Nationwide has announced that from September this year it will raise interest rates by 1.5% for residential mortgage customers who choose to let out their homes for longer than six months on new lets.
Those currently letting out their homes will see their mortgage rates increase once they have done so for three years or more. Nationwide said the move was taken to due to the higher risk and cost of such borrowers.
Yet, whether this is a fair move by Nationwide split readers down the middle, with 44% saying the building society was right to take such action and 42% believing the move was unfair.
Just 14% were undecided either way.
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