Equity release mortgages revisited

Equity release mortgages revisited

The equity release mortgage is becoming increasingly popular. It’s also playing a significant role in helping older people pay off debts and mortgages, with figures suggesting that equity release is seeing £10m ‘withdrawn’ from homes each day. Those reading this who...
Getting a mortgage if you’re divorced

Getting a mortgage if you’re divorced

Interestingly, there appears to a ‘content gap’ when it comes to advice on applying for a mortgage if you’re divorced. Strange, considering how research from the Office for National Statistics revealed how there were 90,871 divorces in 2018. Reassuringly, this was...
Cheap mortgages and flat property growth

Cheap mortgages and flat property growth

You’ll be pleased to know that despite the ominous title, this article is not a dreary take on the UK’s bleak property outlook. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. According to Nationwide, weak property price growth in 2019 coupled with rising wages and employment...
Reasons to use a mortgage broker

Reasons to use a mortgage broker

Is technology about to make the mortgage broker redundant? Will robots and AI replace the traditional role of your local mortgage adviser? The answer is ‘yes’, according to news reports from the start of the year, which claim how mortgage applications may be as simple...
Make peace not mortgage war

Make peace not mortgage war

Christmas is a time for family, forgiveness and festive cheer. It’s certainly not a time for war – or, at least, ‘mortgage wars’ – which is what’s being reported in one national newspaper (clue: the one that’s most likely to run a headline with the words...