Category: Blogs

It seems to be that you can’t turn on the TV without seeing an advert for Equity Release. This is one area of the market that continues to gain momentum. It gets a huge amount of airtime and column inches, yet its estimated to be just a £4bn part of a £260bn+ mortgage market and […]

There’s been a lot of talk recently about new technology, especially regarding the new ‘open banking’ opportunities and how your private transactions will come under scrutiny by lenders decision making computers, after you’ve given permission of course! The idea is that the lender can review your incomes, outgoings and all other financial items just from delving […]

Market conditions continue to cause huge uncertainty and as such, we’ve seen some lenders pull out of the market until more stable conditions return and others completely stop lending.  The most recent being Tesco Bank.  They announced that hey have ceased all new mortgage lending and are actively looking to sell their existing mortgage portfolio, to concentrate […]

There have been a number of remortgage applications recently for those looking to raise funds to purchase other properties or to make improvements to their current homes.  Just around the local area, I have seen an amazing amount of building work and renovations / extensions being carried out.  Many home owners appear to be improving […]

There’s been a lot of hype around the rise of ‘Cryptocurrency’.  Specifically, relating to Bitcoin and other similar electronic currencies.  Currently they are not regulated and their price can fluctuate immensely day by day.  However, there have been a number of success stories and thus providing funds which could possibly be used as a deposit […]

Let’s not beat around the bush, it’s tough out there!  We have seen numerous local and national retail outlets and banks recently confirm they are to reduce their store or branch numbers as the ‘online versus shop front’ takes further casualties. In addition, the finance sector is also finding it tough.  Despite already losing some […]

With the first quarter of 2019 now over, we can safely say that the word to sum up these three months is uncertainty. Already we’ve seen three lenders stop lending or pull all of their products due to ‘costs of funding’ and ‘uncertain times ahead’.  This is all a bit ‘de ja vu’ compared to back […]

Last weekend, we exhibited at the Property Investor and Homebuyers show at the London ExCel.  It was a great opportunity to talk to professional landlords, as well as those looking to take their first steps onto the Buy to Let sector ladder. With many changes and increases in taxation on profits being recently introduced along […]

A large myth suggests that because you are self employed, you will find it harder to get a mortgage. Maybe that was so a few years ago, but not today. Yes, the financial crash took its toll on the self employed and quite rightly killed off the ‘self certification’ type deals (no proof of income).  […]

One of the most frequent questions to start a mortgage interview tends to be around ‘How much can I borrow?’.   Only a few years ago, that could easily have been up to 8 x income with the minimal of fuss.  Oh, how things have changed, and rightly so!  Those were times with little control and […]