Mortgages

BM Solutions cuts rates on certain 75% LTV products

BM Solutions is reducing rates by 0.15bps and increasing cashback on selected products currently...

Tesco Bank unveils new mortgage products

Tesco Bank is now offering new mortgage deals with rates starting at 2.28% on...

Precise Mortgages cuts homeowner rates

Precise Mortgages has reduced the price of its homeowner mortgage rates by up to...

FLS “having an effect”

There are tentative signs that the Funding For Lending scheme (FLS) is easing credit...

Strong performance from mutuals in 2012

Gross mortgage lending by building societies and other mutual lenders last year was £30.7...

Exclusive Skipton deal for PMS & Sesame ARs

Members of PMS and appointed representatives of Sesame network now have access to a...

Accord Mortgages to cut rates

Accord Mortgages will be reducing some rates by up to 0.50 percentage points from...

Rate cuts and LTV rises from Aldermore

Aldermore has revamped its range of residential buy-to-let mortgages. The range now includes the following: A...

2012 saw year-on-year fall in LTVs

Income growth among homebuyers was overshadowed by rising deposits and mortgages last year, according...

The Nationwide cuts tracker rates

The Nationwide Building Society is tomorrow (30 January) reducing its tracker rates by up...

The Skipton makes rate cuts

Skipton Building Society has reduced the interest rates on a selection of its buy-to-let...

New 80% deals from NatWest IS

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is tomorrow (29 January) launching a number of new 80% LTV...

Chelsea unveils 60% LTV product

Chelsea Building Society has added a a new, lower-LTV (loan to value) product to...

Understanding reasons to be cheerful

I’m not sure if it’s just the fact that a New Year has begun...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Latest news

Barclays cuts rates across more than 20 mortgage products

Barclays is cutting rates across more than 20 residential mortgage products from Wednesday 22...

Skipton cuts rates and adds new fixed deals for existing borrowers

Skipton Building Society is cutting rates on parts of its residential mortgage range and...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you...

Richard Goppy to rejoin PMS as director of acquisition and key accounts

PMS Mortgage Club has confirmed the appointment of Richard Goppy as director of acquisition...

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