Remortgages

Continued lending growth in Wales

Latest Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) data has shown that lending in Wales for...

8% rise in first-time buyers in Scotland

Annual home-owner house purchase lending in Scotland in 2015 totalled 64,800 loans, up 9%...

2015 fall in London house purchase lending

House purchase lending in London fell in 2015 in comparison with the previous year,...

Scottish Widows holds protection workshops

Scottish Widows, which recently returned to the intermediary protection market, has held a series...

Remortgage lending bounces back

Monthly gross remortgage lending rose to a seven-year high of £6.2bn in January 2016,...

Choice of mortgage deals at near-eight-year high

Mortgage Advice Bureau's National Mortgage Index for January found  here were 17,132 products available on the...

CML: gross lending to steadily increase over next 24 months

In December 2015 first-time buyers borrowed £4.5bn for home-owner house purchase, up 7% on...

2015 saw new low for fixed rates

Fixed rate mortgages fell to their lowest levels last year, while the standard variable...

64% of remortgagors secured a lower rate

11% of borrowers who remortgaged in December did so to pay off other debts...

New record peak in secured lending

October secured lending totalled £98.5m, increasing 6% from the previous record set in September,...

BBA: gross mortgage borrowing up 24% year-on-year

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) has stated that gross mortgage borrowing of £12.4 billion...

Nine-year high for equity withdrawals

The total amount of equity withdrawn through remortgaging reached £837m in the final month...

New buy-to-let deals from TSB

TSB Bank has launched two new mortgages for buy-to-let landlords looking to remortgage. Both deals are for...

Mortgage brokers “have high expectations for remortgaging”

There was a record high in the level of mortgage intermediaries’ confidence in the prospects...

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Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

Why we shouldn’t wait for the FCA to act on later life lending

It might feel odd to be talking about a new year, when we’re barely half-way through this one, but the recent FCA Discussion Paper...

A walk on the supply side

The UK government’s stated goal to build 1.5 million homes during the current parliamentary term underlines a strong political focus on addressing the housing...

Don’t build in fear – quality must come before quotas

“This is my message to housebuilders: get on with it. If you promise homes, you have to build them.” - Prime Minister Keir Starmer, 25...

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Millbrook Business Finance appoints operations director

Millbrook Business Finance has appointed Sally Chesterton as operations director. Chesterton (pictured) brings more than...

Nationwide cuts residential mortgage rates

Nationwide has announced a fresh round of rate reductions across its mortgage range, with...

Precise raises borrowing limits to 6x income

Precise Mortgages has lifted its loan-to-income cap to six times earnings. The lender’s criteria update...

Fleet Mortgages reduces two-year fixed rates by up to 25bps

Fleet Mortgages has announced a series of rate cuts of up to 25 basis...