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Mortgage Strategy’s Top 10 Stories: 02 Feb to 06 Feb
06 Feb 2026 16:55 GMT
… on Whistletree mortgages acquired from Northern Rock in 2016.
Around 400 … to acquire Simply Lending Solutions, both specialist mortgage advisers focused on … a 98% loan-to-value five-year fixed mortgage for … become less confident about Bank of England base rate …
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Court of Appeal confirms an incoming mortgage lender can maintain prevailing SVR, and clarifies the limits of the unfair relationships regime
03 Feb 2026 23:58 GMT
… all took out mortgage products with Northern Rock, prior to that bank';s well … an unsecured loan. After a period of UK government ownership, their lending was … has operated those mortgages (and loans) as lender since that date under its …
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Leeds appoints Hartwell as BDM to strengthen mortgage distribution team
03 Feb 2026 15:24 GMT
… National Account Manager roles at Northern Rock, Nationwide, TML, Vida, and Foundation … on hand to support the lender’s intermediary partners across Bath …
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‘Mortgage prisoners’ lose Court of Appeal challenge against TSB
03 Feb 2026 15:24 GMT
… brought by ‘mortgage prisoners’ against TSB Bank worth £800m … granted.
Around 400 former Northern Rock claimants argued they became … its agreement with these mortgage holders.
Commenting on the … Whistletree or closed their mortgage with Whistletree. TSB states …
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No release for TSB mortgage prisoners
02 Feb 2026 12:57 GMT
… holding that the lender did not breach borrowers’ mortgage contracts by charging … out Northern Rock’s ‘Together’ products, combining a mortgage with a linked unsecured loan … and others (appellants) v TSB Bank (respondent), the appellants were represented …
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Day in the Life of… Rob Oliver, distribution director at Dudley Building Society
05 Feb 2026 11:19 GMT
… to discuss trading performance and mortgage credit issues. I manage … the whole mortgage journey from enquiry to completion … at several lenders, from 6,000 colleagues at Northern Rock to 145 … it.
I manage the mortgage journey from enquiry to completion …
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‘We had a Northern Rock mortgage – 20 years on, we’re in a caravan’
16 Nov 2025 09:44 GMT
… ,000 interest-only mortgage with Northern Rock. Northern Rock then ran into … mortgage prisoners. Like thousands of other mortgage customers who took out loans with Northern Rock … – or other lenders …
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Metro Bank is thriving since I saved it from the doghouse
13 Dec 2025 13:09 GMT
… Royal Bank of Scotland (now NatWest), Northern Rock and a bank in … loans being rated as less risky than they really were.
• Metro Bank … his aspirations for Metro Bank: lending to small businesses … moved to the nationalised Northern Rock, another crisis victim, …
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Peter Mandelson betrayed his country
04 Feb 2026 11:35 GMT
… banks.’
Ah, yes, the banks.
Darling was delayed because the bankers … American bankers who were engaged in insane trades in mortgage … of those same American bankers seeking to escape planned … and Northern Rock, and the London managers of the US banks to …
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A brief history of trust, written in rules
04 Feb 2026 09:03 GMT
… banking rather than through product innovation.
Banking became utility-like: deposits, payments, loans … led by secondary banks: property-focused lenders funded heavily through … Victorian times.
Customers of Northern Rock queue outside the Kingston branch …