Barclays BTL mortgage calculation update – income can be used to cover rental shortfall.

Barclays has announced plans to allow landlords to use personal income to overcome issues where the lender’s rental cover calculation is not met. 

Affordability assessments will be introduced on all buy to let mortgage applications. New applicants will be stressed tested against Barclays’ current rental cover calculation of 125% at a current stress rate of 5.79%.

Where the lender’s rental cover calculation is not met, applications will still be accepted if the applicant has a sufficient surplus of disposable income.

A spokesperson for the lender advised that the criteria change is to allow a personal affordability check to be carried out for all applications.

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