With Labour’s election victory, a new EPC target has been announced. In mid-July, the new Secretary of State for Energy Security and...
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A mortgage lender wants Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use her October Budget to offer support to beleaguered landlords - especially over...
20 August 2024
From: Breaking News
The new lender April Mortgages - which already offers a range of five to 15-year fixed rates on 95% mortgages, has...
24 July 2024
From: Breaking News
A new index shows that only one in eight potential first-time buyers can purchase the average FTB home in their area. The...
23 July 2024
From: Breaking News
Speculation is growing ahead of the General Election around how first-time buyers will fair, and if they’ll receive the support they...
22 June 2024
From: Agent Advice
Rental sector and property industry views are split over the controversial idea of allowing first time buyers to put down a...
26 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Escalating rents have led many first time buyers to adjust their property expectations and accept smaller homes when they purchase, a...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers. So far this year...
08 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A mortgage expert is warning renters tempted by news that the Skipton Building Society has launched a 100 per cent mortgage...
23 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Skipton International, the Guernsey-licensed bank, has today announced the rollout of its Limited Company Buy To Let product following a soft...
23 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Increasing numbers of lenders are now offering incentives to win the business of landlords with good, or improving, EPC ratings. In what...
28 November 2022
From: Breaking News
There’s been a “huge demand” for buy to let mortgages spurred on by dramatic house prices rises, according to a major...
10 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The Guernsey-based lender Skipton International says there’s been a surge in interest in UK buy to let mortgages from overseas over...
28 May 2021
From: Breaking News
Skipton Building Society has refreshed its buy-to-let and residential product range with reduced rates on selected products. The society’s buy-to-let two-year fixed...
26 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Skipton International has returned to remortgage lending for overseas buyers looking to invest in the UK buy-to-let market. Skipton International had recently...
19 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Skipton Building Society is expected to relaunch its buy-to-let lending to up 75% loan-to-value (LTV) following a temporary withdrawal from new purchase...
01 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Skipton International has launched a new remortgage offer that it hopes will appeal to UK expats. Skipton is offering to refund an...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News
Skipton International has announced plans to expand its buy-to-let mortgage lending and increase offshore savings deposits. Skipton, which offers buy-to-let mortgages to...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News
Skipton International has amended its mortgage criteria to enable borrowers to potentially borrow more against their buy-to-let property investments. Skipton, which provides...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News
Skipton Building Society has refreshed its buy-to-let range and cut rates. Two-year fixed rates will now start from 1.58% at 60% loan-to-value...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Five new buy-to-let intermediary-only mortgage products have been introduced by Skipton Building Society. Among the new products for purchase or remortgage, which...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Skipton International has extended its UK buy-to-let mortgages to foreign nationals based abroad. Skipton previously only offered its UK buy-to-let mortgages to...
21 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Skipton International has extended the terms of its mortgage proposition to include studio apartments valued at £250,000 and above in response...
17 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Skipton Building Society has cut rates by up to 0.23% across its buy-to-let range on both new acquisition and remortgage deals. The...
22 June 2018
From: Breaking News
By anyone's standards, it’s a tough time to be a landlord. With Brexit just around the corner, a sluggish housing market,...
23 May 2018
From: Breaking News
Thistle Finance has teamed up with global currency specialist, Mercury FX, to offer UK expats new buy-to-let rates through specialist loans...
04 May 2018
From: Breaking News
Skipton International is hoping to build on strong demand for its buy-to-let mortgages to British expats seeking to invest in England...
21 March 2018
From: Breaking News
Skipton Building Society has cut rates on selected buy-to-let mortgages, as competition between mortgage lenders remains strong. The new buy-to-let range includes...
25 January 2018
From: Breaking News
It was announced this morning that Skipton Building Society has launched a range of retention buy-to-let and residential mortgage products in...
16 January 2018
From: Breaking News
A new range of intermediary only fixed rate buy-to-let products has been launched by Skipton Intermediaries. The new fee free five-year buy-to-let...
15 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Skipton Building Society this morning relaunched a number of its fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages cutting rates by up to 0.25%. The society...
12 December 2017
From: Breaking News
The fall in the pound over the past year or so has made the UK a cheaper location for overseas-based property...
07 September 2017
From: Breaking News
TMA Mortgage Club has launched an exclusive two-year buy-to-let fixed rate mortgage at 2.49% with Skipton Building Society. The product, which is...
07 September 2017
From: Breaking News
Skipton Building Society has announced that it has tightened its portfolio affordability requirements to 150% at 5.5%, and at 5% for...
16 August 2017
From: Breaking News
More than £500m worth of expat mortgage enquiries for UK buy-to-let property have been received by Skipton International in the first...
09 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Skipton Building Society reduced its borrowing rates across its buy-to-let mortgage range by up to 0.28% this morning. Skipton’s new buy-to-let range for...
07 July 2017
From: Breaking News
Additional borrowing rates on a new range of two, three and five year fixed rate mortgage products launched by Skipton Building...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News
A group of landlords has suspended its plans to take the Bank of Ireland to court over their tracker rate being...
17 November 2016
From: Breaking News
A growing number of British expats are looking to take advantage of the fall in sterling by investing funds abroad back...
17 November 2016
From: Breaking News
There has been a significant increase in the number of buy-to-let mortgage products available, with recent research by Mortgage Brain revealing that...
03 October 2016
From: Breaking News
It is now been three years since Property 118 questioned West Brom’s – the now obsolete specialist lending arm - decision...
14 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Skipton Building Society has launched a range of new fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage products with interest rates lowered on certain products...
22 August 2016
From: Breaking News
A group of disgruntled customers are expected to start legal action against Skipton Building Society and Bank of Ireland next month...