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Advice please for a first time buyer - offset mortgage

Can anyone please give me some advice I am a first time buyer about to get a large mortgage -

now I want an offset mortgage without any penalties because my parents may sell their house and stay with us in a year (but they want to wait a short while before they sell their house to see if there will be enough space in my new house once I get there and make sure there is no problems with it etc)

unfortunately clydesdale bank's new offset has redemption penalties so it would not suit

looking at looking at previous threads on here the best option seems to be Yorkshire banks offset with introductory rate 5.19% until 09/07 then goes to BoE rate + 0.75% (by when i will know if parents are selling and may well have paid off 3/4 of the mortgage) -

the other one I have found myself which looks even better is newcastle BS who offer 4.65% for 6 months then BoE + 0.5% - but I can not find anything about it on these threads - so does anyone have experience of this one or newcastle BS in general?

or can anyone advise on something else?

any advice much appreciated!
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