Recent reports from the mortgage market indicate that Lloyds TSB will pick up customers from struggling mortgage lender Northern Rock . The deal, signed yesterday, will give Lloyds the ability to offer Rock customers a new mortgage loan when they come to the end of their current deal.
The deal will benefit some customers, who will be given the option of a direct switch to a fixed-rate mortgage loan with no valuation or conveyancing fees. The remortgages will be handled by Cheltenham and Gloucester .
However, in order to get the fixed-rate offer borrowers have to be looking for less than 80 per cent of their property value, meaning it will be unavailable to many Northern Rock customers. For instance, those that took out a Northern Rock Together mortgage, often at 125%, are unlikely to qualify.
Some borrowers may be able to borrow upward of the 80% limit, however. Northern Rock are reducing their mortgage customers.





