Traumatic experience with Barclays mortgage

I applied for a mortgage from Barclays as a first time buyer. The experience has been horrendous and thanks to its very incompetent mortgage team I'm going to lose the property. The seller is fed up with the length of time this is taking when my solicitor Read more

I applied for a mortgage from Barclays as a first time buyer. The experience has been horrendous and thanks to its very incompetent mortgage team I'm going to lose the property. The seller is fed up with the length of time this is taking when my solicitor sent all the paperwork related to the survey of the house around the 15th of Feb. Two months down the line this hasn't been sectioned. A complaint has been put through and even the complaint department didn't botherered to give me a ring when it was agreed through a text message. The stress and upset this is causing me is beyond belief. An absolute lack of respect to a customer. Never use Barclays as your lender

Reviewed on 13th April 2022

Paloma Soroa

Appalling Customer service from Barclays

Appalling customer service from Barclays Bank. As a current customer I was told I could port my mortgage at my current rate, and refund my earlier payment fee of nearly £8000, following the sale of my previous home. Due to their horrendous customer servi Read more

Appalling customer service from Barclays Bank. As a current customer I was told I could port my mortgage at my current rate, and refund my earlier payment fee of nearly £8000, following the sale of my previous home. Due to their horrendous customer service the 90 day period elapsed and have now had to remortgage costing me an extra £200 a month and losing over £8000. I am now 8 weeks down the line applying for a new mortgage and still no final offer, no feedback and when I managed to speak to them, my case has been passed around to 4 different advisors and a manager. The most recent excuse was they had lost the valuation, then when they managed to find it, there were IT issues attaching this to my case, with another further 3 weeks delay. I am now facing losing my property as the sellers are sick of hearing the different excuses and in such a competitive markets, this will probably cost me more money to find a new one.. The stress and upset is beyond belief. Can I suggest no one uses Barclay bank, as I now have no where to live due to short term rental running out and if this doesn’t complete, it will have cost me thousands!! If anyone from Barclays Senior leadership teams see’s this comment please help me!!!! If I lose my property the next steps are to seek legal advice and seek compensation. From a Very disgruntled customer.

Reviewed on 12th April 2022

Tracey Pelham

Appalling customer service, communications and mortgage process

Barclays Mortgages seem to attract either 5* or 1* reviews; it’s down to luck as to whether your mortgage application goes through a competent or incompetent mortgage team. My application for a 18% LTV fixed rate mortgage should have taken just 5 days on Read more

Barclays Mortgages seem to attract either 5* or 1* reviews; it’s down to luck as to whether your mortgage application goes through a competent or incompetent mortgage team. My application for a 18% LTV fixed rate mortgage should have taken just 5 days on a fast track route; 7 weeks later it is still sitting with the underwriter. Try as he might, my broker cannot get a coherent answer from Barclays as to the cause of the delay. One day he’ll be told it’s a technical issue, but the next person he deals with says it is not. My seller is so fed up with the lack of progress that he is threatening to remarket the property to someone who can proceed immediately
Of note, Barclays is the only mainstream lender not to have a phone line to a responsible individual; all communication is by email or web chat, with the respondents being based in India. My experience so far, is of a lender with an incompetent team who simply don’t care.
This is the second time in 6 years that I have attempted to get a Barclays mortgage, but the last time I will be let down in this way. I fully expect to lose the property we have been waiting 9 months to buy, solely due to Barclays’ incompetence and disinterest.
My advice is not to be tempted by Barclays low interest rate, but instead, apply to the next best lender.

Reviewed on 21st March 2022

lesleylintonbon@hotmail.co.uk

It could not be more frustrating to do the basics with Barclays

Terrible customers service, terrible online banking - they take your money and care about nothing else

Reviewed on 4th January 2022

James Peach

Fair interest, friendly service

As a first time buyer, we expected to pay a higher interest rate so were pleasantly surprised with our offer from Barclays. The mortgage process was completely straight forward and all completed quickly. I had to call to change our bank details and the cu Read more

As a first time buyer, we expected to pay a higher interest rate so were pleasantly surprised with our offer from Barclays. The mortgage process was completely straight forward and all completed quickly. I had to call to change our bank details and the customer service agent was extremely helpful and polite. Very happy overall.

Reviewed on 31st August 2021

Ely74

Absolutely brilliant

Staff were brilliant quick service and would highly recommend them

Reviewed on 15th June 2021

Derek

Good rates, fair T&Cs, excellent responsiveness

They have a variety of competitive mortgage products and there are no hidden catches. Everything is clear and the terms and conditions are fair. The mortgage adviser is helpful, knowledgeable, efficient and responsive. I have had two mortgages with Barcla Read more

They have a variety of competitive mortgage products and there are no hidden catches. Everything is clear and the terms and conditions are fair. The mortgage adviser is helpful, knowledgeable, efficient and responsive. I have had two mortgages with Barclays and was able to port my discontinued lifetime tracker to my new property and then take a new product for the rest. I refer all my friends and employees to Barclays.

Reviewed on 4th June 2021

Mark Clayton

Excellent

Barclays have gone above and beyond to help us throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

Reviewed on 23rd February 2021

Sophie

Good range of products and services

Barclays offer a good range of mortgage products at very competitive rates.

Reviewed on 17th February 2021

Macone

Good customer service

We have our mortgage with barclays and its been 1 and half years Very good experience

Reviewed on 17th February 2021

Jogy

Been great this year

Been so flexible through the pandemic. I excellent service at a tough time

Reviewed on 16th February 2021

kelliem88@googlemail.com

Appalling mortgage process

Every single step of my mortgage review was as painful as they could possibly make it. It has been over 14 weeks since I started my application and process and I am still waiting on completion. Customer service provide no use only being able to read an ol Read more

Every single step of my mortgage review was as painful as they could possibly make it. It has been over 14 weeks since I started my application and process and I am still waiting on completion. Customer service provide no use only being able to read an old dated comment From my application that’s very brief Rather than an actual update and that’s after holding on their phone lines for over an. Hour and half. The whole structure of the department is baffling. I think over 20 different people must have worked on the application given the amount of times Iv been told it had to be sent to another department for review, every small step of the way I have to wait 5 working days for anything to be done, that includes for someone to read and pass it onto someone else! Overall it is just truly shocking and I won’t ever look to remortgage with them.

Reviewed on 6th February 2021

lizziegreenman@icloud.com

Complete mess, Clown Employees, Monkey org

If you want to lose chance of buying your dream house then go with Barclay otherwise don't even think about it. Over 2 months of my application and no one knows what is happening and none of the clowns sitting in call centers are willing to help.

Reviewed on 6th January 2021

janjua jee

Completely inept employees

As a first time buyer it should be a pretty straight forward process for me, but it wasn’t, the people Barclays hire are completely incompetent at their jobs, we were consistently lied to for 3 months over a document that wasn’t sent out (they told us rep Read more

As a first time buyer it should be a pretty straight forward process for me, but it wasn’t, the people Barclays hire are completely incompetent at their jobs, we were consistently lied to for 3 months over a document that wasn’t sent out (they told us repeatedly they had) on top of all this, they decided to audit the mortgage application after they were delaying us constantly for around 4 months, this adding another couple of weeks on the the completion date. Please use another company other than Barclays, as soon as I can I will be cutting ties with this company and looking elsewhere. Seems they hire anyone and everyone who really shouldn’t be employed in any capacity.

Reviewed on 15th December 2020

Reece Scholes

Dealing with them after a bereavement

It took over 6 months for the mortgage team to sort out the account, even though the bereavement team has passed on all of the information required, twice. There was a series lack of communication and so much red tape. I was passed from department to Read more

It took over 6 months for the mortgage team to sort out the account, even though the bereavement team has passed on all of the information required, twice.

There was a series lack of communication and so much red tape. I was passed from department to department and no one could help. In what was a very distressing time anyway, having to deal with this for 6 months (whilst still getting letters addressed to the deceased) was overwhelming.

I really hope that my complaint has made them reevaluate their processes as I would hate for someone else to experience what I went through

Reviewed on 13th August 2020

Maria

used as a internal excerise i feel....

Went through the usual mortgage info gathering routine gave over all they needed......and more... complied with all requests..i honestly feel they know more about me now than i do or gchq and mi5/6....i have an a1 credit rating little debt ..even 2 pr Read more

Went through the usual mortgage info gathering routine gave over all they needed......and more... complied with all requests..i honestly feel they know more about me now than i do or gchq and mi5/6....i have an a1 credit rating little debt ..even 2 properties with 50% ltv on each ....all good they said....Then as always they decided to move the goal posts and say no after saying yes its in the bag 100% i have had my time completly waisted for the own selfish internal needs .....i feel exhausted and used by barclays mortgage dept ....

Reviewed on 17th June 2020

rc

Unexplained repayment terms

I have a BTL mortgage and wanted to repay some of the loan value and reduce the repayment term. Barclays suggested paying down the maximum without incurring any penalties. Great I thought, until they conveniently forgot to mention to me that if you pay Read more

I have a BTL mortgage and wanted to repay some of the loan value and reduce the repayment term. Barclays suggested paying down the maximum without incurring any penalties. Great I thought, until they conveniently forgot to mention to me that if you pay more than 3 months worth of your usual monthly mortgage payment, they reduce your new monthly amount, BUT the term of the mortgage remains the same. I feel like Barclays were not transparent or clear enough at the time when I made my enquiries and should have been more honest. I wouldn't have even thought to ask them whether they had some sort of '3 month rule'. Lesson learnt! I will be moving to another lender now, once my term with Barclays is up in a few months time and will have cleared a big chunk of my mortgage. I wouldn't recommend Barclays. They are sneakyand dishonest.

Reviewed on 6th March 2020

Teaandbiccies

Easy to switch mortgage

Best in market, really simple to switch

Reviewed on 28th December 2019

Rebecca Chapman

Good Foxed rate mortgage

I've used Barclays for over 25 years. They have good: - online access - telephone support - personal loans - mortgages - high street branches All which I have and used.

Reviewed on 5th November 2019

Macone

Evil & calculating institution

I hav gave no stars because - having banked with Barclays for 30 years, borrowed & repaid them thousands of pounds without 1 late payment, my experience of the mortgage application made me feel physically sick. They had me on the phone for nearly 2 hours Read more

I hav gave no stars because - having banked with Barclays for 30 years, borrowed & repaid them thousands of pounds without 1 late payment, my experience of the mortgage application made me feel physically sick. They had me on the phone for nearly 2 hours - I was only looking for a small mortgage- despite them having good mortgage deals on the net they eventually offered me a rate a quarter more than them rates & after asking me what my budget was they made sure eventually that they took me right up to the top of my budget. They are sneaky snakes & I would advise avoiding them where mortgages are concerned.

Reviewed on 4th November 2019

Katrina