Six of the rates on our panel, on one house.

Every figure below is the same case: a £284,500 house, a £28,450 deposit, a 25-year term. The only thing that changes between the rows is the rate, and the monthly payment is solved from the annuity, not quoted from a leaflet.

LenderProductRateMax LTV Product feeMonthly
Ardleigh Building Society 5-year fixed 4.19% 90% £999 £1,379
Northmoor Bank 5-year fixed 4.31% 90% £499 £1,396
Crayle Mutual 2-year fixed 4.48% 90% none £1,420
Pentland Direct 5-year fixed 4.63% 90% none £1,442
Sarum Trust 5-year fixed 4.91% 90% £1,495 £1,483
The client's own bank 5-year fixed 5.34% 90% none £1,548

The bottom row is what this client was offered by the bank they already held a current account with. Over the full term, after the fix ends and that case rolls onto an 8.24% variable rate, it costs £140,108 more in interest than the top row does: £302,782 against £162,673.

What the ten-year position looks like

AtOutstanding, our rateOutstanding, their bankDifference
year 2 £243,943 £245,726 £1,782
year 5 £223,774 £228,022 £4,248
year 10 £184,614 £200,242 £15,628
year 15 £135,910 £158,358 £22,448
year 20 £75,336 £95,210 £19,873

The control, and why it is here

Every photograph on this site is graded by the share of the house its client owns at that point in the term, which is the treatment's only parameter. Below is the year-ten plate beside the identical frame with no grade applied at all, so the grade can be checked rather than taken on trust. scripts/plates.mjs asserts both off the shipped files.

A row of bay-fronted terraced houses, graded at a third of full colour
Graded, year ten. chroma at 35.1% of full, the share owned here
The same row of bay-fronted terraced houses, ungraded
The control. Same frame, no grade. ungraded control, the same frame with no equity applied

Ask us to run your own case and we will send the same two tables back with your numbers in them.