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What is your current mortgage rate...

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  • samizdat
    samizdat Posts: 398 Forumite
    3.75% 5 year fix with Leeds BS. Ends in December.
  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    JonnyBravo wrote: »
    BoE -0.13% (ie 4.87% currently) but finishes end of Sept...... (sigh)

    just got in to grab the end of the 5.49% for 10 yrs that was available from FD (pulled on Tuesday). Will be moving to this come Oct...... (phew)
  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    Mine is BOE rate + 0.24% with A&L..Works well for me as I can overpay as much as I like.
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • I'm on a Woolwich lifetime tracker at +0.18%, with unlimited overpayments - glad I remortgaged last summer.
    Mortgage Free thanks to ill-health retirement
  • Jonbvn
    Jonbvn Posts: 5,562 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    I think the important issue that this thread is missing is how much the up-front fees for the mortgage were/are. HSBC are employing clever marketing with their rate matcher, given the huge upfront fees due in some cases.
    In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:
  • Lunar_Eclipse
    Lunar_Eclipse Posts: 3,060 Forumite
    Jonbvn wrote: »
    I think the important issue that this thread is missing is how much the up-front fees for the mortgage were/are. HSBC are employing clever marketing with their rate matcher, given the huge upfront fees due in some cases.

    That is a very valid point. The 'joining' fees are getting quite ridiculous now and are likely to prevent us taking up another fixed rate when ours ends in November. There is a point at which they make the offer quite unattractive.

    Currently on 4.99% offset with FD, ending late in November as I just mentioned. Unless they bring back a 2 year fixed with 'only' a £99 booking fee (as they did before the latest new mortgages were released last week), then we will probably revert to the SVR, currently 6%. As well as looking elsewhere nearer the time. I really like our offset mortgage and we have banked with them for a long time (1994), so it would be a shame to move.
  • JonWB
    JonWB Posts: 10 Forumite
    2 years into a Nationwide 10 year fixed at 4.89%...
  • netlang
    netlang Posts: 115 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    4.29% til December 2011 :)
  • save-a-lot
    save-a-lot Posts: 2,809 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    We are on a 4.67% fix for 10 years and we have about 8 years left to run with that deal.
  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Jonbvn wrote: »
    I think the important issue that this thread is missing is how much the up-front fees for the mortgage were/are. HSBC are employing clever marketing with their rate matcher, given the huge upfront fees due in some cases.

    Granted fees have risen hugely over the last 5 years.
    How relevant they are depends largely on how large your mortgage is. The larger the mortgage the less important the fee and that 0.1%, 0.2% etc become all the more important
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