: Breaking News
UK house price growth has slowed to the lowest level since August 2013, according to the latest data from the Office...
16 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let has recently taken a bit of a bashing with some landlords forced to exit the market as profits drop amid...
06 August 2018
From: Breaking News
London house prices are continuing to fall, with the collapse in the buy-to-let sector increasing the number of homes on the...
19 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Rents in London grew by 0.1% in the 12 months to June 2018, the first annual rental rise in the city...
06 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Banks will almost certainly be forced to raise mortgage rates as cheap money provided by a closed Bank of England scheme...
27 June 2018
From: Breaking News
Rental prices in England are increasing at the slowest pace for five years, the latest Landbay Rental Index shows. Rents in England,...
08 June 2018
From: Breaking News
Legal and General Mortgage Club has added Landbay to its lender panel, offering members immediate access to a wide range of...
16 May 2018
From: Breaking News
There has been a sharp rise in demand for buy-to-let mortgages after a number of two-year fixed deals came to end. A...
27 April 2018
From: Breaking News
Demand for property in the private rental market is showing no signs of slowing down, and this is placing upward pressure...
10 April 2018
From: Breaking News
Most areas of England and Wales have seen rental price growth over the past 12 months, but where are rents increasing...
09 March 2018
From: Breaking News
Landbay has launched a new range of buy-to-let products, with a specific focus on enhancing its HMO offering, making it easier...
27 February 2018
From: Breaking News
The average cost of renting a home is now increasing across every UK region for the first time in 19 months,...
08 February 2018
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let lender Landbay has been added to the SimplyBiz Mortgages panel. The lender offers a host of products aimed at buy-to-let landlords, including...
23 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender Landbay has announced that it is changing its underlying portfolio stress tests for portfolio landlords. It will now...
17 January 2018
From: Breaking News
UK rents grew by 0.56% in 2017, led by gains in London commuter hotspots, according to the latest rental price index...
08 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Millennials renting in this country will have spent more than £110,000 in rent by the time they are finally in a...
15 December 2017
From: Breaking News
There was a symbolic decline in UK rents last month, new figures show. The average UK rent dropped by 0.01% in November, and...
14 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Private rental prices paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by 1.5% in the 12 months to October, but this was...
15 November 2017
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England’s decision to increase interest rates yesterday could lead to rents rising across the country as some landlords...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News
Following the news that Transport for London has privately warned that Crossrail 2 could be delayed by a decade, to the...
06 October 2017
From: Breaking News
Landbay has reported a record month of buy-to-let lending in September, despite the latest crack down on the sector. Stricter portfolio buy-to-let...
05 October 2017
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let landlords looking to invest in London’s rental market may wish to consider investing in the capital’s outer boroughs where the...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News
The steady levels of mortgage activity seen through the first half of the year continued into July, with gross mortgage lending...
25 August 2017
From: Breaking News
UK rental prices paid by private tenants rose by 1.8% in the 12 months to June 2017, fresh figures from the...
19 July 2017
From: Breaking News
Rental prices look set to increase in the coming months on the back of a growing supply-demand imbalance, as more people...
14 July 2017
From: Breaking News
Landbay, the specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender, has joined forces with financial services giant Legal & General to launch Landbay Insurance, a...
11 July 2017
From: Breaking News
The average rental value of a new letting in the UK increased by just 0.24% in the first six months of...
10 July 2017
From: Breaking News
Landbay announced yesterday that it is to launch an accounting, reporting and tax compliance service to help landlords with their tax...
27 June 2017
From: Breaking News
Rents have flat-lined across most of the UK, as a growing number of landlords refrain from asking for rental increases, new...
08 June 2017
From: Breaking News
Despite the fact that UK house prices are continuing to slow, with yesterday’s figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
17 May 2017
From: Breaking News
Young private renters are facing staggering new hurdles to simply live alone and make a decent wage, new research shows. Those attempting...
08 May 2017
From: Breaking News
The UK property market continued to rally last month, with gross mortgage lending surging by 19% compared with February, but it...
21 April 2017
From: Breaking News
The pace of UK rental growth has more than halved since the end of March 2016, slowing consistently since the introduction...
07 April 2017
From: Breaking News
LandBay has cut rates and fees across its product range for amateur and professional buy-to-let landlords. Rates now start at 3.39% for...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
Rent increases across the UK have slowed to their lowest level since 2013, fresh data has revealed, with prices in London...
14 March 2017
From: Breaking News
The chancellor’s pledge to create a £690m competition fund for English councils to tackle urban congestion and develop local transport networks,...
09 March 2017
From: Breaking News
Rents in the residential property sector are continuing to rise across many parts of the UK with no fewer than 20...
13 February 2017
From: Breaking News
Renters are expected to be given a boost with ministers promising new minimum tenancies and vowing to build more homes to...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News
The Southern Rail strikes which have caused disruption for commuters have started to have an impact on rental price growth in...
23 January 2017
From: Breaking News
The average cost of renting a home has increased outside of London as rent paid rose 2% and pay fell over...
10 January 2017
From: Breaking News
Landbay has launched a range of new buy-to-let products aimed at professional landlords, including expats and those with HMOs. The products, available...
05 January 2017
From: Breaking News
04 November 2016
From: Breaking News
Landbay has launched a range of limited edition lending products aimed primarily at professional landlords with no early redemption charges (ERCs). The...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News
Average rents for one-bed rental properties continued to grow during September, despite overall rental growth slowing last month. Landbay's latest Rental Index...
10 October 2016
From: Breaking News
A new tool that allows landlords to compare rents online has been launched by Landbay. The peer to peer lender’s ‘Rent Check’...
05 October 2016
From: Breaking News
Tenants are now spending two-thirds of their disposable income on rent as sky-high prices put even more homes out of reach. The...
13 September 2016
From: Breaking News
With savers receiving dismal returns from banks and building societies, thousands of people have unsurprising turned to residential property as a...