Welcome to Foundation Home Loans. We are a specialist buy to let and residential mortgage lender, providing flexible solutions for your more complex cases.
Updated 15.01.2021
Average time to answer broker desk calls 5 minutes
Decision in principle referral time 1 day
The maximum time to review full mortgage application will be 4 days
The maximum time for underwriter review once all requirements are met will be 4 days
Stamp duty deadline
Great news, we are still open for new business. We are also mindful of the need to maintain high standards of service, and would like to reassure you that we are focused on progressing swiftly both new and existing business. We have increased resources in our new business team, including internal and regional BDMs, who in addition to their ‘normal’ role are working closely with brokers to obtain the final requirements on all applications. This has enabled our underwriters to concentrate on reviewing applications with all requirements met, which along with our process improvements has resulted in a significantly increased first-time offer rate.
We are doing all this and whilst we cannot guarantee property transactions will complete before the 31st March, we are keen to work closely supporting you and your clients ahead of the deadline. Please visit our new stamp duty FAQs page to find out more.
Lending criteria
A case to place?
The response to the ‘reopening’ of the housing market, especially from a specialist lending perspective, has been incredible.
With so many specialist property types or properties with specialist uses, Gemma Lang, our Regional Account Manager for the East of England, tells us what specialist property mortgages we can help you with.
Today we’ve introduced a number of new products, price and criteria changes across both our buy to let and residential ranges.
Following your feedback, we have made improvements to our broker portal to enable us to get to underwriting your residential cases sooner.
The housing and mortgage markets have been buoyant during the 3rd Quarter and into Q4, fuelled largely by the SDLT temporary reduced rates for house purchases completing before 31st March 2021.
It’s testament to the UK’s continued appetite for homeownership, government intervention and sustained commitment from lenders that we're in this quite remarkable position at the end of 2020.
The impact of the second national lockdown was far less severe than the initial lockdown period on the property and mortgage markets.
We now accept ‘no search indemnity insurance’ for purchase and remortgage transactions, with the exception of purchases and/or remortgages of HMO and MUB properties.
Recent mortgage data from CACI suggests there is likely to be significant number of product maturities in December - valued at £33.18bn - while 2021 could see the total maturity figure hitting £250bn.
We are making some exciting re-mortgage additions to both our buy to let and residential product ranges today.
Our latest research via BVA BDRC landlord survey for Q3 shows that HMO properties outrank all other property types by quite some way.
We understand that getting your clients cases through can often be a time-consuming process.
The landscape has been rocky for property investors for the last three years.
We're here to support those extra-ordinary clients with unsual income sources or those recently self-employed who may now no longer be fitting the criteria of mainstream lenders.
First and foremost, we're still accepting new business as normal and continuing to make the underwriting process as efficient as possible for you and your clients.
We have listened to your feedback and simplified the supporting documentation required for residential mortgage applications.
As our lives continue to adapt, we lenders are constantly listening and evolving how best to interact with our adviser partners and their clients/our customers.
We've listened to your feedback and made our limited company cases even more straightforward.
Great news! We’ve made an exciting addition to our buy to let range today that you need to hear about.
We've put together our top tips to speed up your clients’ residential application.
Our buy to let range is undergoing some exciting enhancements today.
As the property and mortgage markets change, so do the needs of your clients and the types of expertise you must offer.
Our residential range is undergoing some exciting changes today.
We are used to dealing with complex limited company structures, particularly companies using Directors’ loans as deposit.
As experts, we can find you a solution for a broader range of landlord situations.
We’re enhancing our buy to let range today with rate reductions on some of our 5 year fixed rates.
We’ve released some exciting new residential products today.
We’ve launched some exciting new buy to let products today.
We’ve made some exciting enhancements to our buy to let range today.
BDM Gemma Lang shares six questions to help you key in your clients’ application smoothly.
The residential lending landscape has changed immeasurably, particularly in the specialist sector.
We've put together our top tips to speed up your clients’ BTL application.
We have been making changes to our buy to let range recently.
We’ve made some exciting changes to our buy to let range today.
We've made a number of new changes to our residential criteria today.
Rightmove reported a 1.9% increase in asking prices in June compared to March.
My job is usually visiting brokers at their homes, offices, or if I’m lucky a beer garden.
We’ve updated our residential range, including new 5 year products and an increase to our max LTV.
We’ve made a series of changes to our buy to let range today, including reduced rates and more.
We asked Hiten Ganatra, Managing Director, Visionary Finance, about his life in lockdown.
We've been longlisted in the mortgages category at the Financial Adviser Service Awards 2020.
As physical valuations return, here is an important message from one of our valuer partners.
Our CEO and our Head of National Accounts discuss the cost of borrowing amidst this pandemic.
Generating ideas is an important step we can take to help us overcome current and future challenges.
We asked Stephanie Charman from Sesame Bankhall Group about her life in lockdown.
Our key valuer partners have announced that they are resuming physical valuations in England.
We announced late last week that we would return to new lending today. And now I want to share with you a brief overview of what that looks like.
We are delighted to tell you that from Monday 18 May, we will be accepting new business.
We asked Kevin Roberts, Director, Legal & General Mortgage Club, about his life in lockdown.
SEO is the process of increasing the quantity and quality of views your website gets from search engines.
Jeff Knight, our Director of Marketing, on why we have launched Broker Hub and what it includes.
A CRM holds information about the clients you have done / would like to do business with.
We asked Matthew Rowne, Director, The Buy to Let Broker, about his life in lockdown.
We asked Kris Corns, Operations Director, Crystal Specialist Finance, about his life in lockdown.
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Email marketing can help to keep you in the minds of your customers, both past and present, when they or their friends are looking to purchase a new property.
During our recent webinar - working through the new abnormal - we asked what questions you'd like answered.
We can’t dress things up, this is a crisis. One that has been extremely sharp.
2020 vision is often referred to as having hindsight. Lots of people are probably thinking, ‘If only’?
We teamed up with Mortgage Introducer to bring you a webinar on working through the new abnormal.
Each lender has their own individual approach to generate and service new and existing business.
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