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How To Remortgage a Residential Home To A New Lender
Don’t end up paying more for your monthly mortgage than you need to. If your fixed-term deal has come to an end, or you want to borrow more, or release some cash – shopping around mortgage providers could save you thousands. No-one looks forward to spending hours on the phone to banks o...
NEWS: New Homes To Be 30 Percent Cheaper For Local First Time Buyers
The UK Government is launching a new scheme designed to give first time buyers a leg up onto the property ladder by offering a considerable discount. The “First Homes Scheme” is a new initiative for 2020 which, if successful, could be a huge help for first time buyers who are currently ...
How to get a joint mortgage with a non-UK national partner or spouse
Couples where one partner is not a UK national are often keen to settle in and establish a home in Britain. But getting property finance can be a challenge. We have a strong track record in matching international clients with the lending they need. What are the issues for mixed-nationality couples ...
NEWS: Commercial Property Boom Forecast in 2020
A newly published study from financial specialist Together has predicted that 2020 will be the start of a two-year boom for the commercial property market. Andrew Charley, head of corporate relationships at Together, underlined the growing confidence in business behind this prediction, ...
How to Get A Foreign National UK Mortgage
International investors buying a desirable home in London, or a high-yield rental property in regional UK, face a few more challenges than buyers who are British nationals. An acceptable source currency for your mortgage payments, evidence of the source of your finance, and an estab...
News: Top 5 Property Hotspots for 2020 London Landlords
London property agents have reported that 2020 has kicked off to an excellent start. Activity in the property market has been busier than usual, as we reported earlier in the year in our news blog. Speaking specifically about the London market, experts are noticing a promising upward trend. ...
News: Reported Delays in Home Selling, and How Bridging Loans Can Help
Are you expecting it to take eight and half months for your house to sell? That's the alarming prospect raised by a new study of house sale completion times. Moving house is recognised to be one of the most stressful life events we have to cope. Not least for homeowners waiting for the sale of the...
UK Expat? How To Get an 80 percent LTV Buy To Let Mortgage for a UK Property
You’re brunching poolside in Abu Dhabi or Singapore and thinking: it can’t be too soon to start investing my no-tax (or low-tax) dirhams (or dollars) in property back home. You may already have your eye on an apartment with strong tenant-appeal in Manchester’s Mayfield, or Bi...
News: Upswing in Auction Property Buying in 2019 for Developers
It appears more and more Britons are feeling inspired by Homes Under the Hammer, as Auction House are reporting good numbers for their 2019 sales. Their director confidently projects that this will continue into 2020, which is excellent news for developers or prospective developers looking to expan...
Mixed Use Property? How To Get A Mortgage
Are you considering buying a shop or office premises with a flat above? Or a one-time pub with landlord’s accommodation? You’ll be needing a different type of mortgage finance. Most property owners who are thinking of venturing into property investment for the first time (to generate a ...
NEWS: Top 3 Postcodes for Buy-To-Let in Wales
The Welsh housing market is leading the way in growth of housing prices, and this demand is spilling into the rental market. As of November 2019, house prices in Wales had risen 7.8% higher compared to 2018. Knight Frank Research forecasts that between 2019-2024, the cumulative UK rental growth in ...
What Is Commercial Property Finance? How Much Can You Borrow?
Debt-free is good. But business success requires access to finance so you can seize opportunities, or stay ahead of the market. What is commercial finance? Commercial loan terms can apply to borrowing by individuals or a company to buy commercial premises, or borrowing by businesses. Cautious bus...
NEWS: A Sharp Upturn in London Property Buyer Enquiries
The housing market competition in London is heating up in 2020. Knight Frank are reporting that the registration of buyers interested in London properties saw a sharp spike in the second week in January 2020. January normally sees an increase, this is an unprecedented rise, being 92% higher ...
HMO Mortgages – How To Finance An HMO Property
The ROI returns can be impressive, but only a few specialised intermediary-only lenders will fund a foray into the multi-let market. If you've paid off a mortgage you could now be looking to reinvest in property. Or perhaps success with residential investment or buy-to-lets (BTL) has prompted ...
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Bridging Loans: How Much Can I Borrow?
Do you need a short-term finance solution to inject cash quickly without the waiting time of traditional longer-term borrowing? Wondering how much you would be eligible to borrow? Short-term finance such as bridging loans can be a very helpful form of finance for the right borrower, dependi...
How To Get A UK Expat Buy To Let Mortgage
The last few years have been tough for British expats who want to purchase or remortgage a buy-to-let property in the UK. A number of regulatory changes have affected the buy-to-let mortgage market in the UK, which has have had the effect of reducing the numbers of lenders willing to get involved ...
NEWS: a 2.3 percent Boris Bounce for property developers?
The start of 2020 has kicked off with a noticeable Boris Bounce in the housing market, with the Times reporting that house prices have risen 2.3% rise since polling day in December. Is this a blip, or a new direction of travel for the market? This was predicted by industry experts imm...
Aged 70 Plus? How To Get A Mortgage
Taking on a new mortgage at the age of 75 (or 78, or 80…) might not be how you thought property ownership would look when you first bought a home 30 years ago or more. But for most people retirement doesn’t look anything like it did 30, or even 20, years ago: We have many more...
Bridging loans: how do they work?
Bridging loans are a very useful form of finance for people looking for a short-term loan. They can be really useful for someone looking to "bridge the gap" during a financial transaction. Here at Clifton Private Finance, we specialise in the procurement of bridging loans for borrowers who want to b...
How to remortgage a buy to let portfolio
Changes to tax and regulations mean that landlords’ finance needs to work harder for them to ensure the profitability of their rental property holdings. Good returns aren’t only available to those who "stay small". But the new financial landscape does mean that investment property owner...
How To Get A Property Development Bridging Loan
There are various short-term finance options which could suit your development project. But most of them aren’t available from high street banks, and you won’t find them on price comparison websites. Site availability, good design, a dependable building team with strong projec...
How to get a UK expat mortgage
You're a British citizen currently living and working outside the UK, and earning in a non-sterling currency. But you want to buy property here and take advantage of the exchange rate on the pound, record-low UK interest rates, and good-value property prices. You have long-standing ...
How to get AirBnB buy to let mortgage finance
With UK rental returns shrinking for the first time in five years, BTL landlords are looking at Airbnb-style short-term lets for higher yields. Current Zoopla data shows that the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom flat in London is £1,618, while the same property can earn the same return ...
Online bridging loan calculator: how to get the best short-term finance deal
A bridging loan is now a mainstream form of property finance. The key question is: what are the fees and charges involved, and how much will it cost you? Our online bridging calculator, below, will give you an instantaneous answer, so you can decide if this is a finance option you want to follow up...
Get a bridging loan to buy and renovate a property to sell
Purchasing and developing a property with a view to selling it on can provide healthy returns: if you have affordable finance, buy at the right price, and manage your refurbishment costs carefully. If you don’t have a significant private funds at your disposal and you’ve found...
UK mortgages for South African residents: expats and SA nationals
We can set up property finance for expat British nationals working in South Africa, as well as Britons and South Africans working for SA corporations in the UK and paid in rand, and South African nationals not resident in the UK. The stability and profitability of the British property market has be...
UK mortgages for UK expats in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi nationals
We’re experienced in arranging finance for UK property purchases for British nationals living in Saudi Arabia, and any buyers with income in riyals. Are you: A UK national / British citizen fulltime resident and working in Saudi Arabia and looking for expat finance A UK nation...
British expat? Yes, we can get you a UK mortgage
The work-hard play-hard expat lifestyle is hard to beat. But you probably want to put your earning-power to work in the property market. And your dollars and dirham will go much further in the UK than in most expat relocation hotspots. Whether you're looking for a straight-up investm...
Property development project behind schedule? How to refinance to avoid penalty rates
Good planning and rigorous project management can’t insure against a month of torrential rain, or a key supplier failing to deliver. A third of the UK construction industry professionals surveyed by Cornerstone Projects in 2017 reported delays costing up to 10% of project costs. More t...
Moving To Germany? Use A Bridging Loan To Fund Your Home Purchase Quickly
If you’re relocating to Europe you need to be able to complete a purchase quickly to secure your new home. Waiting for your UK property to sell involves rental, storage and double-removal costs, and makes the whole process more stressful and uncertain. Congratulations on joining the 100,000+ ...
Getting a UK mortgage as a British expat: what are my chances?
When you were in the UK, lenders were tripping over themselves to offer you a mortgage to buy your home. But now you’re living and working overseas (with a higher salary, and a living allowance – thanks!), and you want to remortgage that house. Or you want to buy somewhere in the U...
How To Get A Renovation Mortgage
Home owners and developers should choose the finance for their renovation projects as carefully as they choose the design, their builder, the materials, fixtures and finishes. A finance package that’s too expensive or inflexible will be a frustrating constraint upon your plans, and can have ...
How To Get A UK Mortgage For British Expats Living In Dubai
The sterling buying-power of the dirham combined with a national housing shortage in the UK: the British property market is a natural choice for expats living and working in Dubai who want to lock away some capital and possibly earn rental income. 3 common reasons why people buy UK property while ...
How To Get A Large Mortgage Loan
At the beginning of 2018, almost 3 per cent of the UK’s housing stock came with a price tag of more than a million pounds. Homes and rental properties priced at more than a million pounds used to be described as "luxury". But by 2015, 75,000 new "property millionaires" had been created by pric...
Looking for property finance on the Cote d'Azur? How to access mortgage and short-term development funding
Owning property on the Côte d'Azur, or the French Riviera (as it’s known to the English) buys a share in the most famous address in the world. From Saint-Tropez to Cannes, Juan-Les-Pins, Antibes, Nice, Cap-Ferrat and Monte Carlo, these are the most desirable villas and apartments it's po...
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How To Remortgage Your London Home To A New Lender
The current talk is all of a hike in interest rates. Isn’t it always? Just as we find it hard to enjoy good weather without gloomily forecasting rain, our current tropical holiday of super-low mortgage rates is blighted only by speculation about a rate rise when the Bank of England next meets,...
How To Get A Construction Loan If You Are A First Time Developer
Finance companies exist to lend money to individuals and companies with a view to making the best return possible over the shortest space of time, at the least possible risk. It's their raison d'être. You, likewise, have got a terrific development opportunity that offers a really attracti...
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Buying A Home In London - How To Use A Bridging Loan To Beat The Competition
Competition for house buying in London is cutthroat - even at prices well above the national average. To give themselves the best chance, homebuyers and investors are making use of bridging loans more than ever before. Competition in London is fierce for property London is the plane...
Living in Switzerland? 5 ways we’ll help you with your UK mortgage finance
Don’t pay a penalty because you’re trying to organise a mortgage from Zurich or Geneva. We can arrange the best expat mortgage deals – quickly. Are you: Fulltime resident and working in Switzerland and looking for expat finance Working in Switzerland, part-time resident in the...
Living In Singapore? 4 Ways A UK Expat Can Get A UK Mortgage
Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo – regardless of where you are in Asia right now, if you’re a UK ex-pat and living or working there then investing in UK property will for many be an attractive proposition. Why? Well since the Brexit vote and sterling slumped against the UD dollar, Asian curr...
Mortgages For Multi-Unit Properties
You've got the chance to buy a residential building as a rental property. Do you renovate and let it as one big house-share, or divide it into separate flats? And what are your finance options? The buy-to-let (BTL) property finance industry does love initialisms, so we'll deal with the...
Finance for your barn conversion Q&A: Class Q and full planning
The words barn conversion are now real estate shorthand for "wow-factor" homes in highly desirable rural locations. Imaginative design, big rural views, a combination of heritage structure with modern building aesthetics: open-plan, double-height ceilings, big windows, exposed building features. ...
How To Get Development Finance To Develop Property In London
London is still a city of cranes, scaffolding and builders' skips. The capital’s insatiable demand for housing and new forms of commercial property is fuelling a wide variety of ground-up building projects, and entrepreneurial redevelopment of everything from office blocks and churches to...
UK expat living in Portugal? 4 ways we help with a UK mortgage
Don’t pay a penalty because you’re trying to organise a mortgage from Lisbon or Faro. We can arrange the best expat mortgage deals – quickly. You know you’re in good company: more than 49,000 Britons have relocated for Portugal’s cost of living and quality of life. Bu...
Bridging loan FAQs
Can you get one, how much will it cost, how can you repay it… 8 key questions in our quick guide to short-term property finance. 1. What is a bridging loan? This is a type of short term property finance used to "bridge" a temporary gap in funding: to allow pro...
Equity release: how to get money out of your home in retirement
Homeowners in their 50s and 60s are realising that the cash locked up in the value of their homes is a valuable asset that they need to access now. The idea of "leaving it all to the children" doesn’t have much relevance for today’s "property rich, cash poor" mature homeowners. It's di...
What is top slicing in buy to let mortgage borrowing?
And how can it help your application for a mortgage to buy a rental property? The origin of the term is lost in the mists of time (or charcuterie), but in financial terms it refers to the use of part of a budget to fund another function. In buy to let mortgage calculations many lenders are now all...
Living in Luxembourg? 5 ways we’ll help you with your UK mortgage finance
Don’t pay a penalty because you’re trying to organise a mortgage from Luxembourg. We can arrange the best expat mortgage deals – quickly. Are you: Fulltime resident and working in Luxembourg and looking for expat finance Working in Luxembourg, part-time resident...
Latest Mortgage & Short Term Finance Deals
Autumn is here and its not just the leaves that are falling. We have put together some of the deals that we have recently placed and are currently available to our clients as at 31/10/19: Large Remortgage (Interest Only) 2 Year Tracker: £500k min remortgage £100k min income ...
Finance for overseas London property buyers: 4 reasons why now is the time to buy. And the 3 essential ways we can help
Non-UK citizens are permitted to own property in the UK. In fact they’re welcomed as major contributors to the resurgence of London’s prestige property market. This is in contrast to Australia, for example, where non-residents must get pre-approval from the country’s Foreign Inves...
Can I borrow against a property with no mortgage?
Are you in the happy position of owning your home (or an investment property) outright: you bought with cash, or you’ve fully paid off your mortgage. And now you want to raise some money against the property – to fund another property purchase, or pay for some renovations. Being mortgag...
How to get a second charge mortgage on a buy to let property to raise capital
A recent poll of UK property investors by MT Finance revealed that 80% plan to expand their property portfolios in 2019 - despite a background of Brexit uncertainty and tax-changes squeezing affordability. None of the landlords surveyed said that they planned to reduce their exposure in the UK prop...
UK property owned by an offshore company: we’ll find the mortgage finance you need
Many of our HNW clients use non-UK registered companies, offshore trusts and LLPs as holding vehicles for their UK properties. Their reasons are as varied – and private – as their personal financial circumstances. They are non-dom and "deemed UK domicile" as well as British reside...
How Long Is A Bridging Loan For?
For as long as you need it, and as short a time as possible. This is an expensive form of borrowing which is extremely useful for its intended purposes. It can be arranged quickly and used to plug a property financing gap. But you don’t want to be paying the interest rates for longer tha...
Bridging loans for UK expats
Bridge finance is an extremely useful form of borrowing. Is it available to Britons living overseas? Yes. And we can find you the deals to suit your circumstances. What do you need short-term finance for? The great advantage of bridging finance, compared with long-term mortgage finance, is t...
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Can I Get A Bridging Loan To Pay Inheritance Tax?
Yes – this is precisely the kind of situation where bridge finance can be the solution you need to some of the administrative issues that can make managing probate so stressful. In addition to all the grief and family upset when someone dies, there’s a frustrating Catch 2...
UK Mortgages For Expats In Monaco
Even non-doms want to sleep in their own beds when they do their Christmas shopping in London. And hard-working expats further down the payscale in the principality want to invest their tax-free Euros in a profitable buy-to-let, or a future home back in Britain which comes with a bit more of a back ...
How To Get A Bridging Loan To Purchase A New House
How can a bridging loan help me? A bridge loan is a type of short term finance that can be used to temporarily "bridge" the gap between the sale and purchase of properties. When time is tight, and a vendor is pressing for exchange, a bridging loan provides a solution more quickly than a p...
Living in the Bahamas? 5 ways we’ll help you with your UK mortgage finance
Don’t pay a penalty because you’re trying to organise a mortgage from Freeport or Nassau. We can arrange the best expat mortgage deals – quickly. Are you: Fulltime resident and working in the Bahamas and looking for expat finance Working in the Bahamas, part-...
How to get finance to buy an Uninhabitable property
It’s the bargain of the century: the wreck which could be your dream home. Or it’s a profitable "doer-upper" which you could renovate-and-rent-out, or fix-and-sell. But here’s the catch: the reason that scores of other buyers haven’t beaten you to the sale is that ...
How to get a professional mortgage
Your hard-won qualifications and structured career path can win you 8 money-saving advantages when you’re looking for property finance. Doctors, architects, teachers, pilots… you’ve been sitting exams while your peers have been down the pub. Is there a payoff in terms of mortga...
How To Get A Bridging Loan In Scotland
Peak Scottish house prices reported by the Your Move house price index in November 2018 put house price growth in England, Wales & Northern Ireland into the shade. For homebuyers and investors looking for property opportunities it may be possible to drive a harder bargain&nbs...
How To Get A Barrister Mortgage
Independent barristers present a challenge to mortgage lenders. As a highly qualified professional with excellent income growth potential you’re a borrower they’d like to finance. But as a self-employed practitioner with highly variable monthly income and substantial practice costs, it&...
Secured loan for home improvements using equity in your house
Homeowners can access funding to pay for value-adding home improvements and renovations (or a variety of other purposes) by using the value locked away in their home as security. This can be a flexible and quickly-arranged source of funding for those who can manage the additional borrowing costs. ...
Bridging Loan To Buy A House - Example Of How It Works
If you've found the property you want to buy and need to move quickly, bridging finance is now a mainstream form of finance that a wide range of borrowers find is fast, flexible and can help them make an important purchase. Buying a house with a bridging loan When time is of the...
Can I get a mortgage for 5 or 6 times my salary?
There ARE "monster mortgages" out there, offering maximum borrowings on your earnings. How can you get your hands on one of them? It’s not just hard-pressed first-time buyers who need to maximise the borrowing potential of their salaries, in order to get a toe-hold on the property ladder. Ev...
How to get a fast second charge mortgage
You can access the equity in property you own – your home, a holiday property, a rental property or commercial premises – to raise money for a wide variety of purposes. And this kind of finance can be arranged in a matter of days. How second charge finance can be useful to you A secon...
How To Get A Residential Mortgage On A UK Property If You Are An Expat Or Foreign National
If you're living and working abroad, there may be a number of reasons why you may be looking for finance for a property in the UK For UK Expats - A high percentage of expats retain property in the UK for residential purposes. Family members who are left in the UK need somewhere to live, and ...
Bridging loan interest rates drop to lowest levels as lending rises
Bridging finance is now cheaper than it’s been for the past four years, and the biggest growth in borrowers has been amongst those getting finance secured against their own home, or to finance a future home. Bridging loan interest rates fell to their lowest levels in four years at the beginn...
How does property development finance work
Property developers need finance tailored to the requirements of purchasing a building site and paying for ongoing building works. Funds must be swiftly available when needed, but not sitting unused in the bank, accumulating interest charges before materials need to be purchased or wages paid. It&...
Non-residents buying homes in the UK could be hit with 1 per cent increase in stamp duty
Estate agents are advising British expat and foreign buyers to brace themselves for possible increases of 1% on top of the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) rates for UK residential purchases. A consultation by the UK government on whether to increase the stamp duty payable by non-UK-residents buying resi...
How to get a large mortgage with multiple income sources
If you’re a high earner you expect your income to get you access to substantial property finance on flexible terms. You don't want to be locked into a lender’s standard deposit and repayment conditions, with your borrowing limited because your earnings are "complex." In our experience, ...
Yacht crew mortgage: How to get finance for a UK property
Where do you "live" for the purposes of a UK mortgage application if you work on superyachts? You don’t have to be counted as an "expatriate" and pay higher rates if you’re a seafarer. You’ve managed to outlast the work-hard play-hard junior crew lifestyle and build a career in th...
Living in the USA? 8 ESSENTIAL ways we help British expats get UK mortgages
You’re earning a good USD salary, waving your kids off to school on a yellow bus, and living in a house with a front yard that runs straight down to the sidewalk. To banks in the UK you’re now an "expatriate". What does that mean for getting a mortgage on property in the UK? In this ...
How to get low cost bridging finance for a London property
London property is the most highly stressed market in the UK: highly geared buyers driving prices up during buoyant markets, limited supply creating pressures to prop up wavering buyers’ chains during hesitant markets. Bridge finance is a quickly-accessible, flexible form short-term property ...
Living in Abu Dhabi? 5 ways we’ll help you with your UK mortgage finance
Arranging a mortgage on UK property from the UAE shouldn't be a drama. We can make sure you're on the right rate for your residency criteria, and arrange the best expat or foreign national property finance for you – quickly. Are you: UK national / British citizen fulltime residen...
Mortgages for company directors: how to use company profit to get the size of loan you need
You’re an entrepreneurial business-owner trying to arrange a mortgage. Surely you should be able to count the profit retained in your company towards your mortgage affordability calculations? Or are you a self-employed contractor or freelance professional who manages their work through a limi...
UK Expat in Bahamas? How to get a mortgage on a UK property
Some lenders treat expat tax-free income as though it WOULD be subject to UK tax. And then take off another 25% for "currency fluctuations". Which could leave you hard-pushed to buy a bungalow in Bognor, even on the most generous expat package. Obviously the beaches and sunshine, and the salary pa...
How To Get Commercial Bridging Finance
You’re a successful small-business owner running a busy hairdressing salon. The lease on your premises is coming to an end, and you could be looking at a considerable rent rise, but an ideal location has come up for sale a few doors down. Still on the high street, with high visibility for clie...
How To Secure An Interest Only Mortgage In Retirement
For decades now the goal has always been to pay off the mortgage by the time we reach retirement. But that way of thinking is definitely out of step in today’s society. The world – and certainly the UK - has changed in recent years: elderly property owners are increasingly releasing e...
Mortgages for doctors: finance to suit the medical profession
Significant investment in your career, with training contracts lasting into your mid-30s, diverse career paths and complex earnings… doctors face particular challenges when it comes to applying for mortgages. What are the issues, and how can the right advice help you overcome them...
Property Development Finance on the Isle of Wight
Finding the right finance for a project is one of the main challenges that property developers face - and not least for entrepreneurial property owners on the Isle of Wight. Mainstream lenders can be notoriously conservative, and the width of the Solent is enough to deter many of them for put...
5 Ways To Get Into UK Property Development For The First Time
You’re ready to join the 2.5 million property investors in the UK and build your own share of a sector that’s been delivering reliable returns for the past 20 years. The appeal of tangible bricks-and mortar is obvious for first-time developers: demand from would-be homeowners and prope...
What Is A Bridging Loan ?
How does short-term lending work? Is it the kind of property finance you need, and how can you use it effectively? We answer the essential questions: How does bridge finance work? How much will a bridging loan cost me? Will I be eligible for short-term finance even if I've got a black mark...
How To Get A Business Bridging Loan
As a business if you are looking to complete any commercial transaction you will need readily available finance. Unless you are willing to invest a potentially large percentage of your own capital, it is likely that you will need to apply for additional funding to complete the transaction. Fast ava...
How can I get an interest-only mortgage?
Minimise your monthly payments and free up your cash for other priorities: school fees, supporting a growing business, or other investments. It all sounds very attractive. And increasing numbers of lenders are now offering interest-only mortgages. But is this the right kind of borrowing for y...
Living in Singapore, buying in London? British expats: here’s how to get UK property finance
The hidden costs of expatriate life can jump up to bite you when you go looking for finance on a property back in the UK. Those competitive mortgage rates you see touted online by British high-street banks: not for you, as a non-resident. There’s more paperwork to track down for expats, and ...
Guide to development funding for student accommodation
Student accommodation is a hugely significant sector in the UK property market. £53bn is the predicted value of the PBSA (purpose-built student accommodation) market by the end of 2019, according to Property Week. More than 29,000 additional beds were planned for 2019: almost enough to h...
How to get a loan for an unmortgageable house
Bargain-hunters love unmortgageable properties, packed with potential: competing buyers are frightened off by the difficulties in getting hold of finance. But how can you make sure you don’t get caught in the same trap – committed to buying a house you can’t get a mortgage on (or ...
UK expat mortgage checklist – what documents do I need?
Are you an "expat"? Or do you need a "foreign national mortgage"? We'll find the right property finance for your circumstances, and help you with all the documentation to speed the application process - and get the money in your bank as quickly as humanly possible. I work outside the UK:...
London remortgage activity hits 9-year high
London home owners are hunting for better mortgage deals: remortgage activity in London increased by more than 23% year-on-year in the three months to June this year. The same was also true in Scotland and Wales. At the same time, mortgages for first-time homeowners in London fell by nearly 4% comp...
5 Top Tips For Hong Kong Expats Looking For Mortgages In The UK
1 Keep your UK bank account open and keep it active And keep using your UK credit card. British-based lenders will be looking at your credit rating in the UK: they want to see proof of borrowings and timely repayments. 2 Buying a property sight-unseen isn’t a great idea Issues of location w...
How to get 100 percent JV property development funding
A key success factor in the property development industry is a developer’s access to finance. Many of the most established developers will say that the profit in a project comes in the buying, not the selling. But without the ability to purchase land or development sites quickly, and keep a ...
How much does a bridging loan cost?
Possibly less than you think. And if it buys the property you want, at the right price because you’re able to act quickly, it can save you money. Bridging loan costs are made up from a number of different fees and admin costs that can look a bit sneaky. We’d like it to be less complica...
5 Ways To Get Into UK Property Finance For The First Time
There are now over 2.5 million property investors in the UK, as more and more people consider property development as an affordable and dependable short- or long-term investment for their future. Unlike more intangible investment products (unit trusts, foreign exchange dealing, futures tr...
How To Get A Bridging Loan For A London Property
In the UK’s most competitive property market there’s still a need for fast, flexible financing for property purchases. House prices may be sinking in two out of five London postcodes, but there’s still no time for leisurely buyer chains, or finance companies shilly-shallying around...
How Fast Can I Get a Bridging Loan
With not enough houses in the UK to meet the demand of the ever growing population, it's more competitive than ever for buyers when it comes to securing a desired property. This is an especially frustrating time for people looking to downsize: they often need to move quic...
Kitchen renovations: how to get a loan for UK’s most popular home improvement
Remodelled kitchens and bathrooms, loft extensions and garden makeovers… Which building works add most to the value of your property, and what’s the most cost-effective way to pay for them? The latest research from NAEA Propertymark, the estate agents’ professional body, reveals ...
How to get development exit finance as your building project nears completion
When a property development project is coming towards the end of its agreed term of finance, unexpected delays in finishing the build, or finalising sales, can have a major impact on the cost of your finance and the profitability of your development. Exit finance wins on three counts: it’s ...
How To Get Development Finance For Property In Manchester
From NOMA and Angel Meadows to Ancoats and Murray Mills, Spinningfields and across to Greengate, crane surveys and planning approvals show that the post-2008 development pause is now Green for Go. The mood in the city is buoyant. Manchester developers don’t need Northern Powerhouse pronouncem...
