Tag: Lloyds

Revealed: UK housing hotspots of 2025

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th December 2025, 4 months ago | 1

Lloyds has revealed its 2025 housing hotspots, with most regions across the UK seeing rising house prices. Plymouth recorded the...

Lloyds predicts house prices will keep falling until 2025

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th October 2023, 2 years ago | 2

Lloyds has warned that the UK’s house prices will continue to fall until 2025 as the economy faces higher interest...

Lloyds Bank slams landlords as it creates new lettings agency

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th April 2023, 3 years ago | 51

Lloyds Bank says that because landlords offer ‘poor and exclusionary practices’, they are teaming up with the homeless charity Crisis...

Research into BTL mortgage arrears – University of York

Author: Alison Wallace

7th November 2013, 12 years ago | 16

I head up an independent and experienced team of researchers at the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of...

Who will lend on a property with no bathroom?

Author: Readers Question

30th September 2013, 13 years ago | 8

I’ve got my heart set on a property going to auction, which has no bathroom. I can get a mortgage...

12.5% return on cash invested on a newly refurbished Manchester based development

Author: Mark Alexander

31st July 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Last week I was presented with a Manchester based buy-to let investment opportunity which looks particularly attractive. The gross yield...

BM Solutions scraps minimum income rules on buy to let mortgages

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th June 2013, 13 years ago | 23

BM Solutions, the leading BTL lender from the Lloyds Banking Group, has removed its minimum income requirements for all buy-to-let...

Insolvency compensation rules for deposit and mortgages

Author: Readers Question

20th April 2013, 13 years ago | 3

What are the compensation rules when a customer has both deposits (over £85,000) and an outstanding mortgage with the same...

Caught out by Lloyds three mortgages rule

Author: Readers Question

26th February 2013, 13 years ago | 3

Just in case you are not aware of Lloyds three mortgages rule here’s how it caught me out. I bought...

BM Solutions BuytoLet rates reduced

Author: Neil Patterson

29th August 2012, 14 years ago | 6

BM Solutions BuytoLet rates have been reduced across their five and 3 year fixed rate range in line with other lenders...

All change on the buy to let mortgage front

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Co-Operative Bank buy to let mortgage customers can breathe a sigh of relief as the wholesale scrapping of interest only...

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Luxury home sales hit new high as rest of market falters

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Sales of homes worth £2 million or more are rising – and most are in just four upmarket neighbourhoods of...

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Where are the UK’s property hotspots – and not-spots?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

As property sales fall to their lowest level in three years and threaten to keep on dropping, here’s some research...

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The world’s best and worst housing markets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The secret’s finally out about the best performing international house markets for property investors over the past decade – and...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 96

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Today’s edition conveys a strong mortgage related theme. Ben Reeve-Lewis reports on Santander over-hauling their interest only mortgage policy, Mark...

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Lloyds tightens interest only rules for landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th February 2012, 14 years ago | 4

Lloyds is the latest bank to tighten up interest-only lending criteria following the lead of Santander. Both banks are significantly...

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Buy to Let Lenders Boast Booming Borrowing Figures

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2011, 14 years ago | 0

Buy to let lender Paragon Mortgages profits rose 12% to almost £81 million thanks to landlords building on their portfolios....

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10 Facts About £1 Million Property Sales

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th October 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Around 19 homes worth £1 million or more were sold every day for the first six months of the year,...

Finance firms named and shamed for poor customer service

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th September 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The worst banks and financial services firms picked up 1.1 million customer complaints in the first six months of the...

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New Tracker Lender for Buy to Let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th September 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A new buy to let mortgage lender is about to enter the market with broker-only deals. The State Bank of...