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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By arranging your home survey directly online - rather than via a mortgage lender - you can save the large chunk of the survey fee that the banks normally keep. They may still want to instruct a valuer to carry out their mortgage valuation, but don’t let them try to sell you an expensive Homebuyer or Building Survey from one of the large, target-driven, corporate firms on their 'panel'.
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