Trackers

Nationwide reintroduces two-year trackers and cuts rates

The Nationwide Building Society is to pass on a further 0.15 percentage point reduction...

Barclays cuts high LTV purchase rates

Barclays is making a number of changes across its residential, buy-to-let and Reward ranges...

Buy-to-let mortgage costs continue to fall

Latest figures from Mortgage Brain’s quarterly product data analysis reveal that mortgage costs in...

H1 fall in costs of long-term mortgages

Mortgage Brain has reported that the majority of three and five-year fixed rate residential mortgages have...

Buy-to-let mortgage costs start to fall

Mortgage Brain’s latest quarterly product data analysis has revealed that while the buy-to-Let market...

Barclays cuts rates on seven deals

Barclays is making changes across its residential, and buy-to-let and Reward ranges. The changes, which...

TSB unveils new tracker and remortgage products

TSB Bank has introduced a new two-year buy-to-let tracker product for remortgage and house...

Newcastle Intermediaries revamps 95% LTV offering

Newcastle Intermediaries has cut rates rates on its 95% LTV products of up to...

Little movement in rates and costs of mortgages over past quarter

Mortgage Brain’s latest product data analysis has found that two, three and five year...

The Skipton revamps mortgage offering

The Skipton Building Society has launched a number of refreshed products for residential purchase...

Buy-to-let mortgage market remains unsettled

Mortgage Brain has reported "mixed movement" in the cost of buy-to-let products over the...

Barclays Mortgages revamps product offering

Barclays Mortgages is introducing some new products and making rate reductions across its residential,...

Mortgage costs back on the increase

Residential mortgage costs are back on the rise after two successive quarters reporting a number...

Coutts’ mortgages to be available to intermediaries

Coutts has joined up with mortgage technology expert, Mortgage Brain to make its products...

COMMENT

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

Latest news

Beverley enhances SIPP income assessment

Beverley Building Society has introduced a tiered approach to assessing income from self-invested personal...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM)...

Conveyancing costs hold at 0.53% of house prices

Conveyancing costs remained unchanged as a proportion of UK house prices during the year...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers...

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