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Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!

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  • ashteadgirl
    ashteadgirl Posts: 290 Forumite
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    Not a sausage. I’m set up to receive emails from them and nothing - not even in spam. I’m a little less than impressed I haven’t been contacted when so many others have! 
    Skipton online existing member regular saver - maturity instruction email

    Nothing received here yet either.

    On the app mine is showing a maturity date of 26/8.  

    Are the maturity dates for those that have already received this email before this date?

    Yes, mine matures 16/8. Received my email day before yesterday
  • TheWoodler
    TheWoodler Posts: 211 Forumite
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    Hi there, Sorry to read your comments. Please could you send an email to onlinecontact@skipton.co.uk with your details to we can explore this for you. Thanks - Skipton
    Thanks, I’ve emailed you from the email address you have for me. 
  • Daliah
    Daliah Posts: 3,792 Forumite
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    Over62 said:

    Skipton online existing member regular saver - maturity instruction email

    Nothing received here yet either.

    On the app mine is showing a maturity date of 26/8.  

    Are the maturity dates for those that have already received this email before this date?

    Mine matures on 18 August but I've had no email either. 
    Mine says "We'll write to let you know about your maturity options about 2 weeks before your account maturity date." So no need to panic if you haven't yet  heard - it should come any day now
  • soulsaver
    soulsaver Posts: 6,617 Forumite
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    edited 29 July 2022 at 11:12AM
    Not a sausage. I’m set up to receive emails from them and nothing - not even in spam. I’m a little less than impressed I haven’t been contacted when so many others have! 
    Skipton online existing member regular saver - maturity instruction email

    Nothing received here yet either.

    On the app mine is showing a maturity date of 26/8.  

    Are the maturity dates for those that have already received this email before this date?

    Yes, mine matures 16/8. Received my email day before yesterday
    Same here.
    @veryintrigued looks like you have a few days to wait yet. If the same as mine, add a couple of days more for the maturity options to appear online. 
  • dekkard
    dekkard Posts: 247 Forumite
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    With increasing interest rates, the fixed 1.75% Virgin Home Buying Coach Regular Savers are now not competitive. Even the Virgin M Plus Saver is now 1.71%. Has anyone closed one of these accounts? Are there any issues? There is no loss of interest. The alternative is reduce the balance to £1 and have a monthly standing order for £1 until maturity.
    Virgin have been known to increase RS rates in the past for already open accounts. Let's hope that come 4th Aug or soon after there will be an increase.
    Even if not the HBC RS are effectively easy access savings accounts so will still trump other accounts in this category.

    Loughborough RS and some Monmouth RS however are now no longer viable unless rates increase.

    Time to re-evaluate some S/Os before Monday.
    The Virgin Home Buying Coach accounts are all fixed interest rate so the rate won't be changing, right?
  • Daliah
    Daliah Posts: 3,792 Forumite
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    dekkard said:
    The Virgin Home Buying Coach accounts are all fixed interest rate so the rate won't be changing, right?
    Correct, and you can withdraw and/or close without loss of interest.
  • Section62
    Section62 Posts: 9,822 Forumite
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    dekkard said:
    With increasing interest rates, the fixed 1.75% Virgin Home Buying Coach Regular Savers are now not competitive. Even the Virgin M Plus Saver is now 1.71%. Has anyone closed one of these accounts? Are there any issues? There is no loss of interest. The alternative is reduce the balance to £1 and have a monthly standing order for £1 until maturity.
    Virgin have been known to increase RS rates in the past for already open accounts. Let's hope that come 4th Aug or soon after there will be an increase.
    Even if not the HBC RS are effectively easy access savings accounts so will still trump other accounts in this category.

    Loughborough RS and some Monmouth RS however are now no longer viable unless rates increase.

    Time to re-evaluate some S/Os before Monday.
    The Virgin Home Buying Coach accounts are all fixed interest rate so the rate won't be changing, right?

    As Wheres_My_Cashback suggests, Virgin have been known to increase the interest rate on regular savings accounts with a fixed rate.

    Whether that might happen again in the future none of us can predict.
  • schiff
    schiff Posts: 20,261 Forumite
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    Once easy access rates go up to 1.75% or 1.80% - which can't be so far off now - Virgin will have to do something. It won't be worth putting more money into the existing RSs. I thought the last one was very risky on their part.
  • Rollinghome
    Rollinghome Posts: 2,729 Forumite
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    Not a sausage. I’m set up to receive emails from them and nothing - not even in spam. I’m a little less than impressed I haven’t been contacted when so many others have! 
    Skipton online existing member regular saver - maturity instruction email

    Nothing received here yet either.

    On the app mine is showing a maturity date of 26/8.  

    Are the maturity dates for those that have already received this email before this date?

    You should get an email 2-3 weeks before maturity. 

    If you don't give an instruction, your cash goes into an easy access "Online Matured Funds Issue 9 A" (which currently pays 0.9%), and you can withdraw whenever you want from there. 




  • karie
    karie Posts: 483 Forumite
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    edited 31 July 2022 at 7:04PM
    Not sure if it’s covered here but just came across a YBS reg saver offering 5%.
    for existing customers only unfortunately 
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