Are you one of the 370,000?

Are you one of the 370,000?

We’re not shy when it comes to talking about the benefits of remortgaging – and for good reason, too. A recent story in The Intermediary, a mortgage industry title, reported that a staggering 370,000 mortgaged homeowners on variable rate mortgages are not switching to...
Up we go … again

Up we go … again

It feels as though we’ve been publishing a few of these interest rate rise articles of late. And that’s because we have. Six, in fact. Yesterday, the Bank of England (BoE) hiked up the base rate a significant 0.50% – the biggest increase since 1995 and the sixth since...
The benefits of using a mortgage broker

The benefits of using a mortgage broker

Following on from our last mortgage advice article, which covered why now’s a good time to use a mortgage broker against the backdrop of rising interest rates and growing inflation, we thought that it might be worth outlining some of the more explicit benefits of...
The hunt for the best mortgage deal is on

The hunt for the best mortgage deal is on

Well, it should be – especially if you’re a homeowner that’s about to revert to the standard variable rate mortgage (SVR). Mortgages are a bit like birthdays in as much as everyone’s start dates are different and spread across the 365 days of the year. Therefore, just...
Beware the SVR mortgage trap

Beware the SVR mortgage trap

This definitely sounds more sinister than it really is, however the standard variable rate (SVR) mortgage trap surprisingly affects a high number of people every year. It’s a bit like household energy deals or ISAs: you are drawn in by the competitive rates, be they...