Year + product analysis

Mortgages complaints in 2021

A curated public analysis of Mortgages in 2021, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.

Page summary

1,504 published FOS decisions in Mortgages during 2021, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Published decisions

1,504

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

25.1%

378 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 31 Dec 2021

Published decisions

1,504

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

25.1%

378 upheld decisions

Leading firm

Barclays Bank UK PLC

183 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Delay In Claim Handling

138 tagged decisions

Mortgages in 2021

1,504 published decisions in the corpus sit in Mortgages for 2021. 25.1% of those decisions were upheld, which makes this a strong public cross-section for understanding how one product behaved in one specific year.

Barclays Bank UK PLC is the most visible firm inside this year-product slice, with 183 published decisions.

  • 2021: 1,504 decisions, 25.1% upheld
  • Leading complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling
  • Leading precedent signal: Consumer Credit Act 1974

Firm concentration and issue profile

Barclays Bank UK PLC, Bank of Scotland Plc, Santander UK Plc, and others are the firms most often associated with Mortgages complaints in 2021. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.

delay in claim handling, affordability assessment failure, fraud or scam concern, and others are the strongest complaint-theme signals in this year-product combination.

  • Barclays Bank UK PLC: 183 decisions, 35.5% upheld
  • Bank of Scotland Plc: 166 decisions, 23.5% upheld
  • Santander UK Plc: 133 decisions, 24.8% upheld
  • National Westminster Bank Plc: 87 decisions, 20.7% upheld
  • Nationwide Building Society: 83 decisions, 15.7% upheld

Handling implications and precedent context

The advisory layer for Mortgages points to recurring handling implications here, including review disp precedent (appears in 0.1% of cases), review consumer credit act 1974 precedent (appears in 0.1% of cases), review fsma precedent (appears in 0.1% of cases), and others.

There is no strong “what loses” signal exposed for this product at the current advisory granularity.

  • Leading complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling

Representative cases

Recent published decisions in this slice

5 examples shown

DRN-304443131 Dec 2021Upheld

Leeds Building Society · Mortgages

DRN-3044431 The complaint Mr and Mrs R complain that Leeds Building Society unfairly refused them a mortgage and caused unreasonable delays in the application process. What happened Mr and Mrs R owned property in London but then applied to buy a property in the North West in March 2020. Th... (2 pages)

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DRN-288336630 Dec 2021Upheld

Nationwide Building Society · Mortgages

DRN-2883366 The complaint Mr and Mrs M have complained about the service they received from Nationwide Building Society when they wanted to arrange a mortgage to buy a new property. What happened The details of this complaint are well known to both parties, so I will not repeat them again... (3 pages)

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DRN-292998530 Dec 2021Upheld

The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc · Mortgages

DRN-2929985 The complaint Miss J says she only repaid her The One Account with The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc by selling her property in 2014 due to conversations she’d had with the bank. She said she couldn’t meet the facility reductions that RBS was asking for so she sold the house, rede... (3 pages)

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DRN-308583330 Dec 2021Not upheld

Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited · Mortgages

DRN-3085833 The complaint The executor of the estate of the late Mr D has complained that a lifetime mortgage that Mr D took out with Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited was mis-sold. The complaint has been dealt with throughout by Mr P who is a mortgage adviser acting on behalf of the ex... (7 pages)

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DRN-319395630 Dec 2021Not upheld

National Westminster Bank Plc · Mortgages

DRN-3193956 The complaint Mrs T complained that National Westminster Bank Plc declined her application to port her mortgage she held jointly with her ex-husband to a new property. She said she had to get a new mortgage with a different lender and incurred an early repayment charge (ERC) wi... (2 pages)

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