Korea’s record-low stock valuations seen as opportunity amid AI earnings boom

Aldermore has reduced the rates across its special-edition buy-to-let (BTL) range for product switches. For existing customers, the two-year fix at 70% loan to value (LTV) with no fee has been cut by 0.35% to 6.44%. This is open to individual and company landlords with a single residential investment property.  The lender said this…

Office-to-residential conversions haven’t fallen out of favor with the mayor. Buckling columns at the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown weren’t enough to deter the mayor’s pursuit of office-to-residential conversions as part of his broader housing plan for 200,000 units over the next decade. The risky situation at 235 East 42nd Street on Tuesday was partially…

CME Group announced on Thursday its plans to launch Treasury Link, a new service designed to connect U.S. Treasury futures and cash markets through a single spread trading mechanism. The derivatives marketplace described the service as an industry first, adding that it is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2026 subject to regulatory…

Strata owners could see their body corporate fees slashed as a new AI-led platform streamlines and standardises the insurance process, resulting in more accurate valuations and lower premiums. Strata intelligence company Cohabit has expanded its strata connectivity platform, Cohabit Connect, to strengthen risk intelligence and defect-severity assessment across its insurance team. Cohabit said the tools…

Most landlords understand that the abolition of Section 21 has fundamentally changed the possession process. What many don’t yet appreciate is that another challenge may become increasingly common as more landlords rely on Section 8 grounds for possession: disability discrimination. According to barrister Sonia Rai, speaking with Paul Shamplina of Landlord Action, in the article…

Market Notice At its September 2025 meeting, the MPC voted to reduce the stock of gilts held in the APF by £70 billion over the period from October 2025 to September 2026, to a total of £488 billion. The Bank set out in the consolidated APF gilt sales Market Notice published on 1 September 2022 that it…