Mortgages
Tesco offers market-leading mortgage to Clubcard customers
Tesco Mortgage Finder is offering a limited number of competitive mortgages from Saffron Building Society exclusively to Clubcard customers.
Pick a mortgage champion rather than a relegation contender
With the start of the Premiership this weekend, John Charcol takes a look at the current fitness of the market and picks the mortgage winners and relegation fodder.
HSBC fee free mortgage
Julia Harris, Mortgage Expert at Moneyfacts.co.uk, comments: “With so much bad publicity surrounding rising arrangement fees and unfair exit charges and with many borrowers struggling to find the upfront costs needed to move home and find a new mortgage deal, its no wonder lenders are launching no fee mortgage deals.
Grab a best rate Giraffe and £1000 this August
Giraffe is adding to its best rate mortgages this August, by offering customers the potential to win £1000.
You don’t have to sacrifice a great mortgage rate to be green
With the financial services ‘green’ sector in it’s infancy, much has been made in recent articles about the fact that if your conscience wants to be green then you must pay a premium for this and you can expect your choice of products to be limited.
YBS launches two 25 year fixed rate mortgages
Yorkshire Building Society is launching two new 25 year fixed rate mortgages with rates of 6.29% and 6.49%, available from Wednesday 15th August.
Co-operative Bank launches new tracker mortgage
The Co-operative Bank has today launched a new tracker rate mortgage, details of the new product are as follows:
L&C launches long-term fixed rate mortgage with no ERCs
L&C, the no-fee mortgage broker, has launched a long-term fixed rate deal with no Early Repayment Charges (ERCs) at any time.
HSBC removes all fees on mortgages until end of September
As homeowners struggle to compare mortgages with multiple fees – HSBC simplifies the process by removing all fees until 30 September.
Improved specialist mortgage deals from Alliance & Leicester
Alliance & Leicester’s Prime Self Cert and Near Prime deals have been improved to become even more competitive with fixed rates reduced and end dates extended.
Buy-to-let hunters turn to the ‘movies’ for inspiration
Interest in the buy-to-let market is as strong as ever amongst would-be borrowers and IFAs according to findings from Standard Life Bank.
Standard Life Bank continues revamp of buy-to-let range
Standard Life Bank is introducing free legals and no valuation fees to its Freestyle buy-to-let remortgage range as part of wide-ranging buy-to-let enhancements.
Woolwich slashes two year fixed rate mortgage
With consumer nervousness continuing over how far rates will increase, Woolwich today cuts the borrowing rate on its two year fixed rate.
Arrears and possessions “exceedingly low” by historic standards
Although the numbers of mortgage possessions rose again in the first half of 2007, accounts in arrears by 12 months or more actually fell and those less than 12 months in arrears rose only slightly.
Citizens Advice: CML repossession figures
Citizens Advice policy officer Peter Tutton said: “Local Citizens Advice Bureaux are seeing more people who are falling behind with mortgage payments and in some cases threatened with repossession, and we know some people are taking on mortgages that push them to the absolute limit.