Fixed rates

The Ipswich relaunches shared ownership mortgages

The Ipswich Building Society has re-entered the shared ownership mortgage market with new fixed...

Accord cuts rates by up to 0.31 percentage points

Accord Mortgages has launched a new product range. The changes feature rate cuts of up...

The Buckinghamshire expands mortgage product offering

The Buckinghamshire Building Society is launching a series of new mortgage products in response...

Platform makes deals more competitive with rate cuts

Platform has made interest rate reductions to a number of its mortgage products, with...

Pepper Money unveils new 75% LTV residential deals

Pepper Money has unveiled new Limited Edition residential products available up to 75% LTV. The...

TML revamps self-employed criteria

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has introduced two and five-year residential fixed rates and overhauled...

Barclays cuts mortgages by up to 38bps

Barclays Mortgages is making rate reductions across its residential and buy-to-let product ranges –...

Newcastle Intermediaries expands large loan product proposition

Newcastle Intermediaries has expanded its large loan range and increased its maximum loan amount...

Coventry for intermediaries cuts selected residential rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected rates on its residential mortgage range at 50-75%...

Virgin Money cuts buy-to-let and residential rates

Virgin Money is making a number of reductions across its residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

Accord improves residential range with rate cuts

Accord Mortgages is making a number of changes to its residential mortgage offering, with...

Barclays cuts fixed and tracker mortgage rates

Barclays Mortgages has announced rate reductions across its residential product ranges for customers purchasing...

Newcastle Intermediaries introduces new Help to Buy remortgage product

Newcastle Intermediaries has expanded its Help to Buy range, introducing a new Help to...

Aldermore unveils new purchase and remortgage deals

Aldermore bank has revamped its residential owner occupied mortgage range, introducing new products for...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

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...

Latest news

Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average...

Quantum Mortgages promotes Mihramane and Ajaib

Quantum Mortgages has made two internal promotions across its sales and completions teams as...

Complex incomes hindering aspiring Scottish buyers

More than half of Scottish adults with complex incomes who do not own a...

MAB adds three senior hires across marketing, finance and technology

Mortgage Advice Bureau has strengthened its executive team with three senior appointments spanning marketing,...

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