Landbay and the Nottingham Building Society have both trimmed pricing across their buy-to-let mortgage ranges this week, a modest but telling move that suggests specialist lenders are once again jostling for position as swap rates soften and competition for landlord business intensifies. While neither lender has published headline-grabbing sub-4% deals, cuts of between 0.10 and 0.30 percentage points across fixed-rate products signal that the buy-to-let funding environment is loosening after two years of punishing rate rises that pushed many landlords out of the market entirely.