These are some of the top 10 mortgage bank and building society lenders in the UK
1. Halifax Building Society (21%)
- Offers a range of mortgage products from repayment to interest only
- Halifax has merged with Bank of Scotland to form HBOS.
- HBOS controversially taken over by Lloyds TSB in Jan 2009 becoming part of Lloyds Banking group. The combined bank will have a dominant market position and was only allowed due to governments reluctance to nationalise another bank.
- Buy to Let mortgage available through subsidiary: Birmingham Midshires
- Offset Mortgages available through: Intelligent Finance
- Halifax Mortgagesat Halifax.co.uk
2. Abbey National 28%
- Owned by Spanish division – Santander, Abbey has been the fastest growing mortgage lender in the credit crunch. By 2008, it had increased its market share from 8% (2004) to 28%
- Includes flexible mortgages
3. Nationwide (20%)
- In Terms of Market share, Nationwide are probably the second largest mortgage lender in the UK
- Mortgages at the Nationwide
4. Northern Rock (15%)
- Recently hit by problems in the money market, northern Rock were one of the biggest 5 mortgage lenders, but since nationalisation have been struggling to improve their finances.
5. Woolwich Building Society (11%)
- Now owned by Barclays bank (since 2000). The Woolwich is one of the biggest mortgage lenders in the UK. Barclays concentrates on banking and loans, Woolwich on mortgages
- Can combine savings and mortgage in offset mortgage
- Woolwich Mortgages at Woolwich.co.uk
6. Bradford and Bingley (8%)
Specialists in buy to let mortgage. But since credit crunch, mortgage book has been nationalised
7. HSBC
- The World’s Local Bank
- Mortgages include fixed rate, Discount and Tracker
- HSBC Mortgages
8. Royal Bank of Scotland
9. Lloyds TSB
- Work in partnership with Cheltenham & Gloucester (C&G) -part of the Lloyds TSB Group.
- Lloyds TSB Mortgages
10. Alliance & Leicester
- Premier mortgage deals for existing and new customers
- Abbey National Mortgages
Other Significant Mortgage Lenders
Yorkshire Building Society
- Mortgage Magazine "lender of the Year" 2005-2006
- Yorkshire building society mortgages
Chelsea Building Society
Includes "helping hand" mortgage for those struggling to be able to get first time house
Co – operative Bank
- The ethical financial body
- For each mortgage, contribution made to charity climate aware
- Co operative Bank Mortgages