Buy-to-let market update: February 2026
Welcome to ‘Buy-to-Let Market’, a column aimed at providing you with recent criteria and product updates within the buy-to-let lending markets. The information within this article is correct as at 29/01/2026.
It is now just over a week since John Healey announced savage tax hikes for landlords. Here our chief executive Ben Beadle explains what this will mean for the sector and what we are doing to challenge it.
Welcome to ‘Buy-to-Let Market’, a column aimed at providing you with recent criteria and product updates within the buy-to-let lending markets. The information within this article is correct as at 29/01/2026.
Perhaps the single most challenging element of the Renters’ Rights Act for the majority of landlords is the abolition of rent in advance. Rent in advance provided certainty of income for an agreed duration of time, even if the ability to pay became a problem later. So, what’s available to landlords looking for a viable alternative, what questions should you be asking, and what makes a professional rent guarantor a robust option?
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