Bank of Ireland increase differential on tracker rates

Bank of Ireland increase differential on tracker rates

10:32 AM, 28th February 2013, About 12 years ago 1862

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The story of the Bank of Ireland decision to increase to the differential (interest rate margin) on  tracker mortgages started on this forum when a professional landlord contacted Property118 within minutes of a letter from Bank of Ireland landing on his door mat. What ensued was outrage from landlords and affected residential mortgage borrowers. The story was quickly picked up by the National Media as it wasn’t just the 13,500 affected borrowers who were worried.

Will this set a precedent for other mortgage lenders to follow?

Property118 reacted by using funds donated to The GOOD Landlords Campaign to underwrite the cost of a barristers opinion on the legality of the Bank of Ireland’s actions. The remainder of this thread,one of the most read and most commented threads of all time on Property118, continues to tell the story as it unfolds.

If you want to skip the story and cut to the chase simply CLICK HERE

Of the 13,500 affected borrowers, 1,200 have had the decision reversed by Bank of Ireland. With additional support and pressure we believe all affected borrowers can and will see justice done.

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Lee, a professional Landlord asks, “help! I have just received a letter from the Bank of Ireland stating they want to increase the differential on my tracker rates.

I have 12 mortgages with the Bank of Ireland previously Bristol and West. I have been on a base rate tracker of 1.75% above base, but now Bank of Ireland are using some fine print claiming they have to recapitalise and saying the ‘new differential will be 4.49%.

How can I fight back?”

The original policy wording seems to be:

6 INTEREST

Charging interest at a tracker rate

(j) Unless we change the differential (if any) under condition 6 (n), we will not change the tracker rate unless the base rate changes.

(m) in condition 6 (n):
– a “positive differential” means a percentage which we add to the base rate to arrive at the tracker rate; and a “negative differential” means a percentage which we subtract from the base rate to arrive at the tracker rate.

(n) We may reduce a positive differential or increase a negative differential at our discretion by giving you not less than seven days written notice. This means that we can change the differential in a way that is favourable to you.

The above seems to indicate that they can reduce the rate in my favour, but not give them the right to increase it. Am I correct?


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Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118

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11:17 AM, 16th February 2014, About 11 years ago

When you log on you can tick a box so that every time you look again you don't need to log on again.

Also, when you have posted once it does notify you when others post comments. It only sends one notification though until you log in again so you may find there are several new posts if you leave it for a while. I will have a word with our IT people and ask them if they can fix it so that everybody gets notified of new comments whether they have left one themselves or not. Problem is we keep making these tweaks and we are now over budget by quite a lot. We bedgeted £400 + VAT for both secure forums and so far we have spent nearly double that because of all the tweaks we keep making. There is still money in the marketing fund but I don't want to keep raiding that fund for this purpose unless I absolutely have to. We needs funds for my next visit to Westminster because we will be expected to pay for lunches etc. next time around and MP's will not settle for a Makkie D's!
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11:19 AM, 16th February 2014, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Mark Alexander" at "16/02/2014 - 11:17":

PS - everybody who instructed and paid Justin first time around plus all new people who have instructed and paid or existing people who have paid the extra amount have been invited to join the new forum.
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11:30 AM, 16th February 2014, About 11 years ago

Hi Mark /Paul/ folks

Having sold the property which was subject to the tracker mortgage with additional interest charges in the £100-£200 bracket I'm afraid that I simply cannot justify the expense of joining in a group action. I do have other issues with BOI & currently looks like 3 complaints to the Ombudsman with a further 3 pending. If this particular site continues to operate I will of course dip in - with your permission- & if anything interesting comes up I'll be more than happy to share it.

Regards to all

ian

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16:41 PM, 19th February 2014, About 11 years ago

If or when we win in court doe's the Boi need a good legal argument for an appeal. ?

Lucy McKenna

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20:01 PM, 19th February 2014, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "ian " at "19/02/2014 - 16:41":

I'd love to know the answer to this. I think in criminal courts new evidence has to come to light for their to be an appeal but I think in civil courts you can just appeal, which is the unfair advantage that the rich companies have.

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2:00 AM, 20th February 2014, About 11 years ago

As I understand it an appeal by either side would have to be on the basis that the judge had misinterpreted the law or applied it incorrectly.

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7:27 AM, 20th February 2014, About 11 years ago

In crminal cases the appeal can be against conviction or sentence or both. Also when someone has been convicted and new evidence comes to light such as a new witness or DNA then an appeal can be made on this basis. In civil csses there has to be an argument for an error in law for an appeal to be lodged.

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10:22 AM, 21st February 2014, About 11 years ago

For me to take a day of work to go to the meeting, what exactly is going to be said that cannot be said on the secure forum ? If there's nothing much to learn from it, then id rather put my costs towards court case.

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10:37 AM, 21st February 2014, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "ian " at "21/02/2014 - 10:22":

Is there a Bank of Ireland meeting? If so please tell me where and when

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10:37 AM, 21st February 2014, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "ian " at "21/02/2014 - 10:22":

Is there a Bank of Ireland meeting? If so please tell me where and when

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