Please Note: The information included within these pages is for for use by FCA authorised intermediaries only. If you are a customer please visit our customer web pages.
Please Note: The information included within these pages is for for use by FCA authorised intermediaries only. If you are a customer please visit our customer web pages.
Important Information: We are currently only accepting applications from intermediaries located within our branch operating area unless already registered. Click here for more information.
To register wit* us, your Intermediary firm must be located within our core operating area, however once on panel, the property and the customer can be located anywhere in the UK.
The registration process should be completed within 48 hours, so will not cause any delays to your enquiry. If you are an appointed representative of MAB or Sesame, as these networks are on our panel, you only need to complete the Intermediary registration document and we only need one registration document per firm not for each individual advisor.
Please complete as applicable: Mortgage Intermediary Registration Form and/or Mortgage Intermediary Agreement and email to intermediaries@cumberland.co.uk.
Each Procuration Fee is calculated as a percentage of the mortgage advance and is 0.40% for all New Borrowing and 0.20% for Existing Customer Product Transfers or Rate Switches. These are payable on completion and payments are processed weekly on a Wednesday.
We are currently accepting registration and residential applications from intermediaries located within our branch operating area but once on panel, the customer and the property can be located anywhere in the UK. . Postcodes included in our operating area include:
We currently have a customer affordability calculator on our website, which will provide a good indication of affordability but we are working hard to build a bespoke calculator for intermediary use.
You can also request a quick affordability check or a full Decision in Principle (DIP) directly from us, which we will provide on the same day in most cases. Please refer to the How To Guides for further information.
Please refer to our How To Guides section.
The maximum age at the end of the mortgage term is 85 years old if the mortgage is on a repayment basis, and 80 years old for interest only.
Our minimum loan amount is £20,000 for residential applications or £50,000 for our First Time Buyer exclusive products. The minimum term for a mortgage is 2 years.
Please refer to our Criteria Guide for full details but in summary:
If the term of the loan extends beyond the age of 70 years old for any applicant or their declared retirement age (whichever is soonest) then the loan would be treated as lending ‘into retirement’ and we could offer a maximum loan to value of 80% repayment, 75% Interest Only or 75% Part and Part (Interest only element capped at 50% for sale and downsize).
If there are ‘more than 10 years’ between the time of application and retirement age, we would need to evidence contributions to a pension plan, either from payslips or from the most recent pension statement and match this up to the contributions on the bank statement.
If there are ‘less than 10 years’ between the time of application and retirement age, we would need to obtain pension projections and complete an additional budget planner to evidence that the lending is affordable on pension income alone.
If any of the applicants are over the age of 70 years old or already retired, then the loan would be treated as ‘lending in retirement’ with maximum of 70% loan to value. Customers already in retirement are unable to use ‘sale and downsize’ as their repayment strategy.
Please refer to our Criteria Guide for full details but in summary:
We can lend on a full interest only basis up to 75%, subject to there being a suitable repayment vehicle in place to repay the borrowing at the end of the term. Please note that where ‘sale and downsize’ is the repayment vehicle, we have a maximum LTV of 60%, maximum loan amount of £2m and minimum equity buffer requirement depending on the location of the property:
Yes-subject to a review of the terms of the S106 (or equivalent) and only for properties located within our core operating area.
Up to 6 x sole/joint gross income where LTV <= 80%
Up to 6 x where sole/joint gross income is >=£40,000 and LTV >80%
Up to 4.49 x where sole/joint gross income is <£40,000 and LTV >80%
We consider most income types:
Please refer to our Criteria Guide to find details on the documents we require to evidence this income. If you have any income type not noted above, then please contact us and we can discuss whether we are able to include this as part of our assessments.
Yes - please refer to our Criteria Guidefor details on the information we need to evidence this income.
We offer a free valuation on all applications up to a loan amount of £750,000. If the loan amount required is in excess of this, please contact and we can advise what fee would be applicable.
We offer a free legal service via our nominated solicitor on loan amounts up to £750,000. If you are capital raising on a mortgage free property, we offer a £250 cashback contribution also on loans amounts up to £750,000.
However, please note we do not offer our free legal service if the remortgage also involves a transfer of equity.
Yes, we can offer interest only up to the relevant maximum (see Criteria Guide section 4.8) with the remainder on a capital and repayment basis up to a maximum of 75%. Where any element of the mortgage is on Interest Only basis, the Interest Only product would apply to the whole loan amount.
Yes, all our products allow overpayments of up to 10% of the balance of the loan per financial year without penalty during the initial fixed or variable product terms. Should the overpayment you make exceed this amount, then an early repayment charge (ERC) will be payable for the amount exceeding your allowance and the ERC percentage will vary depending on the product chosen.
Yes, please follow this link to see the product options for existing borrower rate switches.
Yes we do - please follow the links below to find out more.
Yes, if your customer moves home our products can be ported onto the new mortgage and any additional borrowing can be taken on a new rate. If your customers are borrowing less than their current mortgage, please contact us and we can advise if any early repayment charge would be payable and if so, how much that would be, as this would depend on the product terms.
We do not offer mortgage facilities for either of these mortgage types.
This is clarified within our lender/product notes within sourcing but relates to the fact that currently our residential mortgage products are only available to brokers located within our core operating area (link to map), however once on panel, the customer and the property can be located anywhere in the UK.
Please refer to our How To Guides section. You will also need to complete the registration form and agreement if you are not already on our broker panel.
You will find details of what documents you need to provide in our How To Guides, however should your enquiry have any areas which are unusual or more complex, please contact us to discuss this further. We will then provide guidance on what (if any) other documents we may require.
Yes, a client can choose their own solicitor to act, who would need to be on our approved panel. You can find our solicitor panel here.
Should the solicitor you wish to use not be on our panel, please contact us and we will advise whether they meet the criteria to be added. Please note that this can add a little extra time to the application process, as we cannot produce a mortgage offer until the solicitor is approved and on our panel.
If the solicitor doesn’t meet our criteria and therefore cannot be added to the panel, the applicants can either choose a solicitor who is on our panel or continue with separate representation where The Cumberland will instruct a solicitor to act on our behalf alongside the applicants solicitor. Please note that the applicants will be responsible for the full legal cost and as two firms are involved this will be more expensive.
Our mortgage offers are valid for 6 months but we can request an extension in certain circumstances, for example if the completion date on a new build property is delayed.
For any confidential client information, we have secure messaging, whereby you will receive a notification asking you to login in with your email address and password to access the documentation.