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Rooftop Mortgages Limited publishes a Treating Customers Fairly statement on its website. It sets out commitments about how the business says it will deal with customers, including a statement about the basis on which fees are charged.
Rooftop Mortgages Limited publishes a complaints procedure and a separate complaints leaflet. Both apply to residential and buy-to-let accounts; no separate procedure for either mortgage type is published. They record the timescales the business says it works to, including a three-day resolution route and an eight-week final response deadline.
The Rooftop Mortgages website publishes a section for customers in financial difficulty. It describes the questions staff will ask, states that assistance will be tailored, and lists forms of assistance including reduced payments — which the page says can include paying nothing for a period — and consent to let on residential mortgages.
Rooftop Mortgages Limited is registered at Companies House under company number 04621865. It was incorporated on 19 December 2002, its registered office is in Ipswich and its status is active. The register of persons with significant control records BCM Asset Services (Holdings) Limited (company number 05505964) as an active person with significant control, notified on 29 July 2016, with ownership of 75% or more of shares, 75% or more of voting rights, and the right to appoint or remove directors. An earlier entry for Rooftop Holdings Limited is shown as ceased.
BCM Asset Services (Holdings) Limited is registered under company number 05505964, incorporated on 12 July 2005, registered in London and active. Its current person with significant control is BCM Global Holdings Limited (13929760), notified on 31 August 2023, with ownership of 75% or more of shares. Ceased entries record Link Group Administration Limited (notified 3 November 2017, ceased 16 May 2024) and Capita plc (notified 6 April 2016, ceased 3 November 2017), each with 75% or more control.
Secure Trust Bank plc publishes a mortgages page stating that it no longer offers mortgage products to new customers and that existing customers' mortgages have been transferred to Rooftop Mortgages Limited, giving a contact telephone number and opening hours for Rooftop.
An unregulated interest-only buy-to-let mortgage of a little over £111,000 taken out in early 2007 with another lender and transferred to Rooftop Mortgages Limited in 2016. The term expired in 2022 and the borrower could not repay. Rooftop agreed a number of informal term extensions. In March 2025 it issued a formal demand. The borrower proposed selling the mortgaged property at a likely price of £75,000, paying a £5,000 lump sum from savings and repaying part of the residue from the sale of a second property expected sometime in 2026. Rooftop rejected those proposals. The complaint was not upheld.
Three buy-to-let mortgages where, due to arrears, Rooftop appointed Law of Property Act receivers to manage the properties. The receivers decided the properties were not viable as lettings and sold them, the third sale completing in August 2025. The complaint, raised in March 2025, concerned information about the disposals and the receivers' conduct, and was not upheld.
A complaint against Pepper (UK) Limited trading as Engage Credit about a mortgage taken out with Kensington Mortgage Company Limited in 2005 and transferred to Engage in 2022. The complaint concerned the interest rate, the balance and fees and charges added to the loan. It was upheld.
A buy-to-let mortgage held on one property within a wider portfolio. In June 2023 the borrower told Rooftop his buy-to-let business was no longer viable and that he had a buyer for the mortgaged property, but that the sale would leave a shortfall of around £15,000 which he said would be covered by the equity from the sale of another property. Rooftop declined and required full repayment on sale. The other sale did not proceed and both properties were let again. In March 2024 Rooftop started enforcement action because of the level of arrears. In April 2024 the borrower asked Rooftop to hold off, served notice on his tenants and remarketed the property. Rooftop agreed; the property sold for around £35,000 less than the asking price, leaving a shortfall of over £60,000.
Two joint buy-to-let mortgages in arrears. Rooftop's records showed final demand letters issued in August 2023 stating that LPA receivers would be appointed if the accounts were not brought up to date. Receivers were appointed. The complaint concerned notification of the appointment and the information provided about the accounts afterwards, and was not upheld.
A complaint against Barclays Bank UK PLC about an interest-only mortgage and a linked mortgage current account whose term ended in 2017. The borrowers were unhappy that the bank's solicitors sent them a notice to quit and that legal fees were added to the mortgage balance after they believed the mortgage had been repaid. The complaint was not upheld.
A buy-to-let mortgage where the borrowers began having difficulty paying in mid-2023 following interest rate rises. Rooftop appointed Law of Property Act receivers to manage the property. The complaint about that appointment and about Rooftop's conduct was not upheld.
Rooftop Mortgages Limited publishes a tariff of mortgage charges on its website. The version archived here states that it is effective from 3 February 2025 and sets out the fees the business says it may apply during the life of a mortgage, including fees connected with arrears, field agent activity, instructing solicitors, instructing receivers on buy-to-let accounts, repossession and redemption.
An interest-only mortgage taken out with Rooftop in 2006, fixed for two years and then reverting to LIBOR plus 4.1%. Payments from the borrowers and the Department for Work and Pensions cleared the arrears and built an overpayment balance, which was eroded from 2022 as interest rates rose and payments reduced. The complaint concerned the erosion of that balance, the interest rate increases and the charges applied, and was not upheld.
An interest-only mortgage taken out in May 2001 transferred to Rooftop in 2019; the term ended in May 2021. In July 2022 it emerged that the title deeds could not be located and had to be reconstituted, which was completed in August 2023. During that period the interest rate was set at 0% and no payments were required. The complaint concerned the lost deeds, a legal fee, resumed payments and a refused settlement offer, and was not upheld.
BCM Global publishes a legal page listing the legal entities that trade under the BCMGlobal name. Rooftop Mortgages Limited appears in that list, alongside BCMGlobal London Limited, BCMGlobal Netherlands BV, BCMGlobal (UK) Limited, BCMGlobal Mortgage Services Limited and BCMGlobal ASI Limited. The visible page text says it was updated in August 2023; the page metadata records a modification date of 3 October 2024.
A mortgage taken out in 2006 on a leasehold property. The borrower had been in a long-running dispute with a property management company about service charges. This service had already decided an earlier complaint about payments made up to August 2020. The Ombudsman dismissed the part of the new complaint covering that earlier period and decided the merits of one further payment. In January 2021 Rooftop received a county court judgment dated 25 November 2020 recording that the borrower owed the management company money. Rooftop wrote to her, told her she was in breach of her mortgage terms, and said that if it did not receive confirmation of an arrangement within ten days it might make the payment to protect its security. It made the payment on 16 February 2021 and added it to the mortgage account.
Receivers appointed by Rooftop sold a buy-to-let property at auction, leaving £69,800.45 still owing. The borrower said a letter from Rooftop meant she no longer owed it.
Outcome: The Ombudsman did not uphold the complaint. The shortfall was still owed, and the complaint about the sale itself was not one the service could consider against Rooftop.
An interest-only mortgage where the borrower arranged an equity release agreement with another provider that would not cover the full balance owed to Rooftop. She asked Rooftop to accept a shortfall of roughly £14,000, initially in February 2023, and on 7 April 2023 proposed repaying it at £500 per month on an unsecured basis. She told Rooftop she needed an answer by 12 May 2023, when the equity release offer expired. Rooftop conducted a new income and expenditure assessment on 20 April 2023 and confirmed acceptance on 12 May 2023 by telephone and by email sent at 11:12 am. The borrower was unable to confirm the equity release offer in time and the replacement offer was £10,000 lower.
Rooftop Mortgages Limited publishes a notice about the Financial Conduct Authority's Consumer Duty. The published document is marked version 1.0 dated 21 August 2023 and records that the Duty applies to closed products from 31 July 2024. It states that Rooftop is no longer an active lender and that all of its mortgages are closed products.
An interest-only mortgage taken out in 2007 with another lender transferred to Rooftop Mortgages in April 2019. The borrower made a £100 overpayment which was not applied to the capital balance, because Rooftop required overpayments of at least £1,000 to be applied to capital. The Ombudsman upheld the complaint, finding the mortgage offer permitted smaller overpayments and that Rooftop had not validly varied the contract terms.
Proceedings in the High Court concerning two securitisations of mortgages and loans known as the Stratton Securitisation and the Clavis Securitisation, and an August 2022 transaction under which the securitised assets were transferred to a new issuing vehicle, Stratton Hawksmoor 2022-1 Plc. Rooftop Mortgages Limited was the fifth defendant. The claim was brought in the name of Intensity Holdings S.A., which did not appear and was not represented at the hearing. The defendants applied to strike the claim out.
Rooftop Mortgages Limited publishes the income and expenditure form used when assessing a customer's circumstances. The published document is marked version 1.0 with a release date of 2 October 2020.
A complaint that Rooftop made payments to a managing agent claiming service charges on a leasehold property and added the cost to the mortgage balance. Rooftop had received copies of county court judgments recording that the borrower owed the managing agent money, and a copy of a section 146 notice said to have been served on her. Rooftop wrote to the borrower each time it received a request for payment. The complaint was not upheld.
A complaint brought through a claims management company about fees and charges added to a mortgage taken out in August 2006. Arrears fees, the cost of possession proceedings and unpaid direct debit fees had been added to the account. The Ombudsman upheld the complaint and required Rooftop to refund 31 monthly arrears management fees of £50 and six unpaid direct debit fees, totalling £1,685, and to rework the account to remove interest added to those fees.
A thread started in October 2019 after borrowers received letters about the sale of their mortgage from Mortgages PLC to Rooftop.
The earlier version of Rooftop's tariff of mortgage charges, printed as effective from 1 May 2019 and still hosted on the company's own website. It sets out the fees the business said it might apply during the life of a mortgage, including arrears, field agent, solicitor instruction, repossession, ground rent and service charge, and redemption fees. It contains no receiver instruction fee.
A leasehold mortgage originally taken out with another lender and later transferred to Rooftop. Rooftop paid service charges claimed by a management company after receiving a county court judgment and, later, a notice of proposed forfeiture, and charged a fee for making those payments. It also asked the borrower to pay arrears said to have been capitalised by the previous lender and sent field agents to visit. The management company later accepted that its notice was incorrect in parts and refunded the money paid by Rooftop, which put the account back into the position it would have been in. The complaint was not upheld.
A complaint against Barclays about legal fees of £6,943 charged to a shared ownership mortgage account after possession proceedings were stopped. The borrower's relatives said Barclays had refused to give a breakdown of the fees. The Ombudsman obtained and reviewed the confidential breakdown, the solicitors' charging scheme and the invoices, was satisfied that reasonable legal fees had been charged, and did not uphold the complaint.
A thread posted on 26 November 2016 by a borrower who had received a letter about their mortgage being transferred to Rooftop.
A complaint about the level of arrears and legal fees added to a mortgage account administered by Rooftop Mortgages Limited. Rooftop had already removed £230 of fees. The adjudicator recommended a further £250 be removed. The Ombudsman identified one additional monthly arrears management fee of £50, applied in July 2010, and ordered a total of £300 of charges to be reversed.
A thread started in September 2012 by a contributor describing the appointment of receivers over a let flat.
A thread posted on 24 July 2012 in which a contributor describes the repossession and sale of their home and the costs applied to the account.
A thread posted on 15 June 2012 concerning charges said to have been applied to a mortgage account from August 2009 onwards.
An open discussion thread started in November 2008 in which contributors describe their experience of holding a Rooftop mortgage and of trying to move to another lender.