Mortgage Rates Ireland

Mortgage rates increasing - is not something to be expected in these times of falling ECB rates.
Today - Halifax Ireland have increased variable mortgage rates for new customers. Before today’s increase Halifax did have the lowest rates in Ireland - maybe they have decided it was too low. Maybe there was pressure to increase rates in Ireland because of bad publicity in the UK. Halifax is now part of the Lloyds Banking group which was “bailed out” by the UK goverment recently. There was a lot of bad publicity because Halifax were offering lower rates in Ireland than in the UK.
The latest mortgage rates at Halifax Ireland are as follows:
The 2.4% has increased by 0.85% to 3.25% (LTV under 50%) .
The rate previously available for LTVs of 50-75% has risen 0.9% from 2.5% to 3.4% .
The 2.7% rate for LTV 75% to 90% has gone up by 0.85% to 3.55%
All fixed rates available to new customers have also increased by between 0.65% and 0.85% .

See the Best Current Mortgage Rates from lenders in Ireland .