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Our 80% residential mortgage products are back
We have made further improvements to our product range as part of our commitment to support borrowers seeking to remortgage or purchase their home.
Released: 10th July 2020
Competitive Buy to Let product range
We are always looking to improve our mortgage products and proposition to support borrowers that are buying a property to let.
Released: 3rd July 2020
Supporting self-employed clients
In the current climate, we are continuing to review our underwriting approach across all areas.
Released: 18th June 2020
Exclusive deals for product transfers up to 95% LTV
Now more than ever before, product transfers play an important part in building long-lasting relationships with your clients.
Released: 16th June 2020
What Mortgage Awards 2020 – Your Vote Counts
We are delighted to once again be shortlisted in the What Mortgage Awards.
Released: 4th June 2020
Launch of Competitive Interest Only Products
We've recently launched a revised range of Interest Only products which include the following key features and benefits.
Released: 29th May 2020
Further support for remortgaging clients
Remortgage completions continue to increase into May as borrowers search for competitive, cheaper deals on their existing mortgage and are taking advantage of historically low rates.
Released: 22nd May 2020
Update on instructing physical valuations
In conjunction with our property risk partner and valuation panel manager, e.surv, we are pleased to announce that we have resumed physical valuations from Thursday 21st May.
Released: 22nd May 2020
Supporting your re-mortgage business
Whilst the house purchase market has paused for several weeks whilst we've awaited the return of physical valuations, interest in re-mortgaging has been largely unaffected with lenders utilising AVM and Remote Valuations to ensure customers can switch providers without delays.
Released: 15th May 2020
A Buy to Let proposition worth shouting about
We are always looking to improve our mortgage products and proposition to support borrowers that are buying a property to let.
Released: 5th May 2020
Is your client re-mortgaging?
The house purchase market has paused whilst the country responds to the challenges presented by Covid-19, preventing buyers and sellers from viewing properties.
Released: 14th April 2020
A further update regarding Coronavirus (COVID-19)
As the COVID-19 situation continues to develop, we want to re-assure you that we remain committed to support you and your clients over the coming weeks and months.
Released: 14th April 2020
Important information relating to instructing valuations
Following the Government's recent announcements, we have been advised by our valuation partners of the need to suspend surveyors undertaking internal property inspections with immediate effect.
Released: 26th March 2020
Important update regarding Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The health and wellbeing of our customers and colleagues is extremely important to us.
Released: 20th March 2020
Refreshed rates on buy to let
We have significantly reduced rates on our fee assisted buy to let products, whilst also extending the end dates to 31st July of the respective year.
Released: 20th February 2020
Is your client self-employed?
Over the last 20 years the number of self-employed workers has risen from 3.3 million to 4.8 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Released: 14th February 2020
Grow your mortgage retention business
We have refreshed our existing customer product transfer proposition and continue to offer preferential rates for existing customers looking for a new deal.
Released: 11th February 2020
We're committed to helping first time buyers
We value feedback from our Intermediary partners to help design competitive products and criteria that works for everyone.
Released: 3rd February 2020
Refreshed end dates on buy to let
We have refreshed our entire buy to let portfolio, extending end dates until 30th June of the respective year on all products.
Released: 27th January 2020
We've extended end dates on our 95% LTV products
To support every generation in buying their own home, we've extended the end dates on our entire 95% LTV portfolio from February to June of the respective year.
Released: 16th January 2020
We're committed to helping first time buyers
We always listen to feedback from our intermediary partners, at the same time as designing competitive products and criteria to support your clients.
Released: 20th December 2019
Grow your mortgage retention business
We have refreshed our existing customer product transfer proposition and continue to offer preferential rates for existing customers looking for a new deal.
Released: 13th December 2019
Launch of exclusive mortgage products
We have launched a new range of mortgage products that are exclusively available to our Lifetime ISA (LISA) first time buyer customers.
Released: 6th December 2019
Reductions of 0.20% for buy to let
As part of our focus to continue developing our proposition and growth in the buy to let market, we have reduced rates on our five year products by up to 0.20%.
Released: 3rd December 2019
Soft Credit Footprint Now Available
Great news - we have introduced soft credit footprint functionality for all new prime residential and buy to let mortgages.
Released: 25th November 2019
Buy to let proposition refresh
Following the recent refresh of our buy to let mortgage proposition to reduce rates by up to 0.16%, we are now extending the end dates on these portfolios.
Released: 18th November 2019
Buy to let proposition refresh
With the number of landlords expanding their portfolios on the up, we are refreshing our buy to let mortgage proposition to reduce rates by up to 0.16%.
Released: 1st November 2019
Grow your mortgage retention business
We recently refreshed our existing customer product transfer proposition, reducing rates on our 5 year fixed products up to 80% LTV.
Released: 11th October 2019
Helping every generation buy their own home
We are always looking to improve our mortgage products and create competitive propositions to support the new build and help to buy market.
Released: 07th October 2019
Fee assisted buy to let products
At a time when re-mortgage applications are dominating the buy to let market, we are refreshing our buy to let mortgage product range to include a range of fee assisted products.
Released: 16th September 2019
Our growing Business Development team
We are delighted to announce that Mark Wilkinson, Jamie Cullen and Kam Gill have joined Newcastle Building Society as Regional Business Development Managers.
Released: 06th September 2019
Exclusive Deals for Product Transfer
Did you know that we launched a Product Transfer service for our Intermediary partners paying a procuration fee of 0.20%?
Released: 30th August 2019
Help to Buy Mortgage Range Refresh
We are refreshing our range of help to buy mortgage products, including a range of products to support customer staircasing up to 95% LTV.
Released: 22nd August 2019
Half year results worth shouting about
We recently announced our half year financial results, which showed record growth in our mortgage lending of £380m, an increase of 65% compared to same period last year.
Released: 19th August 2019
10 Year Fixed Rate Mortgages
With the growing popularity of 10-year fixed deals, we have launched two competitive 10 year fixed rate mortgages with early repayment charges of 5% for the first five years only.
Released: 16th August 2019
A New Build and Help to Buy proposition worth shouting about
We are always looking to improve our mortgage products and create competitive propositions to support the New Build market.
Released: 8th August 2019
Highly competitive 95% mortgage products
Following the success of our competitive range of 95% LTV products, we are extending the availability of selected products and launching a new five year deal.
Released: 2nd August 2019
A Buy-to-Let proposition worth shouting about
We are always looking to improve our mortgage products and proposition to support borrowers that are buying a property to let.
Released: 29th July 2019
It's a hat-trick! Best Regional Building Society 2019
As the region's biggest building society, we are proud to once again win the award for 'Best Regional Building Society' at this year's What Mortgage Awards.
Released: 19th July 2019
Meet the Team: New Business Development Managers
We are delighted to announce that Stephen Breen and Rebecca Roberts have joined Newcastle Building Society as Regional Business Development Managers.
Released: 11th July 2019
New Online Broker Product Transfer Tool
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new online tool for brokers, enabling easy product transfers for your client's upon maturity.
Released: 28th June 2019
Awarded 'Best Smaller Lender' for second year in a row
We are delighted to be awarded with Best Smaller Lender at the Legal and General Mortgage Club Awards for the second year in a row.
Released: 24th June 2019
Buy-to-Let Product Expansion into Scotland
Following the success of our Buy-to-Let products in England and Wales, we are delighted to announce we have extended our distribution into Scotland.
Released: 20th June 2019
5 year 95% LTV rate reductions
Newcastle Intermediaries is reducing rates on its competitive five year 95% LTV mortgages by up to 0.16%.
Released: 10th June 2019
Procuration fees for growing your mortgage retention business
This year, we launched a new product transfer process which pays brokers a procuration fee of 0.20% for switching an existing borrower to a new rate.
Released: 31st May 2019
A Buy-to-Let Proposition worth Shouting About
We are always looking to improve our mortgage products and create competitive propositions to support borrowers that are buying a property to let.
Released: 22nd May 2019
Expansion of Our Self Build Proposition with Accelerate Products
We are expanding our Self Build proposition by introducing advanced payment products exclusively available through Build Store and its intermediary arm, Build Loan.
Released: 20th May 2019
Top Application Tips from Our Business Development Managers
We know that time is precious and we want to ensure the best possible experience for you and your clients. With this in mind, our Business Development Managers have put together some top tips for a successful application, to help make your application process as simple and speedy as possible.
Released: 15th May 2019
Rate reductions across our Joint Mortgage Sole Proprietor proposition up to 95% LTV
With many brokers reporting a significant increase in enquiries for Joint Mortgage Sole Proprietor (JMSP) products in recent months, we have
significantly reduced our rates
across this range to make it even easier for borrowers to own their own home.
Released: 3rd May 2019
Let's make it a hat-trick!
As the region's biggest building society and the ninth largest in the UK, we are proud to once again be nominated as the 'Best Regional Building Society' at this year's What Mortgage Awards.
Released: 29th April 2019
Procuration Fees for Mortgage Retention
In January, we launched a new process to allow brokers to arrange a product transfer from an existing deal to a new deal with us. With this introduction, all registered brokers can now receive a retention procuration fee of 0.20% for switching an existing borrower to a new rate.
Released: 17th April 2019
Help to Buy Rate Refresh and Offer Validity Period Increase
We have refreshed our Help to Buy mortgage rates. This refresh coincides with further enhancements we have recently made to improve our New Build proposition by extending our offer validity period from 6 months to 9 months.
Released: 8th April 2019
95% LTV mortgage range reductions by up to 0.27%
We have reduced our rates on the 95% LTV range by up to 0.27%. We are always looking to improve our mortgage products and this creates a very competitive range to further support first time buyers.
Released: 3rd April 2019
Newcastle Intermediaries to launch product transfer proposition
Newcastle Intermediaries will launch a product transfer process paying brokers a proc fee of 0.20%.
Released: 21st January 2019
95% LTV mortgage range reductions
Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced its rates on a number of two and five year deals available up to a max LTV of 95%.
Released: 19th November 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries has a number of Help to Buy options as interest free equity loan periods come to an end
With the first Help to Buy equity loans approaching the end of their interest free period some borrowers will need to start paying interest on their loans and may wish to consider their options.
Released: 6th November 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries extends Interest Only mortgage provision.
Newcastle Intermediaries is extending its Interest Only offer to its range of residential mortgages, including self employed options.
Released: 24th October 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries is announcing reductions in its buy-to-let rates.
Newcastle Intermediaries has announced it is reducing its buy-to-let rates by up to 0.64% across its full range.
Released: 25th September 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries now offers a large loan option with no early repayment charge.
Following recent expansion of its large loan proposition and rate reductions, Newcastle Intermediaries has now introduced a variable rate large loan product which comes with no early repayment charge.
Released: 13th September 2018
Joint mortgage sole proprietor range introduced by Newcastle.
Newcastle intermediaries is strengthening its mortgage portfolio with the introduction of a range of intergenerational joint mortgage sole proprietor products, available for those from 18 to 80 years of age.
Released: 30th August 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates across all of its large loan products.
Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates across all of its large loan products, cutting some by up to 0.48%.
Released: 01st August 2018
Newcastle Building Society scoops UK's Best Regional Building Society for the second year in a row
The North East's largest building society has been named the UK's "Best Regional Building Society" at the national What Mortgage awards for the second year in a row.
Released: 19th July 2018
We must help clients re-mortgage their Help to Buy deals.
It appears, with a rate rise anticipated in August by many analysts, that this is year that Carney is expecting the British economy to be strong enough to weather another interest rate rise.
Released: 11th July 2018
Self employed? No problem.
The plight of the self-employed in securing a mortgage has been in the headlines a lot over the past month after Lynda Blackwell, a former chief of the regulator, disclosed her struggles in securing a mortgage.
Released: 11th July 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries is reducing rates on a number of its residential mortgages by up to 0.20%.
Available both to key accounts and directly, the lender is launching a competitive 2.44% three year fixed rate at a max LTV of 80%.
Released: 5th June 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries introducing large loan range to core offering
Newcastle Intermediaries has announced its large loan range is to become part of their core offering.
Released: 04th June 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries has refreshed a number of fee assisted two year fixed rate deals.
Newcastle Intermediaries has refreshed a number of fee assisted two year fixed rate deals, some available at maximum LTV of 95%.
Released: 15th May 2018
Legal & General Mortgage Club strengthens partnership
Legal & General Mortgage Club has today announced an expansion of its large loan offering for members in an exclusive deal with Newcastle Intermediaries.
Released: 1st May 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries has introduced £1,000 cashback to 95% range.
Newcastle Intermediaries is introducing a 95% LTV mortgage with £1,000 cashback, available to first time buyers, home movers, re-mortgagers and Help to Buy customers.
Released: 26th April 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries has introduced Help to Buy and Buy to Let products for self-employed clients.
Newcastle intermediaries has extended its self employed product range designed to help clients who are newly self- employed to include both Help to Buy and Buy to Let.
Released: 3rd April 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries Refreshes its Range of 95% LTV Mortgages
Newcastle Intermediaries has refreshed its range of 95% LTV mortgages with rate reductions on its two year deals..
Released: 13th March 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries Announce Reduced Buy to Let Rates
Newcastle Intermediaries has announced it is reducing all its buy to let rates by up to 0.10%.
Released: 8th March 2018
Paradigm add Newcastle Intermediares to lender panel
Paradigm Mortgage Services, the mortgage services proposition, has added Newcastle Intermediaries to its mortgage lender panel.
Released: 1st March 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries added to Personal Touch Financial Solutions lending panel
Newcastle Intermediaries is joining the lending panel at Personal Touch Financial Solutions.
Released: 19th February 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries launches competitive self-employed mortgage product
Newcastle Intermediaries has provided more support to self-employed house purchasers with the launch of another highly competitive Self Employed mortgage exclusive.
Released: 24th January 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries Refreshes First Time Buyer Range
To kick start 2018 Newcastle Intermediaries has refreshed its range of mortgage products with a focus on first time buyers.
Released: 9th January 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries Offers Free Legals for First Time Buyers
Newcastle Intermediaries has responded to this week's budget announcement with a range of 95% Loan to Value (LTV) products with free legal fees designed for first time buyers.
Released: 27th November 2017
Join us at this year's Mortgage & Protection Events
Meet your local Business Development Manager at this year's Mortgage and Protection Events at the following locations.
Released: 28th September 2017
Societies can help develop Northern Powerhouse
What has happened to the Northern Powerhouse? The brainchild of former Chancellor George Osborne, the drive to support business growth and increased productivity in the North of England has gone rather quiet since the general election back in June.
Released: 25th August 2017
Newcastle Building Society Shortlisted in Built It Awards
Further to receiving the What Mortgage award for 'Best Regional Building Society' we are delighted to announce our streak of successes is continuing as Newcastle Building Society has been shortlisted in this year's Build It Awards for 'Best Self Build Lender'.
Released: 25th August 2017
Why bigger properties can be just as beautiful
The thing about money is, the more you have, the more complex an array of things you can do with it. Not only that but there is an increasing likelihood that the more money you have, the more complex your affairs become.
Released: 28th July 2017
Newcastle Building Society Half Year Results 2017
Newcastle Building Society reports positive results for the first six months of 2017 with increases in operating profit and profit before tax and significant growth in savings and mortgage lending.
Released: 27th July 2017
Newcastle Building Society Named Best Regional Building Society At Prestigious 'What Mortgage' Awards
We are delighted to announce Newcastle Building Society has beaten off stiff competition from around the country to be named as the UK's best regional building society.
Released: 26th July 2017
Change to Buy to Let Minimum Income Requirements
To further support our Buy to Let applicants we have made a positive change to our lending criteria.
Released: 1st July 2017
We now accept Help to Buy: Equity Loan Cash Based Incentives
At Newcastle Intermediaries we have revised our Help to Buy: Equity Loan lending criteria and are pleased to now accept cash based incentives up to the value of 5% (builders' deposits/stamp duty/legal fees). This is in addition to our previous policy of accepting all non cash based incentives.
Released: 1st July 2017
North East Mortgage Exclusives
As the largest Building Society in the North East we are committed to helping local people take their first step on the property ladder, support them in moving home or simply save money by remortgaging.
Released: 13th June 2017
Brokers Role in Building More Homes
Boosting the supply of new homes is critical, and has finally been recognised by the country's leaders. In the run up to the election, every party leader threw out huge numbers in a bid to win the trust of British voters, many of whose personal wealth relies so heavily on home ownership today.
Released: 1st July 2017
Conveyancing Update Improvements
At Newcastle Intermediaries we are pleased to assist your clients with their legal fees on several of our Residential and Buy to Let mortgage products.
Released: 1st July 2017
Financial Adviser Service Awards
At Newcastle Intermediaries we pride ourselves on service and value broker feedback in order to improve our proposition.
Released: 1st July 2017
Newcastle Intermediaries Launches Best Buy Mortgage Products
We are pleased to announce the launch of a competitive range of mortgages for the 80% loan to value (LTV) marketplace, including a number of Best Buy offers.
Released: 1st June 2017
We need a swift and decisive commitment to housing
One issue that seemingly never goes away for any government is the lack of affordable and available housing in the UK.
Released: 1st June 2017
Newcastle Intermediaries increases buy-to-let overpayments
Newcastle Intermediaries has increased the level of overpayments allowed without penalty across its entire Buy-to-let range.
Released: 13th April 2017
Buy-to-let market this year will be focused on remortgage
Last month's Budget caused uproar across the nation after Chancellor Philip Hammond revealed plans to hike the amount of national insurance paid by the self-employed. Just a week later, and such was the backlash, he abandoned the policy proposal completely. Leaving to one side the merits of hiking this tax or not, it is interesting that Hammond bowed to pressure from this sector of society - dubbed Britain's entrepreneurs.
Released: 13th April 2017
Help Is Still at Hand for First Time Buyers
Help to Buy has been a catch-all brand for the Government's various schemes brought in since 2012 in a bid to support homeownership in the UK.
Released: 21st March 2017
Understanding Clients Is What Brokers Do Best
Mass home ownership is still a rather recent development, and so is applying for a mortgage. It was not until 1983 that Margaret Thatcher introduced Mortgage...
Released: 10th March 2017
Newcastle Building Society 2016 Year End Figures & Review
At the start of 2016 Newcastle Building Society announced the start of an ambitious £10m investment programme to deliver enhancements to its customer service across branch,...
Released: 3rd March 2017
What Mortgage Awards
If you have received a positive service from Newcastle Intermediaries we would appreciate it if you could take the time to nominate us in the 'What Mortgage Awards 2017' for Best Regional Building Society.
Released: 15th February 2017
Newcastle Launch Unique Help To Buy Product
Following entry into the Help to Buy market in December, we have has refreshed our range, including the introduction of two new All in One products.
Released: 8th February 2017
2017 Forecasts - The Year Ahead
Steve Carruthers, Head of Mortgage Distribution at Newcastle Intermediaries looks to the year ahead in Mortgage Finance Gazette.
Released: 8th February 2017
White paper must be filled in.
Tinkering with the housing market seems to have been flavour of the year for 2016.
Released: 8th February 2017
Newcastle Intermediaries Expands Product Range
Newcastle Intermediaries has launched a comprehensive range of mortgage products, adding 10 new deals to its existing offering.
Released: 24th January 2017
Newcastle Intermediaries grows BDM team
Newcastle Intermediaries has appointed three new Business Development Managers to support its growing mortgage business across the UK.
Released: 9th January 2017
2016 Round-up & Christmas Opening Times
2016 has been an extremely busy year for Newcastle Intermediaries, with an expanding sales team, enhanced service and competitive product launches being some of the key highlights.
Released: 19th December 2016
Why face-to-face advice will always have its place
The role of the mortgage intermediary has rarely been out of the spotlight. From its birth in the early 1980s, when banks unleashed new and numerous products, and the new centralised lenders arrived focusing on niche customer segments such as the self-employed, mortgage brokers have gone on to establish themselves as the main distribution channel for nonstandard mortgage customers.
Released: 16th December 2016
Social Mobility and the role of the mortgage broker
We live in uncertain, volatile times and the need for robust, sage advice has never been greater. 'Social mobility', that 'cause celèbre' of past Conservative governments has once again come to the fore.
Released: 16th December 2016
Smaller but beautifully formed
With so many niche mortgage markets requiring significantly more expertise, effort and time than run-of-the-mill vanilla lending, it is easy to see why some smaller lenders are making steady inroads into areas that offer the possibility of more margin for those that can, for example, manually underwrite when the occasion merits it.
Released: 16th December 2016
Self-employed lending shouldn't be hard work
According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of UK citizens who are self-employed is at its highest level in 40 years.
Released: 16th December 2016
Servicing the Self Employed
Since the financial crisis the numbers of people working as self-employed have swollen with 800,000 joining their ranks in the past seven years. This accounts for nearly half of the total increase in employment in the UK and is part of a structural shift since the recession of 2000.
Released: 16th December 2016
Helping First Time Buyers
First-time Buyers have accounted for twenty-five per cent of our mortgage business this year at the Newcastle Building Society and there is a lot for First-time Buyers to be optimistic about.
Released: 16th December 2016
Avoiding a bit of a fix
While the housing market seeks to return to some kind of normality in the weeks following the EU referendum and holiday season, new interesting considerations are now informing our judgments on our home financing options.
Released: 16th December 2016
Advice needs to reflect the importance of people's homes in financial planning
It seems a strange situation that Britain has got itself into. Rather than a property being a roof over our heads and a pension being a pot of savings we invest to grow so we have an income after we retire, there is increasingly a blurring of lines.
Released: 16th December 2016
Criteria Update: Increased Maximum Age for Residential Mortgages
As Newcastle Intermediaries strives to continually build and evolve our mortgage offering to suit broker and client requirements we have reviewed the maximum age in our residential lending policy.
Released: 23rd November 2016
Mortgage Strategy Awards 2017
At Newcastle Intermediaries we constantly strive to improve our offering to our customers.
Released: 20th October 2016
Changes to Buy to Let Lending Policy
At Newcastle Intermediaries we have recently made some changes to our Buy to Let lending policy.
Released: 18th October 2016
The challenges when assessing the self employed
Head of Mortgage Distribution at Newcastle Intermediaries recently discussed with Mortgage Introducer the challenges faced when assessing the self employed and how imperative it is to consider everyone's individual circumstances.
Released: 8th September 2016
Newcastle Intermediaries Shortlisted for Build it Awards
Newcastle Intermediaries are delighted to be shortlisted for the Build It Awards in the 'Best Self Build Lender' category.
Released: 8th September 2016
Newcastle Intermediaries improves its identification & verification process
We are continually reviewing our process to ensure that we provide the best level of service for both you and your client.
Released: 6th September 2016
Newcastle Intermediaries Launches Revised Range of Competitive Self Employed Mortgages
Newcastle Intermediaries has revised range of mortgages available exclusively for self employed borrowers who have been trading for two years and under.
Released: 5th September 2016
First Time Buyers Need Advice Now More Than Ever
In July's Mortgage Introducer, Newcastle Intermediaries' Head of Mortgage Distribution, Steve Carruthers, discusses how now, more than ever, first time buyers should seek advice before attempting to make their first step on the property ladder.
Released: 25th July 2016
