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Latest figures released by estate agents claim that London’s first-time buyers leaving the capital to purchase their first home has increased by 1/5th compared to pre-pandemic figures. It seems that a combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and the risking rate of...
Mortgages. Chances are that most people will need one at some point in their life. As mortgage brokers, our passion is to help our clients to get the best deal possible so that they can either buy their dream property, invest in a buy-to-let or remortgage their...
TSB have sent communication out to all register TSB mortgage brokers today to announce the re-introduction of some essential products. The lender, which is part of the Lloyds banking group, have said that they are re-introducing several house purchase and...
Mortgage lenders HSBC, TSB and Santander have all increased their mortgage rates this week, alongside a lot of other lenders in what seems to be a bout of mass hysteria from the banks. Since the Bank of England pushed the base rate up to 1.25% the other month, lenders...
Chorley building society have announced that they will be making changes to their products which offer mortgages for low credit scores. Chorely building society currently offers a range of products called the ‘credit renew range’ which are designed specifically for...
Specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender Birmingham Midshires (BM Solutions), part of the Lloyds Banking Group, have today sent out word to registered mortgage brokers that they will be introducing new products for energy efficient home mortgages. In a conscious...
In suit with a lot of other mortgage lenders, Bank Of Ireland have today announced that they are withdrawing rates on residential products and replacing them with new higher rates. This increase of Bank Of Ireland mortgage rates follows a long line of mortgage lenders...
Accord Mortgages have announced that they will be reducing their residential mortgage rates on selected products. A welcome change from other lenders hiking their rates up. The intermediary only lender said the following in a message to all registered brokers: We’re...
Key facts: Client looking to sell current property that they have owned for several years to purchase a larger family home Clients had a good amount of equity in their property so would have some spare cash left over once it was sold The clients had a few credit cards...
Over the last few days, UK property advertisement portal Rightmove have released figures and information that are a result of careful analysis of the property market this year. Some of the highlights they have commented on so far are house prices hitting a 6-month...
Santander for intermediaries have sent out emails to all registered mortgage intermediaries today announcing that they will be freezing their current mortgage product rates and they will avoid raising mortgage rates for at least one month. In comparison, Nationwide...
Halifax have announced that as of the 18th of July (this coming Monday) they will be raising interest rates...again…on selected 2-year and 10-year products. They have said that the rises could be as much as 0.32%. Here are the details we know about the new Halifax...
