Posts Tagged ‘new business’
Lenders compete for BTL mortgage business
Buy-to-let mortgage rates are being slashed to record lows in an effort to keep the market alive following the continued efforts by the Chancellor George Osborne to keep the buy-to-let boom under control. In fact these efforts by the Chancellor appears to have triggered what might be called a ‘price war’ as lenders compete to…
Read MoreFewer conveyancing firms in 2015
According to Search Acumen the total number of active conveyancing firms dropped by 9% in 2015, that equates to more than 500 firms. Conveyancing firms recorded an average of 192 transactions in 2015, compared to 175 transactions in 2014, the increase came despite the overall conveyancing market remaining flat with 1,030,023 transactions in total during…
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