Remortgages

Accord announces new fixed rates

Accord Mortgages has unveiled a range of fixed-rate remortgage deals. The intermediary-only lender has launched new remortgage...

June saw remortgage lending fall year-on-year

LMS's monthly tracker has found there were 32,873 remortgage loans taken out in June,...

Pre-referendum remortgaging activity at eight-year high

The percentage of remortgagors opting for a broker or adviser to guide them through...

CML: mortgage market regaining some equilibrium

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that home-owners borrowed £9.4bn for house purchase,...

Skipton Intermediaries unveils three-year fixes

Skipton Intermediaries has launched a new range of intermediary only products for purchase and remortgage. Key...

Best May for remortgaging in eight years

Monthly gross remortgage lending totalled £5bn in May 2016, according to LMS, up by...

16% have never changed their mortgage

2.5 million people in Britain, equivalent to 16% of all mortgage holders, have never...

Strong remortgage activity in May

LMS has revealed that 56% of those remortgaging in May took advantage of the...

Hinckley & Rugby lending figures aided by retentions

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society beat its lending target in the first half of...

The Nationwide extends maximum borrowing age

The Nationwide Building Society's new maximum age for borrowing of 85 will apply to...

Kent Reliance to pay product transfer proc fee

Kent Reliance has unveiled its ‘Choices’ product transfer scheme that pays a procuration fee for brokers,...

April bounceback for remortgaging

Monthly gross remortgage lending rose to £6.4bn in April 2016, the largest amount since...

Slight shift in reasons for remortgaging

There was a fall of four percentage points in the number of people opting...

Remortgaging defies seasonal slowdown

The total number of valuations carried out in April rose 24% year-on-year – a...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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