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We charge certain fees in connection with mortgages. These are set out below and, unless we state otherwise, can change from time to time. We will send you information about these fees each year (except where there have been no changes and no new fees introduced). We will also notify you of any changes in fees at the time when you ask for or receive the service for which we charge the fee. Further details of the fees we charge can be found on our website at www.halifax.co.uk/mortgages

An asterisk* indicates fees that are not applicable if you were charged a mortgage account fee on completion of your mortgage, or if we have not charged the mortgage account fee because of the product(s) you chose. If we charged a mortgage account fee we will have told you in your mortgage offer. This fee covers the setting up, routine maintenance and closing down of the mortgage account.

Service or application fee

Fees

*If we charge a repayment administration fee, we will tell you the amount of the fee and whether it is variable in your most recently accepted mortgage offer, further advance offer or mortgage product transfer offer. The amount of the fee, if applicable, will also be shown in your annual mortgage statement and in any amount owing statement we issue. We will also tell you the amount of the fee at any time you ask us to. This fee will be waived if the mortgage has run its full term (including any agreed extension and/or term applicable to any further advance).

Mortgage advance by CHAPS or cheque

£30

Full copy of title documents, plans, etc

£35

Single copy of document or provision of title information

£17.50

Consenting to transactions - for example, release from the mortgage of part of the property, grant of easement (for example, a right of way) or consent to legal documents

£75

Completing questionnaires or references sent by other lenders granting another mortgage

£100 inc VAT

Payment of ground rent/service charges/shared ownership rent

£75

Transfer of mortgaged property (transfer of ownership) adding and/or removing name(s) to/from the mortgage

£160

Arrangement fee for further advances or home cash reserve

£99

Revaluation fee for further advances or home cash reserve:

Property value not exceeding

£150,000

£108

£200,000

£128

£300,000

£165

£400,000

£200

£500,000

£233

Please contact us if the property value exceeds £500,000

Property re-inspection fee

£70

Arrangement fee for increasing reserve for flexible mortgage

£125

*Deeds Despatch Fee

£50

In addition, you may have to pay any fees, costs or charges we have to pay to third parties in connection with your mortgage, for example, any land registry fees we incur in closing down your mortgage.

If an early repayment charge is due, it is shown in the mortgage offer.


The following fees may apply depending on the conduct of an account:

Missed or returned payments (e.g. under Halifax Payment Plan/Direct Debit, or if a cheque is returned)

£35

Arrears (action taken)

Each telephone call and/or each letter requesting payment

£35

Where is becomes necessary to instruct an external debt counsellor any costs paid to the counselling agency will be debited to your mortgage which would be no more than £100 per visit

£100

If we instruct solicitors to collect arrears or seek possession

£125

*If we send title deeds to our solicitors to help prepare for court action

£50

If we take the mortgaged property into possession

£350

In addition, borrowers will have to pay any costs we pay to third parties that we may instruct to recover any money owed to us or to create or protect our security or in using our legal rights. Examples of costs we pay include:

  • Solicitor's charges
  • Possession management fees

We will write to advise borrowers before we instruct a third party.

Our tracker rate mortgages are linked to Bank of England bank rate (also known as Bank of England repo rate). Details of this rate can be found on the Bank of England website at www.bankofengland.co.uk or in the Financial Times or other leading newspapers.

For independent information on mortgages, visit the FSA website 'money made clear'.

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