Short Term Fixed Rate
The Alliance & Leicester is offering a fixed rate until the 31st May 2007 at 4.86%, reverting to the standard variable rate for the remaining term of the mortgage, currently 5.5%. The overall cost for comparison is 5.5% APR. An Early Repayment Charge is payable if you repay all or part of this mortgage during the fixed rate period. There is a valuation fee of £280 and an arrangement fee of £395 that can be added to the loan.
Long Term Fixed Rate
The Alliance & Leicester is offering a fixed rate deal until the 31st May 2010 at 4.99%, reverting to the standard variable rate for the remaining term of the mortgage, currently 5.5%. The overall cost for comparison is 5.4% APR. An Early Repayment Charge is payable if you repay all or part of this mortgage during the fixed rate period. There is a valuation fee of £280 and an arrangement fee of £395 that can be added to the loan.
Short Term Discount
The Norwich & Peterborough is offering a variable rate two year discounted scheme at a current interest rate of 3.55%, reverting to the standard variable rate for the remaining term of the mortgage, currently 6.55%. The overall cost for comparison is 6.2% APR. An Early Repayment Charge is payable if you repay all or part of this mortgage within 5 years. There is a valuation fee of £225 and no arrangement fee.
Long Term Discount
The Lambeth Building Society is offering a variable rate discounted scheme to the 31st May 2010, at a current rate of 4.69%, reverting to the standard variable rate for the remaining term of the mortgage, currently 6.94%. The overall cost for comparison is APR 6.3%. An Early Repayment Charge is payable if you repay all or part of this mortgage within 5 years. There is a valuation fee of £155 and an arrangement fee of £395 that can be added to the loan.
Cashback
The Scarborough Building Society is offering a ten year fixed rate mortgage of 6.99% that gives an 11% cashback on the amount borrowed, reverting to the standard variable rate for the remaining term of the mortgage, currently also 6.99%. The overall cost for comparison is 7.3% APR. There is a requirement to repay the cashback on early repayment of the loan. There is a
valuation fee of £235 and an arrangement fee of £595.
Buy to Let
The NatWest is offering a tracker buy to let mortgage to the 30th June 2007 at a current rate of 5.29%, reverting to the standard variable rate for the remaining term of the mortgage, currently 7.29%. The overall cost for comparison is 7.2% APR. An Early Repayment Charge is payable if you repay all or part of this mortgage during the tracker period. There is no valuation fee, while the arrangement fee of £395 can be added to the loan.
There is no guarantee that it will be possible to arrange continuous letting of the property nor that the rental income will be sufficient to meet the cost of the mortgage.
Remortgage
For those looking to remortgage, The Halifax is offering a variable rate tracker scheme until the 31st May 2007, currently at 5.14% then reverting to the standard variable rate for the remaining term of the mortgage, currently 6.75%. The overall cost for comparison is 6.6% APR. An Early Repayment Charge is payable if you repay all or part of this mortgage during the discount period. This mortgage offers a free valuation, free legal work and no arrangement fees.
Your existing lender may impose penalties if you switch your mortgage to a new lender.
Tracker
The week's best tracker is from the Abbey, with a two year deal at variable base rate minus 0.11%. This equates to 4.64%, then reverts to the standard variable rate for the remaining term of the mortgage, currently 6.75%. The overall cost for comparison is 6.6%. An Early Repayment Charge is payable if you repay all or part of this mortgage within the first 24 months. There is a valuation fee of £260 and an arrangement fee of £499, which can be added to the mortgage.
Figures based on £150,000 purchase price or value and £100,000 repayment mortgage over 25 years. All figures are subject to revision, but current at time of going to press.
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