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Northern
Rock and Woolwich Cut Rates
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Northern
Rockand Woolwich are the latest companies to cut interest rates
on their mortgage range.
Northern Rock is also increasing the LTV for its best rate mortgage
from 65% to 70%, reducing its rates and also cutting the £995
arrangement fee for all residential purchases, but not remortgages,
to £595. The cheapest two-year fixed rate mortgage they
have for purchases dropped by 0.34% from 4.09% to 3.75%. They
also made a 0.5% cut to its two-year buy to let (BTL) fixed
rates. The rate to 60% LTV is down to 5.49% and the rate to
70% to 6.09%, both with an unchanged, massive 2.5% fee.
The Woolwich today launched two new best buy tracker mortgages
as it continued to look at expanding its share of the existing
mortgage market. The company is reducing its lifetime tracker
for people with at least a 30% deposit by 0.45% to 2.79%. The
deal, which charges a £999 fee and has early redemption
penalties for the first two years, is the lowest available for
home owners looking to borrow up to 70% of the value of their
home. The group, which is part of Barclays, also launched a
lifetime fee-free tracker mortgage at 3.19%, also for people
with a 30% deposit.
Tracker mortgages are becoming increasingly popular with consumers
as economists predict the Bank of England base rate will remain
low for longer than previously thought. They are also generally
lower than fixed rate deals at the moment. |
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