Mortgage News, Insights & Advice

Is the UK housing market improving? There is a lot of conflicting information in the news at the moment about the state of property purchase and sale in the UK. Some people are reporting that property prices are dropping rapidly due to a lack of appetite caused by the...

The average age of a first-time buyer is going up. I'm sure that is no surprise to anyone. Most people reading this article probably have stories of how their grandparents and parents bought their first house at the age of 20 for a couple of thousand pounds and will...

80% buy-to-let mortgages from TMW are back. Yes, you read that correctly. TMW, the buy-to-let arm of Nationwide Building Society have announced the re-introduction of 80% LTV buy-to-let loans to their product offerings, as well as several other positive changes to...

TSB have announced some surprisingly huge new increases to their interest rates this morning. As brokers, we did expect that we would see TSB rates increasing, however these new products seem to be much higher than most other lenders. The question on everyone's lips...

Coventry Building Society have announced a return to the market with some new higher rates, after withdrawing almost all of their existing residential products last week. For reasons that will no doubt become clearer in the next few weeks when the Bank of England's...

A recent study in to the impact of mortgage rate rises since the end of 2022 suggests that the borrowers of average 2-Year Fixed Mortgages are £35 a month or £420 a year worse off, with many paying even more than that on their mortgage deals. How long can this payment...

Recent data released by the Bank of England has revealed that mortgage approval has dropped and continues to drop as well as the number of new mortgage borrowing. The main reason for this? The economic crisis. A significant downturn in the UK economy, combined with...

Nationwide building society announced on the 15th of May 2023 that they would soon be introducing a new green 0% mortgage product for additional borrowing on properties. What does this mean exactly? Well it doesn't mean that you won't have to pay anything at all on...

Mortgage lender Bank of Ireland, normally known for their exclusive low bespoke rate products have announced that we will soon see buy to let rates increasing across their product offerings. A shock certainly to see this from Bank of Ireland but an understandable...

Several UK mortgage lenders have started enhancing their interest only criteria with some great new positive changes, making life much easier for borrowers and brokers alike. When getting a new mortgage, it has traditionally been a default setting (so to speak) to...

The Office of National Statistics have sensationally announced that UK inflation has dropped to 8.7%, the first time it has been below double figures in almost a year. So what does this mean for definite? What could it mean for the future? And what does this mean for...

A newly announced government initiative could see lenders providing mortgage rate reductions for energy efficient homes or homeowners who are willing to make improvements to their existing properties, making them more energy efficient. With the average mortgage rate...