Mortgage News, Insights & Advice

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,...

Accord mortgages, perhaps a somewhat lesser known UK mortgage lender, has today announced some very interesting New Build mortgage affordability criteria. If you are in the market for purchasing a new build residential home, then this new update will be right up your...

In a very interesting move this week, one of the UK's big six mortgage lenders has narrowly undercut one of their major competitors to offer the current lowest mortgage rate on the mainstream market. A new NatWest mortgage rate of 3.77% has been released this week,...

Is it possible to get a 5.5X income mortgage? That is a very common question that I am hearing more and more. Mainly because borrowing money is becoming more difficult. When I first started working in mortgages and property, there were plenty of purchase schemes...