Yorkshire Building Society has announced a new range of fixed-rate bonds paying interest at up to 4.6% gross/AER. Customers can choose between two year, three year and five year options. Interest is paid at 3.56% on the two year bond, 4.11% on the three year bond, and 4.6% on the five year bond. Savers can […]
Leeds Building Society has launched a new instant access five year bond paying interest at 3.5%. Savers can access up to 50% of the money saved in the bond at any time without penalty. Leeds said it designed the bond by looking at the other bonds available on the market and coming up with something […]
Accord Mortgages has launched a new ten-year fixed rate deal with loan-to-value ratios of between 75% and 85%, and a starting rate of 5.24%. The Yorkshire Building Society subsidiary has also made a number of rate reductions across its range, cutting five-year fixed rates by up to 0.5%, and two and three-year fixes by 0.35% […]
The Co-operative Bank and Britannia today launched a new five-year mortgage at a fixed-rate of 3.99%. The mortgage is available to homeowners with a deposit of at least 25%. Borrowers taking out the mortgage are required to pay a £999 fee. The two providers, which merged last year, also announced a two-year fixed rate mortgage […]
Savings experts have warned that a new Football Bond from Nationwide is a World Cup “gimmick”. Customers who take out the bond will he paid a bonus if England wins the World Cup trophy this summer. The four-year fixed rate bond pays 4.15% (AER) gross per year. If England win the World Cup, the interest […]
Applications for home loans have bounced back to February 2008 levels, according to Countrywide. The mortgage broker has reported a 20% increase in applications during March (compared to February) marking the third consecutive monthly rise. Looking back over the first quarter of 2010, volumes were up 9% year-on-year indicating that property buyers have a renewed […]
The number of loans advanced for house purchases increased by 12% in February, showing a modest recovery on January when the figures were weak due to the end of the stamp-duty holiday and the severe winter weather. According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) 35,000 house purchase loans were advanced worth £5 billion, up […]
Leeds Building Society this week launched an ISA paying interest at 4.6%. The five-year fixed rate account can be opened with just £1. Savers can access up to 25% of their savings at any time without notice or penalty. Kim Rebecchi, Leeds Building Society’s Sales and Marketing Director said the ISA is a “market leading […]
Nationwide Building Society has launched a new four year fixed-rate ISA paying interest at 4.25%. The ISA can be opened with a minimum balance of £1, and transfers from previous ISA savings are accepted. Nationwide also announced that its three year fixed-rate ISA paying interest at 4.15% will now only be available to existing Nationwide […]
High inflation continues to diminish the value of money put aside into savings accounts, a financial expert has claimed. Michelle Slade of Moneyfacts.co.uk said that with the Consumer Price Index at 3%, basic rate taxpayers need to find a savings account paying 3.75% interest to ensure their savings pot retains its full value. However, only […]
The average cost of a two-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to a six-and-a-half-year low during February, according to new figures from the Bank of England. The average rate stood to 3.88%, down from 3.97% a month earlier to a level last seen in July 2003. Five-year fixed-rates also eased last month, declining to an average 5.49%, […]
Santander’s ISA has been rated top in Moneynet.co.uk’s best buy charts. The ISA, paying 3.5%, pipped Barclay’s offering to the top spot. Both Barclays and Santander are paying high rates than the best one-year fixed-rate ISAs. “The Isa market is really taking shape as we approach the annual hot bed of activity as providers look […]
Coventry Building Society has announced plans to reduce the rates on its residential re-mortgage products. The new lower rates include a 2-year fixed-rate deal at 3.5% with £999 fees at 65% loan to value. The lender also revealed a new fixed-rate mortgage offering borrowers the opportunity to make unlimited overpayments without penalty. The new range […]
The fixed-rate mortgage has just passed its 21st birthday, having been launched by Halifax in 1988 at an astonishing rate of 12.75%. However, the lender is celebrating the enduring appeal of this type of home loan with the following facts and figures: By 2009, 68% of new mortgage lending took the form of fixed-rate deals, […]
Tracker rates fell to record lows in January, Bank of England statistics have revealed. For those with a 25% deposit, the rate on the average tracker deal declined to 3.63%, down from 3.92% in December. The shift indicates that competition is hotting up, given that the base rate has now been maintained at 0.5% for […]
Online bank First Direct has launched a new one-year fixed-rate bond paying interest at 2.75%. The bond is only available to First Direct customers, and can be opened with a deposit of between £2,000 and £49,999. No deposits or withdrawals can be made once the bond is opened. Customers who need to withdraw money from […]
The Coventry Building Society has launched a new 30-month fixed-rate bond paying interest at 4.25%. Savers can open the bond with an investment of between £1 and £250,000, and can choose between monthly and yearly interest payments. No money can be withdrawn from the bond until it matures in August 2012. The bonds are available […]
Santander has launched new two year tracker and fixed rate mortgage products, and has reduced the rate on its five year fixed rate mortgage. The two year mortgages are available to both first time buyers and home-owners at up to 70% loan-to-value (LTV) Interest on the fixed-rate mortgage is 3.44%, while interest on the tracker […]
Clydesdale Bank has launched a new one-year fixed-rate bond paying interest at 4.5%. The bond is exclusively available to customers also taking out an AXA investment product with the bank. Savers must invest at least £2,000 in the bond, and the equivalent in an AXA investment product. No withdrawals can be made from the bond. […]
The Nottingham has launched a new fixed-rate savings account aimed at customers who want to save “little and often”. The Fixed-Rate Regular Saver pays interest at 5%, and can be opened with a minimum deposit of £10. Savers can set aside up to £100 per month into the account, and are not penalised for missing […]
Gender directive could slash men’s annuity payouts
The EU Gender Directive, which came into force today, could see men losing up to £10,000 from their annuity payouts, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Under the new rules insurers are no longer allowed to take gender into account when setting annuity rates and premiums on insurance products. Men previously enjoyed higher annuity rates than […]
Home rental costs down in November
The cost of renting a house in England and Wales fell by 0.4 per cent in November, its first dip since March, according to a survey by LSL Property Services. Average rent was £741m during the month, returning to the level seen in September. However, it was 3.4 per higher than in November last year. […]
Lloyds TSB halts sale of packaged accounts in branches
Lloyds TSB will stop selling packaged account in its branches from 1 January 2013, until its sales procedures are brought into line with those operated by sister bank The Halifax. Lloyds TSB is one of the main providers of packaged accounts in Britain, with around one in three of its customers choosing to pay fees […]
Housing market recovery to continue next year
Recent improvements in the housing market should continue into next year, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) Gross lending is estimated to have increased to £12.9 billion in November, helped by the Funding for Lending scheme which provides banks and building societies with lower-cost funding, which they are then supposed to pass on […]
Newcastle Building Society exits interest-only mortgages
Newcastle Building Society has stopped offering interest-only mortgages to new borrowers, following the lead of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Nationwide, Co-operative bank and Coventry Building Society. The decision will not affect existing Newcastle customers and applications for interest-only mortgages received before 14 December will still be processed. Prior to the credit crunch, interest-only mortgages […]
Less than half of Brits considered creditworthy
Fifty-seven per cent of UK adults are at risk of having an application for credit turned down by a mainstream lender according to a new report. The ‘Mind the Credit Gap‘ report commissioned by aqua credit cards suggests that even people with a good credit rating and earning more than £50,000 could have a credit […]
Monthly incomes £22 lower in 2012
The average monthly income of UK households fell by £22 in real terms compared with last year, according to a survey carried out for the Bank of England (BoE) by NMG Consulting. People on lower incomes have seen their income eroded more than higher earners and households still have high levels of debt the BoE […]
Savers dig deep to fund Christmas
New research from the Halifax suggests that savers are funding their Christmas spending with money set aside for other purposes. Thirty-seven per cent of 2,138 savers surveyed by the bank at the end of November had withdrawn savings in the last three months. The average amount withdrawn was £1,186, more than double the average savings […]
Financial data at risk from unsafe passwords
According to a survey by the Payments Council the problem of having to remember a different password for several accounts means that many internet users are compromising the security of their financial data. Internet users have 22 password-protected accounts on average and many use the same log-in details for more than one account, even though […]
Wonga launches Paylater loans on retailer website
Payday loan company Wonga has launched a new Paylater service on furniture firm Cotswold Company’s website. The service, which allows customers to “buy now, pay later” will be introduced on other retailers’ sites in the near future. Although the Paylater branding is similar to Wonga’s, the Wonga name only appears in the small print. A […]
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