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Accord Mortgages is increasing its maximum loan size to £2million on new lending and additional lending between 80% and 85% loan-to-value (LTV)*.

We are withdrawing the current range from Monday 20th July at 8pm and replacing with a new range at 9am Tuesday 21st July with end dates extended to 30th November.

We have updated our stamp duty policy for clients who had stamp duty paid as part of their deal with the developer and are looking to negotiate the stamp duty savings as a cash payment instead.

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Accord Mortgages has enhanced its portability procuration fee, launched new high LTV products for transferring customers and improved its residential portability process making the journey more user-friendly for brokers.

Accord Mortgages has removed all property value restrictions and returned its maximum loan size to £5million for residential and £1million for buy-to-let applications.

We are increasing selected rates at 90% LTV by up to 0.18% (average 0.13%) and withdrawing a 3 year product.

For brokers with clients financially affected by coronavirus (Covid-19), mortgage payment holidays from Accord Mortgages can now be applied for via an online form.

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Following the re-commencement of physical valuations, Accord Mortgages has made a number of significant updates to its lending policies to help support both home buyers and owners.

Accord Mortgages is increasing its maximum loan-to-value (LTV) to 90%..

We've made the decision to bring forward some planned changes to our new and additional Residential lending criteria.

Selected rates will be reduced across the range (75% to 85% LTV) by up to 0.10%. We are also reintroducing cashback at 80% and 85% LTV.

Whilst brokers may be missing the physical presence of their Accord Business Development Manager (BDM) their product expertise and criteria knowledge is still being shared with advisers across the UK, albeit virtually.

All product codes are being refreshed to ensure correct reversionary rates are applied to all new business residential products following the SVR reduction on Sunday 19th April.

We're extending our residential product range and increasing selected rates

To ensure you can continue to support your clients, we wanted to update you on the measures we are taking to ensure we can offer the best possible service in these unique circumstances.

Updates:

• New lending policies
• BOE Base rate change

The current range will be withdrawn on Wednesday 11th March at 8pm and replaced at 9am Thursday 12th March with end dates extended to 31st July.

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