Remortgages

New fee-free mortgage deals from TSB

TSB Bank has introduced new products into its residential range of mortgages. There are new...

TSB cuts range of residential rates

TSB Bank has reduced a number of rates within its residential mortgage range. First-time buyer...

Stark difference in average minimum and maximum loan amounts available

The average maximum loan available to mortgage borrowers in November was £278,145, while the...

Foundation Home Loans unveils BTL & residential remortgages

Foundation Home Loans has launched new remortgage products across both its buy-to-let and residential...

BoE: highest number of mortgage approvals since September 2007

The Bank of England has reported that households borrowed an additional £4.3 billion secured...

Coventry for Intermediaries to introduce new deals up to 75% LTV

Coventry for Intermediaries is adding new products to its owner-occupied mortgage range this week,...

Second charges an alternative to high LTV remortgages

Specialist brokerage Loans Warehouse has urged brokers to look second charge lending if they...

Purchase values up 12% but remortgage values drop

MCI Club’s latest analysis of mortgage activity over July and August has found that,...

NatWest Intermediary Solutions makes core product rate changes

NatWest has made rate changes across its Core Product range. For remortgage applications, the lender...

Remortgage values rise in Q2 while approval numbers fall

LMS has published its latest Remortgage Healthcheck Index, covering Q1 and Q2 2020, produced...

Monthly cost of moving to SVR revealed

Homeowners who have lapsed onto a Standard Variable Rate (SVR) mortgage  are collectively spending...

Decreasing instruction volumes “not yet cause for concern”

LMS has reported that the continued growth of instruction volumes it had seen in...

LMS optimistic for “more confident and stable” remortgage market

LMS has published its latest weekly update, tracking remortgage market performance through the Covid-19...

Dream home priorities shift during lockdown

Research from the Skipton Building Society reveals more than a quarter of the 2,000...

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Heavy refurbishment: structuring finance for complex property upgrades

Investors are rethinking their approach to property - heavy refurbishment is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity for unlocking value in today’s...

Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

Why it matters that bridging hit more than £10bn last year

We see many numbers bandied around in the financial industry, which can sometimes have a numbing effect. So why should we all, especially brokers, care...

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Three-quarters of brokers expect rate hold

76% of specialist brokers expect that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...

The Finance Family adopts Acre as platform for growth

Midlands-based The Finance Family has migrated its team of over 20 brokers to Acre’s...

‘Consumer thinking’ holding businesses back from better finance solutions

New research from Time Finance has revealed that many UK businesses default to consumer-style...

British Business Bank reports how pivotal first Covid lockdown was

Five years since the first Covid-19 lockdown, new data from Start Up Loans, part...