Landlord confidence has bounced back as investors look to use limited companies or increase rents in reaction to higher tax costs, according to Kent Reliance’s Buy to Let Britain reports. Some 54 per cent of investors are confident over the prospects for their portfolios, according to a survey of 900 property investors. This is a recovery from the second quarter of the year, when confidence hit a record low (39 per

Market Harborough Building Society is offering borrowers the chance to buy a home with no deposit at all – if their parents agree to put their own home up as security. The new ‘family assistance mortgage’ allows first-time buyers or those purchasing a new home to borrow 100 per cent of the value of the property on the condition that the borrower’s parents allow a second mortgage to be taken out