Keystone relaunches 7% fee products to help landlords pass affordability requirements
Buy-to-let lender Keystone Property Finance has unveiled a buy-to-let mortgage range with a 7% arrangement fee to help investors pass affordability requirements. There are 5-year Standard products at both 65%…
Short-term vs. long-term rentals in Dubai
Colife is the international rental, purchase and property management company With the Dubai property market set to grow steadily in 2024–2025, investors are actively looking for the most profitable rental…
Advisers overwhelmingly confident in the market
Mortgage intermediaries are very confident in the state of their own business, signaling that most are confident in the thriving nature of the mortgage market. Some 98% felt ‘very confident’…
Angela Rayner: Smaller builders the bedrock for change
Housing secretary Angela Rayner wants smaller housebuilders to pick up more of the slack when it comes to building homes. Speaking at a visit to an Oxfordshire site in Didcot,…
Goodlord alters insurance policies to reflect Renters’ Rights Bill
Letting platform Goodlord has updated its Rent Protection and Legal Expense Insurance product, which it said it designed to help agents and landlords prepare for the Renters’ Rights Bill. From…
Government injects more money into building apprenticeships
The government will train up 120,000 workers with the help of 30,000 apprenticeships over the course of the parliament. With the help of a £3 billion apprenticeship budget the government…
Fewer HMOs being approved thanks to tighter regulations
HMO approvals dropped past year, suggesting that tighter licensing rules are hampering the sector. The number of approvals dropped by -5.9% in 2024, which saw 25,445 new licences issued, a…
Busiest May for home sales since 2021
The number of agreed property sales in May reached its highest rate in four years, Zoopla’s house price index has revealed. There’s been a 13% year-on-year increase in homes for…
Home availability stronger in the South
There are more homes available for purchase in the south of England, Zoopla data shows. There are 21% more homes for sale in the South West compared to this time…
EPC ratings should take property type and age into account, says trade body
Estate agency trade body Propertymark has called for EPC ratings to be conducted on a ‘property-by-property’ basis. That means taking varying property types into consideration, and acknowledging that homes in…