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Barclays and TSB make rate changes – round-up
Barclays is changing a range of rates across its existing customer residential purchase, remortgage and reward ranges.
Barclays’ changes will come into force from 24 May.
Within its existing product range, its residential purchase-only five-year fixed rate at 90% loan to value (LTV) with a £999 fee will fall from 5% to 4.9%.
Its green home five-year fixed rate at 90% LTV with a £999 fee will decrease from 4.9% to 4.8%.
Barclays’ residential purchase-only premier three-year fixed rate with a £999 fee at 60% LTV will rise from 4.32% to 4.57%.
The firm’s remortgage-only premier two-year fixed rate with a £999 fee will go up from 4.6% to 4.85%.
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Its two-year fixed rate at 60% LTV will increase from 4.61% to 4.86%, and its two-year fixed rate at 75% LTV will go up to 4.75% to 5%. Both come with a £999 fee.
The lender’s fee-free Great Escape two-year fixed rate at 60% LTV will rise from 4.83% to 5.08%, and at 75% LTV, it will increase to 5.17%.
Within its existing customer purchase and remortgage, its two-year fixed rate at 60% LTV will rise from 4.61% to 4.91%, and at 70% LTV, the price will go up from 4.71% to 4.96%. At 75% LTV, the rate will increase from 4.75% to 5.05%. All come with a £1,999 fee.
In Barclays’ existing customer reward range, residential two-year fixed rate EMC Reward deal at 60% LTV is priced at 4.75% with a £999 fee, and its fee-free version is 4.98%.
At 75% LTV, its £999 fee version is 4.9% and its fee-free version is 5.07%, while its 70% LTV version with a £1,999 fee is 4.66%, and its switch-only version is 4.86%.
TSB cuts rates
TSB is lowering residential rates and reintroducing select tracker house purchase and remortgage products.
In its residential range, two- and five-year fixed first-time buyer and homemover deals between 75% and 95% LTV will fall by up to 0.4%.
Three-year fixed first-time buyer and homemover up to 90% LTV will decrease by up to 0.35%.
TSB has reintroduced two-year tracker first-time buyer, homemover and remortgage products.
Two-year fixed remortgage deals from 75% to 90% LTV will go down by up to 0.25%, and five-year fixed remortgage deals up to 90% LTV will decrease by up to 0.2%.
Shared ownership and shared equity rates will decrease by 0.4% and 0.25% respectively.
Within its buy-to-let (BTL) range, TSB would reintroduce two-year tracker house purchase and remortgage deals.