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Seafarer / Non-Standard Mortgage App?

thirtytoseventy · 2016-11-16 12:38:22

Hello All Lurker here, just seeing if anyone has any specialist know-how or similar experience to my situation. I work away at sea, UK company, resident h ere and do my tax returns here. Paid in £, monthly, but it's not an evergreen contract i.e. I get paid when I work. However, it's a permanent employment on rolling…

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ACG Posts: 24,646 Forumite

17 July 2017 at 3:13PM

I have not done many seafarer mortgages so would not class myself as a specialist broker in anyway, but I have placed one recently on the high street.

Rates are unlikely to be as good as Barclays as Barclays tend to be quite compeittive at the minute, but it can be done. If you are just switching products, there should be no affordability assessments with Barclays should there? I try to avoid Barclays as they are not easy to work with, so I do not know their stance very well.

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