Mortgages

April sees major drop-off in FTBs

April saw a fall in house purchase lending, in particular to first-time buyers, according...

Virgin Money cuts Northern Rock rates

Virgin Money has cut the interest rates on a selection of its fixed rate...

AFI alters mortgage offering

Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) is making changes to its mortgage range tomorrow (15 June...

New fixed rates from the Leeds

Leeds Building Society has introduced a new five-year fixed rate mortgage at 3.89%. It...

Renters struggling to save to buy a home

Saving to buy a home while renting is looking like a less reliable route...

Rate rises behind remortgage advice searches

Searches for remortgage advice increased to 35% of all whole of market mortgage enquiries...

L&G Mortgage Club grows Progressive partnership

Legal & General Mortgage Club has extended its existing partnership with Progressive Building Society...

New buy-to-let exclusive from TBMC

TBMC is offering a new buy-to-let exclusive with Hinckley & Rugby Building Society. The...

May mortgage market sees return to growth

The latest Housing Market Activity Report by Connells Survey & Valuation has reported return...

New three and five-year fixes from the Skipton

Skipton Building Society has refreshed its range of three and five-year fixed rate mortgages. It...

Blemain Group to relocate

Blemain Group is to move offices to ‘Lake View’ Cheadle Royal Business Park on...

The evolution of the mortgage club

Phil Whitehouse, head of TMA, wonders if there is such a thing as 'more...

Economic uncertainty behind The Chelsea’s Track & Fix take-up

The Chelsea Building Society says it is witnessing growth in the numbers of borrowers...

Fixed and tracker fees up by one-fifth in three years

Fees for fixed and tracker mortgage products have risen by over 20% since September...
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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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