Barclays, Halifax, HSBC and TSB implement increases across residential and buy-to-let products
Several major lenders, including Barclays, Halifax, HSBC, and TSB, are set to raise rates by up to 20 basis points (bps) from tomorrow, 21 July.
Notifications were sent to brokers this morning, covering increases across a range of products including tracker deals.
Barclays is lifting prices on a wide range of residential products spanning purchase, remortgage and product transfer deals — with most increases falling between 15 and 19bps. The steepest rises apply to existing mortgage customer (EMC) Reward deals. Its five-year tracker at 85% LTV will increase by 20bps, moving from 4.55% to 4.75%. The EMC Reward two-year fixed product at 70% LTV with a £1,999 fee will similarly rise 20bps, from 4.76% to 4.96%.
Halifax is increasing all two-, three-, and five-year fixed rates for home movers and first-time buyers by up to 20bps. Two-year tracker rates will rise by as much as 10bps for both purchase and remortgage customers.
TSB is raising selected residential rates by up to 20bps and buy-to-let rates by up to 15bps.
According to Moneyfacts, the average two-year fixed rate has risen to 5.51% from 5.46% the previous week, while the average five-year fixed rate has increased to 5.53% from 5.48%.
Aaron Strutt (pictured right), product director at Trinity Financial, said the Halifax move could signal further increases across the market. "This Halifax rate change probably means that Lloyds will be pushing up its cheap fixes as well, which undercut virtually all of the other lenders by quite some margin," he said. "Halifax has a decent 4.33% two-year fix and a 4.37% five-year fix available until close of business today.
"We are starting to see most of the lenders raising their fixes, and Halifax is even making its trackers more expensive which means it will no longer offer a sub-4% variable rate deals. We can probably expect a few more rate changes over the next few days, so it is unlikely to be worth holding off booking a rate if you are buying somewhere or remortgaging.
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