Remortgages

Remortgaging at highest rate for a decade

UK Finance has reported that there were 50,500 new homeowner remortgages completed in October,...

NatWest announces rate increases

NatWest is introducing tomorrow (12 December) rate changes on selected core and semi-exclusive residential...

Barclays to offer 1.53% two-year fix

Barclays is making rate reductions tomorrow (27 November). It is reducing its two-year and five-year...

TSB unveils product transfer service

TSB has introduced Rate Switch, its new product transfer service. It was launched earlier than...

Remortgaging levels out

UK Finance has revealed that there were 29,400 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

FSE Midlands: 2018 has been product transfer year

2018 has been dubbed ‘the year of the product transfer’ by participants in ‘The...

SVR mortgages more costly for landlords than at start of 2018

Landlords on standard variable buy-to-let rates are paying typically £27 more per month for...

Complete FS remortgages £21.6m buy-to-let portfolio

Complete FS has announced the completion of its biggest buy-to-let case, with the remortgage...

83% of borrowers consult a broker when remortgaging

LMS has reported that remortgaging volumes reached an eight-year high in July. Although transaction levels...

Remortgaging remained dominant in August

UK Finance has reported that gross mortgage lending for the total market in August...

Vida unveils new build and ‘speedy remortgage’ propositions

Vida Homeloans has made changes to its new build proposition, as well as introducing...

Secure Trust Bank expands 90% LTV mortgage availability

Secure Trust Bank Mortgages has added 90% LTV products to its core range, with...

Newcastle Intermediaries makes buy-to-let rate cuts

Newcastle Intermediaries is reducing its buy-to-let rates by up to 0.64 percentage points. The cuts...

Paymentshield to hold webinar on learning from Netflix

General insurance firm Paymentshield is hosting a webinar on the lessons that advisers can...

COMMENT

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,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 20

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

Latest news

Foundation raises maximum residential lending age to 80

Foundation Home Loans has increased its maximum residential lending age from 75 to 80...

First-time buyers wait six years to buy as lifestyle priorities reshape purchasing decisions

First-time buyers are spending an average of six years saving for a deposit as...

Tipton cuts buy-to-let rates and brings back high income multiple mortgages

Tipton & Coseley Building Society has reduced rates across parts of its buy-to-let range...

Leeds BS cuts residential mortgage rates by up to 0.32%

Leeds Building Society has reduced rates across its mainstream residential mortgage range by up...

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