Remortgages

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The total amount of equity withdrawn through remortgaging reached £837m in the final month...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

BTL purchases to outstrip remortgages this quarter?

The latest Complex Buy-to-Let Index from Mortgages for Business has found that last year...

Remortgage market remaining extremely strong

The number of borrowers renewing their mortgage has doubled year-on-year in the six months...

New high for remortgaged equity withdrawal

The average amount of equity withdrawn from remortgaging has hit a new record of...

Rise in brokered remortgage volumes

31% of borrowers who remortgaged in November, did so to increase the size of...

Rise in house purchase lending

The Autumn Statement accompanied a house purchase lending jump this November, but first-time buyers...

BoE: 8.5% rise in gross advances

The proportion of lending for house purchase in the third quarter of the year...

Costs of failing to remortgage revealed

14% of homeowners attempting to remortgage in the past two years have failed to...

TSB tweaks rates

TSB has made rate adjustments to three residential mortgages available through brokers.  TSB’s two-year fixed and...

Record levels of remortgaging activity in October

79% of remortgagors switched lenders when seeking a different remortgage deal during October, according...

LMS: remortgaging “back with a bang”

The value of monthly gross remortgage lending has risen to £6.1bn in October, according...

Assess remortgages and second charges “without prejudice”

Tim Wheeldon, joint managing director at Fluent Money, has responded to the belief that second charge...
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COMMENT

Analysis

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...

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