Mortgages

New lifetime tracker from HSBC

HSBC has launched a new tracker mortgage rate. The new fee-free lifetime tracker rate is available...

Virgin Money revises product offering

Virgin Money has made a number of changes across its residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

The Leeds cuts fixed rates

The Leeds Building Society now has a two-year fixed rate mortgage at 2.09% between...

55% increase in mutual lending, year-on-year

Gross mortgage lending by building societies and other mutual lenders was £3.2 billion in...

New ‘spring specials’ from AFI

Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) has launched a pair of seven day 'spring specials' with...

The Leeds cuts buy-to-let rate

Leeds Building Society has made reductions in the headline rate on a number of...

New fixes from Tesco Bank

Tesco Bank has launched three new fixed rate mortgage products over two, three and...

Record number of new complaint cases for FOS

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) handled 2,161,439 initial enquiries and complaints from consumers over...

Nationwide raises mortgage overpayment ceiling

Nationwide Building Society has increased the amount borrowers can overpay on their mortgage. The mutual...

Fee hikes often offsetting fixed rate decrease

The number of mortgages available for borrowers has risen by 34% since April 2012...

The Saffron seeks to strengthen intermediary presence

Saffron Building Society has launched a new intermediary website, which is being supported by...

Monthly rise in remortgaging

Monthly gross remortgage lending increased by £489m in April to £3.4bn, according to latest...

AFI unveils new ‘seven-day specials’

Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) has launched two new seven day spring specials with no...

Leeds offers five-year deal at 3.19%

Leeds Building Society has cut the rate on its five-year fixed rate mortgage, available...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...