The booming buy-to-let market has seen strong reliance on mortgage advisers. Corinne McPartland finds out how landlords are grabbing the best deals in the buisness.

RESEARCH undertaken by Business Development Research Consultants (BDRC) shows more landlords are turning to mortgage advisers for advice.

Mehrdad Yousefi head of intermediary mortgages at Alliance and Leicester says advice plays an important part for investors.

She said: "Landlords need their advisers to obtain information which they can't easily get hold of themselves, as well as helping them get the best mortgage product for their needs.

"As landlords gain more experience, they may develop confidence and feel better equipped to make their own decisions and then may choose to go direct to a lender."

And she says advisers provide a sounding board in the decision making process landlords have to go through.

Research also shows landlords arrange to see their mortgage broker on a regular basis with one in ten seeing their adviser weekly.

And more than 40 per cent seeing their adviser once a month.

Financial services manager Clare Jeeves from Andrew Reeves Estate Agents in High Street, Bromley, says she has noticed an increase.

She said: "It is very different finding a mortgage for buy-to- let compared to residential.

"There are so many factors involved and every lender is so we try to work out how landlords can get mortgage repayments of less than they would get for the rent."