Barclays will decrease rates on a selection of two and five-year residential purchase-only products from 1 December.
Highlights of the reductions include a five-year fixed rate at 60 per cent loan to value (LTV) with £899 fee which will fall from 4.78 per cent to 4.39 per cent. It has a minimum loan of £5,00o going up to £2m.
The lender’s fee-free five-year fixed rate at 75 per cent LTV will go down from 4.95 per cent to 4.7 per cent. The minimum loan is £5,000 and the maximum loan is £2m.
Barclays five-year fixed rate at 90 per cent LTV with £999 fee will decrease from 5.2 per cent to 4.95 per cent. It also has a minimum loan level of £5,000 with the maximum loan going up to £570,000.
The firm has cut green home deals, including its two-year fixed rate with no fee at 90 per cent LTV which will decrease from 5.68 per cent to 5.53 per cent. It has a minimum loan of £5,000 and maximum loan of £570,000.
Its five-year fixed rate green home product at 90 per cent LTV with £999 fee will go down from 5.1 per cent to 4.85 per cent. The minimum loan is £5,000 and the maximum loan is £570,000.
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
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