Virgin Money cuts BTL, H2B and residential rates

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Virgin Money has made a number of rate reductions on selected products across its core residential, buy-to-let and Help to Buy product ranges. 

Key changes to the core residential product range:

  • Two-year fixed rate up to 65% LTV reduced to 1.44% (£995 product fee)
  • Two-year fixed rate up to 90% LTV reduced to 2.35% (£995 product fee)
  • Five-year fixed rate up to 65% LTV reduced to 1.99% (£995 product fee)

Key changes to the Help to Buy Guarantee product range:

  • Two-year fixed rate at 95% LTV reduced to 3.79% (No product fee)
  • Five-year fixed rate at 95% LTV reduced to 4.39% (No product fee)

Key changes to the Help to Buy Equity Loan product range – with £500 cashback for purchase customers:

  • Two-year fixed rate up to 75% LTV reduced to 1.65% (£995 product fee)
  • Five-year fixed rate up to 55% LTV reduced to 2.19% (£995 product fee)

Key changes to buy-to-let product range – with £500 cashback for purchase and remortgage customers:

  • Two-year fixed rate up to 75% LTV reduced to 2.19% (£1,995 product fee)
  • Five-year fixed rate up to 75% LTV reduced to 3.19% (£1,995 product fee)

Peter Rogerson, Virgin Money’s commercial director for mortgages said: “We are delighted to be making a number of improvements across our residential, Help to Buy and buy-to-let product ranges.

“After reporting a strong performance for the first six months of 2016, we remain focused on supporting our intermediary partners – and we believe this new range will be very popular with their customers.”

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