Year + product analysis

Mortgages complaints in 2025

A curated public analysis of Mortgages in 2025, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.

Page summary

1,203 published FOS decisions in Mortgages during 2025, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Published decisions

1,203

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

32.4%

390 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 30 Dec 2025

Published decisions

1,203

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

32.4%

390 upheld decisions

Leading firm

Bank of Scotland Plc

148 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Delay In Claim Handling

108 tagged decisions

Mortgages in 2025

1,203 published decisions in the corpus sit in Mortgages for 2025. 32.4% of those decisions were upheld, which makes this a strong public cross-section for understanding how one product behaved in one specific year.

Bank of Scotland Plc is the most visible firm inside this year-product slice, with 148 published decisions.

  • 2025: 1,203 decisions, 32.4% upheld
  • Leading complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling
  • Leading precedent signal: Disp

Firm concentration and issue profile

Bank of Scotland Plc, Santander UK Plc, Barclays Bank UK PLC, and others are the firms most often associated with Mortgages complaints in 2025. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.

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

  • Bank of Scotland Plc: 148 decisions, 23.6% upheld
  • Santander UK Plc: 122 decisions, 39.3% upheld
  • Barclays Bank UK PLC: 116 decisions, 31.9% upheld
  • Nationwide Building Society: 66 decisions, 24.2% upheld
  • Topaz Finance Limited: 52 decisions, 36.5% 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-597676230 Dec 2025Not upheld

Santander UK Plc · Mortgages

DRN-5976762 The complaint Mr S complains that he was refused a Buy To Let mortgage for a rental property he owns, by Santander UK Plc. Mr S said he knew that his ex-wife’s circumstances were identical, but she’d been able to remortgage with Santander, so he didn’t think that was fair. W... (3 pages)

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DRN-600212030 Dec 2025Upheld

TSB Bank plc · Mortgages

DRN-6002120 The complaint Mr and Mrs B complain that the end of their fixed interest rate deal with TSB Bank plc was followed immediately by a non-working day. They said it was wrong for TSB to force customers to pay its Standard Variable Rate. They wanted a refund of interest they’d pa... (3 pages)

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DRN-600449530 Dec 2025Not upheld

Barclays Bank UK PLC · Mortgages

DRN-6004495 The complaint Mr H complains that Barclays Bank UK PLC unfairly added fees and charges to his mortgage when payments were missed. Mr H said he now faces legal action by Barclays, seeking to recover the balance of a mortgage which fell due in 2016. What happened Mr H has prev... (2 pages)

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DRN-597985629 Dec 2025Not upheld

THE CO-OPERATIVE BANK P.L.C. · Mortgages

DRN-5979856 The complaint Mr and Mrs M complain that The Co-operative Bank PLC misled them and caused delays before unfairly declining their request for additional mortgage borrowing. Mr M asks that The Co-op compensates them for the cost of repaying unsecured loans early and pays compe... (4 pages)

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DRN-602301029 Dec 2025Not upheld

Lloyds Bank PLC · Mortgages

DRN-6023010 The complaint Mr R complains that Lloyds Bank PLC treated him unfairly after the term of his interest only mortgage expired with an unpaid balance. Mr R would like Lloyds to give him more time to sell the property or remortgage. A family member, who I’ll refer to as Mrs R, h... (4 pages)

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