Special Summer offers have been announced by the Co-op, better known in financial circles as CIS. Their key offer is on a three year tracker mortgage that is only available to CIS current account holders.
The first thing to notice is the sub 6 percent interest rate – 5.99 percent when customers can provide a 25 percent deposit. There is also no fee on this particular mortgage, something that is refreshing in the mortgage market of today. Customers will also be pleased to see that there are no legal fees and remortgage customers can also receive a free property valuation.
There is great flexibility in this CIS mortgage too, with the option to overpay and thus reduce the total repayment term and interest. Payment holidays are also available to help customers manage their expenditure from time to time.
New mortgage customers at the Halifax will have to pay a little more for their home loans from today if they are taking out a tracker or fixed rate mortgage product.
The Halifax tracker mortgage rate goes up to 6.29 percent from 5.99, which is 1.29 percent above the base rate set by the Bank of England. Meanwhile the three year fixed rate mortgage offer rises to 6.44 percent, up from 6.22. A Halifax spokesman clarified that the increases will apply to just 5 of the 32 different tracker mortgages they offer and 19 of the 31 different fixed rate mortgages provided.
In that context then there are still many opportunities to avoid paying the extra interest, though of course the Halifax mortgage products that have been selected are the ones that will be the most popular.
Effective from 16 May the Nationwide Building Society will have reduced interest rates on both two year and five year fixed rate mortgages.
The two year fixed rate mortgage will have a new rate of 5.95 percent with just a GBP599 arrangement fee. There is also a fee-free Nationwide Building Society two year foxed rate mortgage that will be available at 6.35 percent. These rates are for people moving house but there is also a remortgage offer, with rates of 6.15 and 6.55 percent respectively for the same mortgage offers as above.
The longer five year fixed rate mortgage can be had at 5.85 percent for house purchasers, again with a GBP599 fee, while the remortgage option is 5.95 percent. Customers coming to the Nationwide Building Society to change mortgage from a different company are also entitled to a special offer on a five year fixed rate mortgage, with no fee, at 5.95 percent.