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About Platform
Platform was an intermediary-only mortgage lender and a subsidiary of The Co-operative Bank. It was launched in 2003 as a result of a merger between Britannia Building Society-owned lenders Platform Home Loans and Verso, and became a part of The Co-operative Bank when it merged with Britannia six years later.
The Platform subsidiary has since been renamed and its products are now offered under its parent company’s new ‘Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries’ brand.
As an intermediary-only lender, Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries is well placed to offer mortgages with greater flexibility than high street banks. Their deals can only be accessed through a mortgage broker, like the independent mortgage specialists at Teito.
What type of mortgages do they offer?
The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries offers the following types of mortgages:
- First-time buyer mortgages
- Mortgages for homemovers
- Remortgages
- Interest-only mortgages
- Buy-to-let mortgages
- Professional mortgages
Customers with an existing Platform mortgage can apply to switch to a current Co-operative Bank mortgage when their introductory rates period is due to end, and there is a section dedicated to this on the lender’s website. They can, however, consider other lenders too.
The lender’s residential mortgage range includes 2, 3 and 5-year fixed-rate deals for purchase and remortgage customers, as well as lifetime tracker mortgages.
Its buy-to-let mortgage line features 2 and 5-year fixes, plus 2-year trackers.
What interest rates are available?
Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries' residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates are competative with the deals available from other intermediary-only lenders and generally lower than what is available from specialist mortgage providers.
You can compare their rates and deals with more than 90 other lenders from across the market, or have one of our brokers do it for you, below: