Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!

Special_Saver2

Hi Everybody,

I just completed an update for the first page of this thread. Here are the items that I have updated.

- Principality BS First Home Steps Savings Account (Issue 4) updated from issue 3 for new customers and Principality BS First Home Steps Online Savings Account (Issue 3) updated from issue 2 for new customers; both accounts have an interest rate with a single tier and it is 5.25% gross p.a. variable from 26th October 2023 (I also note from MSE forum user "someone" that they received an e-mail saying this change is being applied to their existing account of a previous issue)

- The Cambridge BS Extra Reward Regular Saver (Issue 2) added to the list on page 1 paying 6% fixed on up to £300 per month for 12 months for people who have been members for at least 3 years, no withdrawals allowed before maturity except for account closure with a penalty fee equivalent to 90 days' worth of interest (even if you have held the account for less than 90 days, so you could end up with less money than you deposited in the first place) and you can only hold one regular saver account at a time (so you cannot open both this account and the account below)

- The Cambridge BS Reward Regular Saver (Issue 3) added to the list on page 1 - same details as above except this pays a lower interest rate of 5% to people who have been members for at least a year

I will do the next update in 1-2 weeks' time.

SS2

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For those new to this thread, the first few posts are regularly updated and are on the first page
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6106986/regular-savings-accounts-the-best-currently-available-list/p1

liamcov

What happens to Monmouthshire accounts when they mature / how to access the money?

kaMelo

liamcov said:

What happens to Monmouthshire accounts when they mature / how to access the money?

It depends which account you're talking about as access varies depending upon the type of regular saver.
If it's an account that doesn't allow access until maturity they will write to you giving maturity options.
If the account allows access, such as the recently offered Exclusive Regular Saver and Regular Saver Issue 2, then the terms state;
At the end of the term, this account will automatically switch to the Society’s Easy Saver or the nearest equivalent available at that time. We will contact you as a reminder nearer the time.

PowerSavingMode

The Yorkshire Building Society Christmas 2023 Regular E-Saver account matures in a few days on 31st October 2023. I believe it reverts into an Access Saver on maturity. Just out of curiosity, is anyone worth bothering with opening YBS's Regular e-Saver at 5.25% (assuming not eligible for the 7% Loyalty RS)?

friolento

DJDools said:

The Yorkshire Building Society Christmas 2023 Regular E-Saver account matures in a few days on 31st October 2023. I believe it reverts into an Access Saver on maturity. Just out of curiosity, is anyone worth bothering with opening YBS's Regular e-Saver at 5.25% (assuming not eligible for the 7% Loyalty RS)?

I believe you can have both, the 5.25% and the 7% one. I have the XMAS saver maturing, too, and I won't go for the 5.25% one as I can get 6% in a 1-year fixed rate account, or I will just keep my £3k in a 5.2% or 5.25% easy access account.

Bazzalona13295

DJDools said:

The Yorkshire Building Society Christmas 2023 Regular E-Saver account matures in a few days on 31st October 2023. I believe it reverts into an Access Saver on maturity. Just out of curiosity, is anyone worth bothering with opening YBS's Regular e-Saver at 5.25% (assuming not eligible for the 7% Loyalty RS)?

I'll either continue to top up my ISA allowance (very probable) or just leave it in the Santander 5.2% EA account.
Got to a point where I have enough (too many) regular savers so if I can cut down on those I will.

Angelica123

DJDools said:

The Yorkshire Building Society Christmas 2023 Regular E-Saver account matures in a few days on 31st October 2023. I believe it reverts into an Access Saver on maturity. Just out of curiosity, is anyone worth bothering with opening YBS's Regular e-Saver at 5.25% (assuming not eligible for the 7% Loyalty RS)?

I am at the point where I have enough regular savers that will mature in approx 1 year's time to push me close to the PSA limit in next year's tax year so I am not looking to open any further regular savers. I will keep minimum amount left in access saver to make me eligible for loyalty products in the future.

Bridlington1

DJDools said:

The Yorkshire Building Society Christmas 2023 Regular E-Saver account matures in a few days on 31st October 2023. I believe it reverts into an Access Saver on maturity. Just out of curiosity, is anyone worth bothering with opening YBS's Regular e-Saver at 5.25% (assuming not eligible for the 7% Loyalty RS)?

I've been fully funding all 3 of those regular savers since they were each launched and will be fully funding the 5.25% one this month, although I'll have to fund it later in the month than usual due to my exhausting my EA accounts and the fact that I have some funds due to be arriving from a 90 day notice account in the first half of November. From December onwards it will probably get put on minimal funding though since by that point I expect to run out of money in EA accounts so I'll be emptying regular savers to fill other ones up from that point.

With regular savers that allow penalty free withdrawals online, if the rate is around the same as my top EA account and I have spare funds I tend to favour funding the regular saver as it takes a while to build up the balance of a regular saver but it is often very quick to empty if needed so it just hedges my bets a bit in case the account becomes more competitive in the future.

pookey

Angelica123 said:

DJDools said:

The Yorkshire Building Society Christmas 2023 Regular E-Saver account matures in a few days on 31st October 2023. I believe it reverts into an Access Saver on maturity. Just out of curiosity, is anyone worth bothering with opening YBS's Regular e-Saver at 5.25% (assuming not eligible for the 7% Loyalty RS)?

I am at the point where I have enough regular savers that will mature in approx 1 year's time to push me close to the PSA limit in next year's tax year so I am not looking to open any further regular savers. I will keep minimum amount left in access saver to make me eligible for loyalty products in the future.

I'm in a similar situation, I've maxed out this year's ISA allowance. 

I think i might just carry on with the monthly savers anyway because if the rates drop i might not use all my PSA. If it doesn't drop, then 80% of something is better then 100 of nothing 🤣

PowerSavingMode

Bridlington1 said:

With regular savers that allow penalty free withdrawals online, if the rate is around the same as my top EA account and I have spare funds I tend to favour funding the regular saver as it takes a while to build up the balance of a regular saver but it is often very quick to empty if needed so it just hedges my bets a bit in case the account becomes more competitive in the future.

That's a good point. I think the YBS RS allows two withdrawals, plus closure. So it might be worth opening, and see what happens to the rate.