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Name: Fixed Rate Mortgage
Rating: 3.62 (86 reviews)

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3.49

Based on 86 reviews, last reviewed 3rd Jan 2025

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Latest highest rating:

4

Helpful banking Good product very friendly very helpful and answer all queries. Easy easy to move from one product to another and re-mortgage. Easy to track on the ap... Read more Reviewed on: 24th May 2024

Latest lowest rating:

1

Do not use Barcleys, not to be trusted Got a redemption value to pay mortgage off 11th December, paid within one hour, App showed all correctly, then Barcleys took another direct debit on 1... Read more Reviewed on: 3rd January 2025

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Barclays is a financial provider offering a range of products and services, including fixed rate mortgages. A fixed rate mortgage has a set interest rate for a specific period of time, usually between two and five years, but sometimes up to ten. If you have any questions about a mortgage, always ask the lender or an independent advisor.

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Barclays Fixed Rate Mortgage reviews (86)

Review of the Barclays, Fixed Rate Mortgage:

They nearly cost me my flat, and moving out of home

Sadly my first home was above shops, so limited me in choices of companies. Barclays was the cheapest of the two options. Whilst arranging a mortgage, the whole home purchase process ground to a halt. Barclays were not progressing the mortgage application. It took me, the estate agents, several friends, both sides solicitors, the developer and my mortgage advisor calling them non-stop for 4 days, to eventually get through to someone. Barclays had asked for my flats Royal Mail address, and the address including floor number (which we don't use in the UK). These didn't match and they silently stopped progressing my mortgage as these two different addresses, that they asked for, didn't match. I was incredibly stressed and depressed that my chance to move out of home was on the line, as there wasn't much time left to exchange. Later after thankfully moving in, I opened a bank account with them, but this hid my mortgage account and I couldn't pay my mortgage. They had to wipe my profile and rebuild everything. And when I later closed the account a few years later, my mortgage disappeared again... Finally part redemption mortgage overpayments with them require a separate payment of 3x your mortgage cost. This made overpaying them a slow process. I have never been so angered and upset by any other company. Reviewed on: 4th September 2024

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 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

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 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

Easy to switch mortgage

Best in market, really simple to switch Reviewed on: 28th December 2019

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

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 - 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

Complete waste of time and money, will promise the world and then withdraw last minute

Do take note of the poor reviews, I can assure people that they are well founded. We were approved after formal application and valuation was complete. Then the underwriters changed their mind. Have lost my dream house due to their incompetence. Reviewed on: 6th June 2019

Go to another more flexble lender

Barclays unwilling to port, change or increase loan without losing my current deals Reviewed on: 23rd May 2019

NEVER get a barclays mortgage

I transferred my mortgage to Barclays, that part was easy, every other step has been horrifically painful. Logging into the account is painful, speaking to someone (with their six security questions) has been painful. Paying my mortgage off so I dont have to speak to them again has been painful. Im a normal person with a normal mortgage, nothing special, I would actively recommend against taking a mortgage out with Barclays/Woolwich. Reviewed on: 28th April 2019

Help to Buy Mortgage

Barclays offered the most competitive 5 Yr Fixed Rate Mortgage for Help To Buy homeowners Reviewed on: 15th April 2019

Bank not transparent with their lending criteria

The bank did not disclose at the outset what type of property they would not lend on. Basically if their surveyor did not like the decor then he would give a bad report and the bank would not lend. All this and 4 months of them faffing about with the application and having told us its 99% certain that they would lend us the finance, and we had spent money on legal fees, private surveys etc based on their assurances. Very very unfair. Reviewed on: 9th February 2019

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