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Starting The Search For Your New Home – Home Buyer Tips
Starting your search It has never been easier to search for property. The estate agents’ website Rightmove.co.uk have a virtual online monopoly, claiming that as many as 90 per cent of estate agents list their offerings with them. But there are several other sites...
Tips On Finding The Right Property – Home Buyer Guide
Finding the right property Choosing a new home sounds like fun. Snooping around other people’s houses promises at the very least to provide hours of cheap entertainment (judging by the number of TV shows devoted to the subject). But the potential for enjoyment is...
Thinking Of Buying Your Council Home – Read Here First!
Want to buying your Council home? If you currently live in social housing, you may be able to buy your home at a generous discount. If you live in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, you can apply to buy your council house if it’s your only or main home and you’ve had...
Shared equity schemes – What are they and what’s available
Shared equity schemes - What are they and what is available to you? Help To Buy This is an ’equity loan scheme’ where the Government stumps up interest-free loans of up to 20% of the property’s value, allowing you to buy with a deposit of only 5%. The scheme only...
How To Make The Right Choice When Picking Mortgage
Comparing Mortgages To Get The Best Deal For You Having selected the type of mortgage that would be right for your particular circumstances, the next step is to come up with a shortlist of banks and building societies that can offer a suitable product. But when...
Location, location, location – The 3 L’s of buying a house
Thanks to TV property gurus Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsop there can hardly be a living man, woman or child in the entire country who is unaware of the fact that location is the single most important factor when buying property. In fact deciding where you want to...
Paying off your Mortgage? You have options!
Its payback time! No not that kind of payback, mortgage payback time. What are your options? We walk you through our most favoured approaches... Right now, worrying about how you are ultimately going to pay back your mortgage at some point in the distant future...
Choosing The Right Type Of Mortgage – Which mortgage package works for you?
There are several key factors to consider when picking the right mortgage – the interest rate you pay, the number of years the mortgage will run, and how you plan to pay it off. But mortgage products are rarely what they seem. As a rule, the small print will be packed...
Selecting The Right Mortgage Broker – How do you choose?
Suddenly every second person you meet seems to be a mortgage expert. Even solicitors sometimes boast a financial services division. But in the financial ocean, there are plenty of sharks circling, having scented blood from many miles away. So where do you look for...
Financing Your Home – Borrowing money for your new home
Would you lend money to…you? Most of us would think twice about lending money even to our dearest friends if we knew they had a history of absconding without payment. The same holds true for banks – with the notable exception of the US sub-prime lending fiasco, which...