Standard Variable Rate (SVR)

A Standard Variable Rate (SVR) is a rate of interest that you’ll move onto when your current fixed or discounted deal ends. This means that payments can increase or decrease according to changes in interest rates. Standard Variable rate will be determined by your lender and doesn’t track the Bank of England base rate. Your lender has the option to follow or not follow if the base rate increased or decreased.

Mortgage lenders may also increase or decrease their SVR at any time, not only when the Bank of England changes the base rate.

If you don’t switch your mortgage to another fixed rate at the end of your previous fixed rate period, you’ll move onto our Standard Variable Rate.  Your payments will increase and decrease in line with the changes to the Standard Variable Rate.

You can refix your interest rate at any time when you’re on our Standard Variable Rate. You’ll need to have a minimum of two years remaining on your mortgage term.

If you’d like to discuss your options with an independent financial adviser you can contact them directly, and we’ll pay them a fee for helping you. We’ll liaise with your financial adviser and get in touch with you to confirm you’d like to go ahead following a review of your new mortgage offer.

If you know which mortgage deal you’d like and don’t want advice from a financial adviser, you can apply for a rate switch on an execution only basis. Please get in touch using the contact details below and we’ll provide a rate switch application form and execution only declaration.

Phone: 0800 731 4076
Email: retentionsupport@hodge.co.uk

If your payments have increased and you feel they’ve become unaffordable, please contact us and we’ll do our best to provide helpful information and options that may be available to you.