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Mortgage rates have dropped to their lowest level in a year as product numbers continue to grow, but fewer than half of deals are available to brokers, according to financial information provider Moneyfacts.
Defaqto has urged borrowers to change to an offset mortgage to help them make better use of their savings and pay less interest.
Secured loans lender, Link Loans, has relaunched with new equity funding from the RBS Special Opportunities Fund and debt funding from RBS Financial Institutions.
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Housing affordability is at its highest level since 2003, according to Zoopla.
Savings rates are falling in order to fund mortgage cuts, according to financial information provider Moneyfacts.
Skipton Building Society has scrapped the ceiling on its standard variable rate (SVR) meaning it will rise from 3.5% to 4.95% from March 1.
Woolwich has reduced rates on its tracker range by up to 0.20%.
In the last few months, lenders have reduced mortgage rates but savers are losing out as providers cut the savings rates which they offer.
Moneysupermarket has warned those on standard variable rates (SVRs) that they are not reaping the full benefit of the low base rate after its analysis showed the average SVR deal is now 4.2% above the base rate.
RBS Intermediary Partners (RBS IP) will introduce new deals to its intermediary mortgage range and reduce rates on some of its other deals from tomorrow.
Platform has reduced rates on several fixed and tracker deals for the second time in two months and has implemented changes to its mortgage proposition.
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