Published decisions
1,504
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Year + product analysis
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
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.
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.
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.
Representative cases
5 examples shown
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)
View source decisionDRN-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)
View source decisionDRN-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)
View source decisionDRN-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)
View source decisionDRN-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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