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Any advice on which mortgage lenders are best for Shared Ownership properties?

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  • kenshaz
    kenshaz Posts: 3,155 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
  • Flomay_2
    Flomay_2 Posts: 17 Forumite
    Thank you for your replies.

    Graduate network are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (and i've just checked the FSA link). They specialise in share to buy mortgages but also deal with SO. Whilst the key facts illustration for the Woolwich mortgage says 95%, GN have told us that with shared ownership it’s actually 100% and our AiP is on that basis.

    From what everyone is saying, I guess our limited range of choices from them was due to our lack of deposit. It seems unlikely we'd get a better offer than 5.69% (decided to go for fixed as we still have some debts to pay off and this mortgage comes with £500 cashback too) with no deposit given that few lenders will lend on our circumstances. Still i probably should visit an IPA just to be sure.

    i'm just excited about having everything in place and want to move asap (and definitely before our wedding in May!!)
  • MortgageMamma
    MortgageMamma Posts: 6,686 Forumite
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    Good luck with everything!
    I am a Mortgage Adviser

    You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a mortgage adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.
  • Flomay_2
    Flomay_2 Posts: 17 Forumite
    Thanks - trying to not get over excited or stressed!
  • payless
    payless Posts: 6,957 Forumite
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    long time since I did one, but NW used to allow no cash deposit , so long as they had first charge over the full property
    Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as (financial) advice.
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