Fixed rates

Five-year fix most popular remo rate in April

48% of consumers took out a five-year fixed rate product – the most popular...

Barclays to cut Scotland Help to Buy rates

Barclays Mortgages is making changes to its Scotland Help to Buy products on 31 May. As...

New five-year deals from Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has unveiled four new 75% LTV five-year fixes in its standard range...

Keystone cuts three and five-year rates

Keystone Property Finance has cut its three and five-year fixed rates in the standard...

TSB cuts purchase and remortgage rates

TSB Bank has reduced interest rates by up to 0.10 percentage points on mortgages...

Barclays cuts rates on seven deals

Barclays is making changes across its residential, and buy-to-let and Reward ranges. The changes, which...

The Yorkshire cuts longer-term fixed rates

The Yorkshire Building Society has reduced rates on its longer-term mortgages. The mutual now has...

Sainsbury’s Bank announces widespread rate changes

Sainsbury’s Bank has made a number fo changes to its residential & buy-to-let product...

Barclays to make residential and Reward range revisions

Barclays is making changes to its residential and Reward ranges tomorrow, 3 May. Changes include reductions...

Five-year fix ‘finds a sweet spot’ in the market

Paragon’s latest Financial Adviser Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index has revealed that 49% of all...

NatWest to make widespread rate reductions

NatWest is making rate reductions on selected core and semi-exclusive residential and buy-to-let products...

Barclays adds new deal and cuts BTL rates

Barclays is making a series of changes across its buy-to-let Core and Reward ranges,...

L&G Mortgage Club gets Skipton exclusive

Legal & General Mortgage Club has unveiled an exclusive residential offering for its members...

Platform cuts selected five-year fixed rates

Platform has reduced interest rates on its five-year fixed rate mortgages at 60% LTV...

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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