Mortgage News, Insights & Advice
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New TSB Mortgage Rate Reductions Announced
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,...
New Build Mortgage Affordability Changes Announced By Accord
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...
NatWest Mortgage Rate Of 3.77% Narrowly Undercuts Nationwide
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,...
Help To Buy Deadline Extended
The Help to Buy scheme was a scheme introduced by the UK government in 2013 as a means of boosting the new build property market and to give more people the chance to purchase their dream home. The scheme ran successfully from 2013 until the end of this year when it...
Can You Get A Mortgage If You Have, Or Have Had Cancer?
When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness like cancer, there are a multitude of questions that swirl around people's heads. Am I going to be ok? Will I get better? Will my family be ok? Will I be able to keep earning an income? How will this impact my quality...
The Rise Of The Loft Conversion In London
Take a stroll down any residential street in London, specifically Southwest London for us being based in Putney, chances are that you will stumble across a loft conversion taking place. The tell-tale signs are a large metal structure protruding from the front of a...
Are Buy-To-Let Mortgages Recovering?
Finance expert and press officer at Moneyfacts.com Rachael Springall released a report yesterday into the re-emergence of Buy-to-let mortgages over the last week or so after being completely decimated in recent months. The financial crisis that the UK (and the world...
Virgin Money Releases New Low Mortgage Rates
Virgin money for intermediaries, the mortgage lending side of the Virgin conglomerate, have announced that they will be making significant rate reductions for some of their mortgage products. These new low mortgage rates are a good sign that mortgages are slowly...
Mortgage Products Down 41%. Speak To An Advisor Now.
2022, specifically the last few months of 2022, has been a challenging year for everyone and as mortgage professionals we have seen first-hand how 2022 has affected people's finances. A series of rather disastrous financial decisions made by the UK government and...
Reduced Rates For Major Buy-To-Let Lender
In a very well received message to all mortgage brokers registered, buy-to-let lender The Mortgage Works (TMW) have announced that they will be the latest in a long line of mortgage lenders who are dropping their rates. In recent weeks, many mortgage lenders have been...
5-Year Fixed Mortgages Are Finally Below 6%
The news we have all been waiting to hear! Finally, 5-year fixed mortgages are below 6% again. The first time this has happened in almost 2 months. Does this signal a drop in all products is on the horizon? Or is this just an anomaly? The average 5-year fixed mortgage...
Getting Mortgages For Doctors
As a medical professional, you have perhaps one of the most important jobs you can have. It is your responsibility to treat ill or injured people regardless of any personal, political, ideological or any other kind of differences. Your selfless commitment as a doctor...
Mortgages For A Partner In A Business
So, you started off as the document filer in the mailroom straight out of school. With little or no experience in business, you've fought and clawed your way up and learned everything you know along the way from your peers and now you have made it to the top of the...
62% Of Borrowers Are Worried About Mortgage Payments
New data released by researcher QuMind has revealed that a shocking 62% of Britons that they interviewed are concerned about rising mortgage payments or rent payments if their landlord's mortgage and utilities go up. The organisation interviewed a test group of...
More Lender Rates Coming Down
This week has already started with a bang, in a positive way! More and more mortgage lender rates are coming down across products and borrowing is finally becoming cheaper. This week alone HSBC, Virgin, Clydesdale, Coventry and Paragon have all already reduced their...
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