All the latest breaking UK mortgage and protection news, updated daily by industry experts.
Barclays Bank has today announced significant reductions to its mortgage rates, offering potential relief to both homebuyers and remortgagers as 2024 comes to an end. The latest changes see Barclays potentially moving closer to the much-anticipated sub-4% mortgage...
NatWest has this morning announced significant rate reductions across its portfolio of mortgage products. The changes, effective immediately, span both residential and buy-to-let (BTL) markets, providing borrowers with more competitive options amid ongoing economic...
Landlord confidence in the UK rental market has seemingly taken a hit, with fewer landlords feeling positive about rental yields compared to a year ago. That is at least according to the latest research from The Mortgage Works (TMW), the UK buy-to-let property market...
Today, The Mortgage Works (TMW) Nationwide Building Society’s buy-to-let lending only arm released their energy efficiency report for the private buy-to-let rental sector. The latest report from The Mortgage Works explores the energy efficiency of the UK's private...
Halifax announced yesterday an increase in interest rates across its 2-year and 5-year fixed mortgage products. Borrowers will see rate hikes ranging between 0.11% and 0.24%, effective immediately. The changes come as part of a broader shift in mortgage pricing, with...
NatWest mortgages are set to take a bashing this week as the lender announces that their mortgage product rates are due to increase by as much as 0.30%. This is a sharp jolt to mortgage borrowers and frankly to mortgage intermediaries who have all been rejoicing over...
Halifax bank, one of the UK's biggest and most well known mortgage lenders will be releasing some new mortgage products over the next few days, most significantly perhaps, they will be releasing mortgages without early repayment charges. Not only does this mean that...
A new-build shared ownership property can be a great option to when looking to take the first steps on the home ownership ladder. House prices are going up, and in many cases it can be quite difficult for first time buyers to firstly save enough money for a deposit,...
As 2024 starts to draw to a close and we enter the final three months of the year, there has been some promising and positive signs for UK property owners regarding UK house prices. Over the last…well…couple of years, really, UK house prices are increased generally....
Recently, celebrity finance expert Martin Lewis was plastered all over social media because of some controversial comments he made about mortgage rates. On television and on various media platforms, he said that some people are holding off arranging their mortgage or...
UK foreign national mortgage lending has just gone through a big change, and this change comes at the hands of mortgage lender Santander. Historically being a foreign national and getting a mortgage in the UK has sometimes been a tricky feat due to things like right...
A new Barclays mortgage product at 3.71% has been announced this week, becoming the latest in quite a few recent announcements from big UK mortgage lenders who are all dropping their rates below 4%. In recent weeks there has been a mortgage 'rate war' or sorts which...
NatWest buy-to-let mortgage products have been hit by some significant rate reductions this morning, giving a boost to both current and aspiring buy-to-let landlord investors. Over the last few years the buy-to-let market has taken a bit of a beating to put it...
This morning Santander joined the bandwagon of UK mortgage lenders dropping their rates below 4%, which is fantastic to see! The new Santander mortgage rates below 4% announced today stretch across their entire mortgage range and are likely to encourage a lot more...
Today, new TSB mortgage rate reductions have been announced, the latest of many UK mortgage lender's reducing their product rates as stability returns to the mortgage market. Over the last few weeks we have sensationally seen many of the UK's mortgage lenders,...
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