Mortgage News, Insights & Advice

As predicted by most people, the Bank of England has announced that they will be increasing the base rate again. This time by 0.25%. The new Bank of England Base Rate of 4.5% is a whopping 3.5% increase on the 1% level that it was in May 2022 and a 15-year high. What...

Accord mortgages have announced that they will be making it easier for people to borrow more than 4.49X their income as a mortgage. The standard borrowing amount for most people looking to get a residential mortgage is between 4X and 4.5X income, with lenders offering...

As the tight grip of the UK's current economic crisis takes hold, millions are starting to notice that their money isn't getting them as far as it once did. The price of energy bills has increased significantly, costing homeowners and renters thousands more per year....

Buy-to-let affordability assessment stress tests and calculations have got extremely strict in comparison to where they were last year. Lenders have had to restrict their generosity with affordability assessments and increase their requirements at affordability stage...

Building society Skipton have sensationally announced that they are launching a new 100% mortgage product, that means that potential borrowers can get a mortgage for 100% of the value of a property, without having to contribute any deposit themselves! This is a very...

Data released recently by the Bank of England has shown that mortgage approval rate in the UK has jumped significantly in the period from March to April 2023. A good sign that stability will return to the property market, if it hasn't already. The Bank of England, the...

Landlords have it easy, right? Buy a house, rent it out to someone, collect the money and sit back on your golden throne. Well that simply isn't true at all. And for 99% of people with rental properties, keeping a profitable rental property has become extremely...

The Bank of England's next monetary policy committee meeting is scheduled to take place on the 11th of May however, it seems that lots of lenders are already jumping the gun and introducing mortgage rate rises across their product offerings. Some lenders are also...

This week, and specifically in the last couple of days, we have seen a lot of mortgage lender changes being announced. Changes around mortgage interest rate increases, mortgage interest rate decreases, product withdrawals, product introductions, and changes to lender...

In recent times, we have noticed that there has been a significant shift in the market in terms of the length of time that people are taking a mortgage for. It used to be the case that a 25 or perhaps 30 year mortgage term was a standard number of years for someone to...