Remortgages

New remortgage deals from TSB

TSB has unveiled a new range of remortgage products available to homeowners with small...

Buoyant February for remortgaging

Monthly gross remortgage lending fell to £4.4bn in February 2016, down by 24% from...

Halifax introduces new remortgage offer

Halifax has unveiled a new offer for customers looking to remortgage direct with the...

Borrowers still remortgaging to cut costs

January 2016 saw a three percentage point fall in the proportion of remortgagors who believe...

BoE reports strong lending start to 2016

Latest statistics from the Bank of England show the number of loan approvals for house...

N. Ireland lending highest level since mid-2007

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has revealed that lending in Northern Ireland for house...

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...

COMMENT

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

Latest news

No-deposit mortgages carry £73,000 London interest premium

London first-time buyers using a no-deposit mortgage could pay more than £73,000 in additional...

Conveyancing Association begins search for new chair

Nicky Heathcote is to step down as non-executive chair of the Conveyancing Association as...

Overseas funds used by almost one in 10 home buyers

Almost one in 10 home buyers use money originating overseas to fund all or...

Two-thirds of landlords’ HMOs achieve EPC ratings of A to C

Two-thirds of houses in multiple occupation owned by landlords surveyed by Paragon Bank have...

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