Sharon Van Loenen

Pound-for-pound remortgages might be the best kept secret in BTL lending right now. This clever feature in a lender’s criteria offers a route for intermediaries to help landlord borrowers whose rent is very tight, who therefore might believe that a product transfer with their existing lender is their only option. In short, a pound-for-pound remortgage […]

West One would like to update you with our LATEST Residential news. We are excited to unveil a brand-new look for our residential mortgage product range. Please see below updates, we’d be delighted if you can share with your members. Key overview of the changes: Introducing two brand new products, Premier and Platinum to replace our

In today’s market it’s great to see that 90% of mortgages are written through intermediaries. This demonstrates that customers really recognise the value of specific advice based on their own circumstances. Pepper Money also believes that every customer and their own set of circumstances are unique, and as part of such, we are increasingly seeing

3 reasons to tell your BTL client about ERC-3 ERC-3 is a mortgage product which benefits from a 5-year fixed rate but only carries Early Repayment Charges for 3 years. The rate fixed for 5 years A five-year fixed rate offers borrowers the security of knowing their mortgage payments won’t change in that time. Currently,

Just to give you an idea of what is happening on the 22nd November.  There are some slight rate increases as follows: CHANGES: Owner Occupier Repayment Core & JBSP 2-year fixed rates increase by 5bps Core & JBSP 5-year fixed rates increase by 15bps Family Mortgage increase by 10bps Professional product withdrawn Owner Occupier Interest-Only

Yields achieved by landlords increased in the third quarter of the year, continuing their strong performance from mid-2022, data from buy-to-let mortgage specialist Paragon Bank has revealed. Based on mortgage offer data for buy-to-let purchase and remortgage, the average yield hit 6.72% in September, up from 6.69% at the end of the second quarter of

On Friday 22 November 2024, we’ll be making changes to our mortgage product range. This includes increases across our Fixed Rate products for Owner Occupier and Interest-Only, as well as Buy to Let. Additionally, our Professional Mortgage product will be withdrawn, and we’ll be launching a new 5 Year Fixed Rate Expat product and a new 2 Year Fixed Rate Joint