Search


free counters

Posts Tagged ‘Interest Payments’

Woolwich cuts offset rates on deal's tenth birthday

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Woolwich has today (June 1st) announced that it will cut its offset mortgage rates to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the package first being introduced.

It is ten years since Britain’s first offset mortgage package was introduced and Barclays has heralded the impact the product has had on the UK’s home credit market over the last decade.

On June 1st 2000, Woolwich changed the face of home credit lending in the UK by introducing the country’s first offset mortgage, the blueprint for products which Barclays estimates has since saved its borrowers in the region of £1 billion in interest payments.

In order to celebrate this landmark tenth anniversary, Woolwich has cut the base rate of its current offset deal from 3.49 per cent (base +2.99) to 3.09 per cent (base +2.59).

According to Barclays, Woolwich customers are now keeping around £21,000 in their individual current account and savings accounts, while an offset mortgage from the lender is worth an average of £132,000.

This is enabling customers to pay off their mortgages around three years earlier than before as they are able to offset their savings against their home credit deal.

Andy Gray, head of mortgages for Barclays, said: “Offset mortgages stimulated a new approach to the way people have borrowed money over the last ten years.

“Previously, people treated a mortgage as a 25-year commitment, now people are knocking years off their mortgage, saving them masses in interest.”

Mr Gray added that offset plans were destined to become a popular product due to the fact that they are “brilliantly simple” and allow people to go about their financial business as per usual while saving them cash.

Also, these deals allow customers to keep their savings accessible while automatically reducing mortgage interest without the burden of committing to a long-term bond.

Defaqto recently stated that there has never been a better time for higher-rate taxpayers to consider taking out an offset package due to the huge tax benefits they can offer if managed correctly.

-
About the Author:
UK Price Comparison website http://www.which4u.co.uk Compares Credit Cards, Savings Accounts, Fixed Rate Bonds, Bank Accounts, ISAs, Loans, Mortgages, Insurance, TV & Broadband and Gas/Electric bills to find the best UK deals
Article Source

  • Share/Bookmark

A bit of humor...


Powered By WPHumor

Famous Quotes..


Powered By Famous Quotes

Please Note... All links within articles are placed by their author-owners and not by this blog.Products with in those links may or may not be the best in the world.If it sounds too good to be true it could be a scam.Articles are posted for their info,ideas and or entertainment value only.

Powered By WP Footer

No More Mortgage

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

As today’s economy continues to sink, there are many programs you may consider to be in your best interest and affordable. Just the thought of having no more mortgage payment brings tears to the family who has been distracted with interest payments for years. It is said that 78% of all income is paid out to debt of some type. The major percent of each payment going to interest. So let’s look at your options in debt settlement programs for bringing resolve.

For those with mounting, uncontrolled unsecured debt there are several debt settlement programs available. Another option is consumer credit counseling. This program will some times lower your monthly payment. Keep in mind it is only lowered while in the CCCS program. Should you or the counselor be late in getting the payment to the creditor, that interest you had lowered will raise its ugly head again making things even worse than ever. Keeping the above in mind, they want you to think they are non-profit and manage your money well. Consumer Credit Counseling your going to go through a counselor who will tell you what you already know. After you have paid your enrollment fee, and agreed to automatic bank drafts they will start your program. Your counselor will then contact your creditors and “attempt” to lower your interest. No More Mortgage has the tools to train your spending and balance in your budgeting to avoid these pitfals.

A news artcle in California found Clients of the California-based National Consumer Council, Florida-based Debt Management Foundation Services Inc. and Massachusetts-based Better Budget Financial Services Inc. paid thousands of dollars to keep bill collectors at bay, but instead clients saw their debts, interest rates and late fees increase as the three companies did little to help.

As wolves in sheep’s clothing, CCCS, follows up with your creditor with a letter of council that tells them of your involvement in their program and asks them the work with them. Then, ask for what is well known as their contribution. They claim to be non profit, yet the money you could be paying toward your debt goes to them. First decision is obvious consumer credit counseling services work for the bank, not you. No More Mortgage suggest you consider all options before you commit to change.

Debt Consolidation is always a great way to bring resolve to your debt as long as you have a process in place before debt consolidation to settle the debt. If there is no procedure in place to discount the amount owed, there is no “smart” reason to conduct a consolidation loan. Lowering the monthly payment is nice, but the end result may not be what you desired. A simple trade out of loans does not lower the amount owed or monthly payment, and in most cases your going to end up owing double what you started with. You will as 80% of consumers do, bring accounts to a zero balance and owe another lender at a lower or longer rate/term. In most cases people that go through debt consolidation will re-use the accounts that were paid off, resulting in double the debt. No More Mortgage shows no faver in borrowing your way into deeper debt.

The end result is if you have a well qualified debt settlement program in place that will take charge and get you the desired results, and guarantee this is in writing your sure to get back on track.

With a fee based Debt Settlement Program and Negotiation you have many options, and in several ways can save you money. You should know that no debt settlement company or debt settlement program can perform any real service to you till such time as you have money to settle. If it is a buffer or shield your looking for, do not look to a quality debt settlement company with an honest debt settlement program. They will understand the creditor and your account better than your average debt settlement company and will be able to guide you through the debt settlement program .

Further, the fees charged by fee based debt settlement and negotiation company is going to cost you about 15% of your total debt load. So what ever you see in advertisement’s, you can add about 15 % to their quote, and in most cases is paid up front before the job is done or even started. Read the fine print and guarantee. If they are not wiling to give you a written guarantee to perform and produce you should reconsider doing business with them, regardless of their affiliations or ratings.

You have heard the old saying, if it is not in writing it didn’t happen? Truth is, there is only one type of guarantee that will protect the consumer, that is the guarantee in writing. I found one of the largest debt settlement companies has just had a class action law suit filed against them for taking payment before the service was provided, additionally has over 700 BBB complaints filed. Attorney Generals nation wide want to protect consumers from wrong doing, and the only way to do that long term is for the debt settlement company to conduct their actions in the best interest of the consumer. No More mortgage can deliver a debt free life with out these risks.

So, a written, signed and dated pre-agreed agreed settlement term on each account seems to be the best option of protection. This seems to be the direction of debt settlement and clearly has the consumers best interest in mind. Given most all conditions the worst that can happen is you end up paying what you owed in the first place.

The problem with fee based debt settlement is that you may still have to pay all of what you owed and have already paid into the debt settlement program, yet the service was not performed. Good luck getting a refund.

Finally, should you feel the need, make sure you have done your home work, and have counted every dime you are going to be charged and how aggressive the settlement team is. So, What to look for in a A Debt Settlement Company, should be clear:

BBB report (should be clean)

IAPDA Certified (Good standing)

Understand that with Debt Settlement your taking many risks that No More Mortgage thinks you should know.

In addition to other risks, You could be sued by yoru creditor. Your credit score will clearly fall, your going to be harrassed by collectors at home and likely work. Perhaps the bill collectors will cal lyoru work and neighbors.

No More Mortgage is NOT a debt settlement firm, they are an educater and structering firm with years of experience in consumer finance.

-
About the Author:
No More Mortgage
Article Source

  • Share/Bookmark

A bit of humor...


Powered By WPHumor

Famous Quotes..


Powered By Famous Quotes

Please Note... All links within articles are placed by their author-owners and not by this blog.Products with in those links may or may not be the best in the world.If it sounds too good to be true it could be a scam.Articles are posted for their info,ideas and or entertainment value only.

Powered By WP Footer

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes