Remortgages

Only 50% of advisers offer seconds to clients

Up to one in 10 remortgage or further advance customers could benefit from a...

Accord reduces residential rates

Accord Mortgages has unveiled a range of residential deals, with rate cuts of up...

New five-year remortgage deal from the Leeds

The  Leeds Building Society has launched a new five-year fixed rate remortgage deal. The 3.34%...

Remortgagers increasingly opting for fixed rates

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has found that the average remortgage loan has reached a...

New Leeds remortgage deals for Help to Buy borrowers

Those people who were among the first to purchase their properties under the government’s Help...

CML: uptick in remortgage activity among home-owners

First-time buyers saw a large month-on-month increase in activity in June compared to May,...

The Teachers cuts buy-to-let rates

The Teachers Building Society has reduced the rate on its new buy-to-let products. The mortgages are...

New broker deals from Platform

Platform has rejigged its mainstream mortgage range available to brokers. Changes include reductions of up to 0.15% percentage...

Summer sees remortgage lending gradually creeping up

35% of borrowers who remortgaged last month chose to increase the size of their...

Time for remortgage clients to grasp the nettle

The Bank Base Rate (BBR) rollercoaster appears to have been steadily cranked up in...

New fixed-fee deals from Halifax Intermediaries

Halifax Intermediaries has unveiled a range of 」795 fixed fee mortgages on two and five...

BBA: remortgage approvals up 20%

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) has reported that mortgage approvals were around 8% higher...

Brokers expect remortgaging to be growth area

Mortgage brokers are expecting a rise in remortgaging over the next 12 months as...

Halifax cuts mortgage rates

Halifax has cut mortgage rates across its 0-95% loan to value (LTV) two-year fixed first-time...

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

The Yorkshire appoints two non-executive directors

Yorkshire Building Society has appointed Barry O’Dwyer and Philippa Brown as independent non-executive directors. The...

HSBC cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a broad selection of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

NHS workers priced out as affordability gap widens

Many NHS workers are being priced out of homeownership with average first-time buyer properties...

Metro Bank strengthens specialist mortgage team

Metro Bank has expanded its specialist mortgage team with a series of appointments and...

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