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Precise Mortgages makes American money available to UK buy-to-lets 26 May 2010 | 03:07 am
The UK buy-to-let market must have signs of life, strong enough to be perceived even from overseas, because – hot on the heels of the Aldermore news – a new lender has entered the market this week. P...
Aldermore Bank now offers residential and buy-to-let mortgages 23 May 2010 | 01:16 am
A new lender enters the UK mortgage market this week, making the most of all the savings money it has accumulated in the last 9 months. The new entrant is Aldermore Bank. It's not a new entity: f...
High LTV mortgages: lots more fixed rates now available, but few trackers 26 Feb 2010 | 09:52 pm
Number of fixed-rate mortgage deals at 90%+ loan-to-value has almost doubled in a year There are now 147 fixed-rate mortgage available if you have less than 10 per cent deposit — an 88% increase on t...
Skipton BS swallows UK's oldest building society 25 Feb 2010 | 04:17 pm
Today, Skipton Building Society (89 branches, 830,000 members, the UK's fourth largest) takes over Chesham Building Society (3 branches, 20,000 members, one of the smallest — and, established in 1...
Santander's rash of mortgage rate cuts 25 Feb 2010 | 11:48 am
Santander cuts its fixed rates today by up to 0.40 per cent Responding to a general increase in mortgage market competitiveness, Santander has trimmed the rates on its five-year fixed rate mortgages ...
Newcastle BS launches 90% loan-to-value mortgages 22 Feb 2010 | 01:54 pm
High LTV mortgages not just for first-time buyers Newcastle Building Society today launches mortgages for up-to-90-per-cent LTV borrowers. They're not only intended for first-timers into the hous...
Never mind buy-to-let: renting out your own home is also getting harder 19 Feb 2010 | 07:33 pm
If you're an owner occupier but you decide to live elsewhere for a short while, most people would assume it's OK to rent out your home. However, on a residential mortgage you need what's ...
Principality turns 150 and bucks building society trend 18 Feb 2010 | 09:52 pm
Wales' principal building society approaching its anniversary relatively free of struggles While many building societies are struggling to balance the demands of savers and mortgage borrowers — w...
Skipton mortgage hike: what's exceptional about now? 12 Feb 2010 | 04:45 am
Skipton Building Society hikes its mortgage SVR by over 1 percentage point, affecting thousands. When you're a mortgage customer sticking to your building society's Standard Variable Rate, yo...
Building Society merger: Yorkshire and Chelsea 2 Feb 2010 | 01:03 pm
Yorkshire and Chelsea building societies are planning a merger that has just been approved by both sets of members. If the formalities go ahead, the resulting building society will be the UK's se...
