Mortgages

Halifax Intermediaries cuts rates

Halifax Intermediaries has reduced rates across its mortgage range. A 90% LTV two-year fixed rate...

Barclays the latest to cut rates

Barclays is reducing the rates on six of its fixed rates mortgages by up...

Nationwide reduces fixed and tracker rates

Nationwide Building Society is cutting fixed and tracker rates by up to 0.40 percentage...

Slump in mortgage approvals last month

Gross mortgage lending of £7.2 billion in June was below the six-month average and...

Average rental yields are over 6.0%: TBMC

In the second quarter of 2012 the average buy-to-let variable rate was 4.10% compared...

Portfolio expansion driving buy-to-let market

There has been a rise in landlord clients applying for buy-to-let mortgages to expand...

Virgin Money to buy NRAM assets

Virgin Money is to buy £465 million of NRAM mortgage assets from UK Asset...

All 99 and no flake

The news a couple of months ago of the resignation of Adrian Bloomfield from...

Digesting the Funding for Lending scheme

It may still be too early to fully digest what impact the Bank of...

AFI offers new Key Account exclusives

Abbey for Intermediaries has launched a pair of fixed rate deals, exclusive to selected...

Santander unveils 2.99% five-year fix

Santander has launched a new five-year fixed rate mortgage of 2.99%. It is...

Halifax removes upfront fees on certain products

Halifax has removed upfront fees on a range of two-year fixed rate remortgage products. The...

Skipton pulls 3.99% seven-year fix

Skipton Building Society has withdrawn its seven-year fix after lending all of the allocated...

Coventry Intermediaries extends buy-to-let range

Coventry Intermediaries has extending its new range of buy-to-let products. It has added more...
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The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Building Societies

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...
Building Societies

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...
Buy-to-let

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...
valuations

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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