Fixed rates

The Mortgage Soup view: Challenges and opportunities for brokers

One of the biggest focal points for brokers this year is the sheer volume...

Nationwide lowers remortgage and switcher rates in further push for market share

Nationwide has announced cuts of up to 0.29 percentage points across its remortgage and...

Virgin Money drops fixed rates across residential and BTL ranges

Virgin Money is to implement a range of rate reductions across its fixed mortgage...

MPowered Mortgages lowers fixed rates once again

MPowered Mortgages has announced its second round of fixed rate reductions since the so-called...

Gen H cuts 2-year rates by up to 30 bps

Gen H has made its third rate reduction in almost as many week with...

LendInvest cuts rates and revamps credit criteria

LendInvest has announced a series of changes to its residential mortgage offering, cutting fixed...

West One reduces residential mortgage rates by up to 30bps and introduces £1,000 cashback remortgage product

Specialist lender West One Loans has implemented a series of rate reductions across its...

Connect adds April Mortgages to lender panel

Connect for Intermediaries has secured an exclusive network partnership with April Mortgages, offering its...

Virgin Money cuts fixed rates across residential and BTL ranges

Virgin Money is making further adjustments to its mortgage pricing this week, with rate...

​HSBC slashes mortgage rates amid intensifying competition

HSBC has announced significant reductions across its mortgage offerings, effective from tomorrow (16 April)...

Santander reintroduces sub-4% mortgage rates

Santander UK will cut rates across its mortgage range from Thursday 17 April, with...

Gen H reduces high-LTV mortgage rates to support FTBs

Residential lender Gen H has announced a fresh round of mortgage rate reductions, targeting...

Choice of low deposit mortgages hits highest level since 2008

The number of mortgage deals available to borrowers with small deposits has climbed to...

Barclays cuts mortgage rates below 4%

Barclays is set to reduce mortgage rates by as much as 38 basis points...

COMMENT

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

Latest news

Landbay adds 11 tracker products and cuts rates by up to 15bps

Landbay has expanded its buy-to-let tracker range with 11 new products and reduced rates...

Howden expands in North Wales with Wrexham office

Howden has opened its first commercial insurance office in Wrexham as the broker expands...

UK buyers reluctant to compromise despite affordability pressures

UK homebuyers remain committed to purchasing a property but are less willing than buyers...

Keystone trims buy-to-let fixed rates by up to 15bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced pricing across a number of its buy-to-let mortgage ranges,...

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