Amy Loddington

The intermediary only specialist lender has reduced the number of credit tiers in its residential range to three and withdrawn its F4 tier for new business.

Average UK house prices rose by 2% in the year to June, slowing from annual growth of 3% in May, according to provisional figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Fleet Mortgages has reintroduced two five year fixed rate products for HMO and multi unit freehold block landlords at up to 75% LTV.

The Financial Conduct Authority has banned former SVS Securities CEO Demetrios Hadjigeorgiou from holding senior management positions in financial services and fined him £56,400.

Landlords could face increased exposure to tenancy fraud, with new research showing that fewer than a third of letting agents are fully confident their tenant onboarding processes provide adequate protection.

Aldermore has launched a range of limited edition buy to let mortgages, with rates starting from 5.84% for landlords with property portfolios.

Landlords continue to benefit from strong tenant demand, with an average of nine prospective tenants competing for every available rental property in June, according to Propertymark.

Landlords in parts of England could face increased competition for tenants after new research found the number of properties available to rent has risen by 7.4% over the past year.

Almost half of holiday let landlords and owners surveyed by The Cumberland have reported increased profitability following the abolition of Furnished

Landlords with five or more properties account for 49% of private tenancies in England, despite representing just 17% of landlords, according to the latest English Private Landlord Survey.