Britannia Reviews

Having had two mortgages in my life, I can't say I have a full view of the mortgage offerings out there. What I can say is that I would never ever ever recommend Britannia to anyone. Even my worst enemy. I should have realised there would be problems when the original quotation never failed to materialised which is a breach of the mortgage ...  Read the complete review

Mortgage application process was lenghty, manual and due to them losing paperwork had to be done twice!!!! Local office were friendly but ultimately they couldn't deliver the letter of offer within 6 weeks!!! I had to take it up with head office, who have lovely taped music, friendly operators who unfortunatley don't take any ...  Read the complete review

After my offer was accepted a few months ago on a house in london, I choose to go with britannia to provide my mortgage as they offered the best rates at the time ( 2% discount mortage). Initially they said that didn’t need any documentation P60, payslips etc.. and the whole processs should only take 4 – 6 weeks. They approved the ...  Read the complete review

Well, it was the cheapest mortgage at the time. So we bought it. I mean, what else do you need to know? In fact, there's plenty of other things you need to know. Britannia make mistakes frequently. They are reasonably good at correcting them, but not so good at spotting them without a bit of help. It would be nice if they did that ...  Read the complete review

About four years ago I received the annual statement from Sun Life Assurance regarding my mortgage endowment and, being an accountant, I did a few calculations to see roughly what the final figure would be at the end of the term. I was horrified by what appeared to be quite a shortfall in endowment to mortgage outstanding! Since the ...  Read the complete review

We have been with Brittania building society for ten years. And up to now we haven’t had any problems, that was until three months ago, we wanted to change the date our mortgage came out, from the twenty eighth to the twelfth of each month. We phoned our branch and explained, and they said it would be no problem, and what they would do is ...  Read the complete review