Articles Tagged With: Standard Variable Rate

Mortgage customers should expect larger mortgage repayments over the next year as they get their share of an additional £300 million estimated to be added to the nationwide bill, according to watchdog

Homeowners are getting used to low interest rates and could be missing out on some of the best cheap mortgages for years, it has been claimed. According to research by unbiased.co.uk, 37 per cent of homeowners

The vast majority of lenders failed to fully pass on cuts in the base rate to their Standard Variable Rate SVR mortgage customers, it has been revealed. New research from Which? found that 95 per cent

A study has revealed that one fifth of homeowners are unaware how an increase in mortgage rates will affect them. Research from unbiased.co.uk found that 22 per cent of homeowners do not know what would

Barclays is aiming to free its customers from standard variable rate mortgages with a specially designed The Great Escape remortgage package. The Great Escape plan is aimed at borrowers looking for the

Natwest and RBS will reduce mortgage rates by up to 0.50 per cent across a range of deals up to 60 per loan to value LTV. The new rates, which start tomorrow October 19th, are designed to give new

There is a danger that mortgage borrowers could consider the current low base rate to be the norm, it has been claimed. Interest rates have been kept on hold at 0.5 per cent since March 2009, but cannot

The standard variable rate SVR structure at Lloyds TSB and Cheltenham & Gloucester mortgages has changed, with the lenders' 2.5 per cent deal for new borrowers scrapped. New customers are now to

The Bank of England has acted as expected by freezing interest rates at 0.5 per cent for a further month. With the general election yielding a hung parliament, many commentators believed political uncertainty

Legal & General Network is set to distribute ING Direct mortgages in a new pilot scheme, it has been announced. Fixed, tracker and standard variable rate mortgages will become available through the

The remortgage market has returned to strength during the first two months of 2010, it has been reported. According to the John Charcol Index, purchases took only 47.3 per cent of mortgages sold by the

Housing market supply is once again outstripping demand, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Rics. The organisation says new instructions outpaced buyer interest for a second consecutive

At least three million UK borrowers do not know the rate of interest at which they are currently repaying their mortgage, it has been reported. Post Office Mortgages reports that 28 per cent are ignorant

The decision of the Bank of England to freeze its base rate is "good news" for mortgagees on tracker and standard variable rate deals, it has been suggested. Yesterday it was announced that interest