No Stamp Duty for first time buyers – Contractor Mortgages

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No Stamp Duty

The Halifax has launched a mortgage with no stamp duty for first time buyers.

Stamp duty acts as a significant barrier for potential homeowners. So, Chancellor George Osborne is under pressure to do something in his budget to help cash strapped first time buyers and movers with this most hated tax. Contractor friendly Lender Halifax have taken matters in to their own hands. They have launched a headline grabbing offer for first time buyers.

If you are purchasing a property up to the value of £250,000, you won’t need to pay stamp duty on certain mortgage rate schemes. So, this could reduce your buying costs by as much as £2,500. If your chosen property is under £125,001 then Halifax will pay £250 cash back. This is despite the fact that your property wouldn’t be liable for stamp duty tax.

Halifax have run similar schemes in the past that have helped over 14,000 first time buyers onto the ladder. So the Lender is expecting to see similar figures this time. If other lenders jump on the bandwagon then Osborne may end up with little say in the matter. The market would rally to allow thousands more buyers to purchase without stamp duty costs.

The real cost of stamp duty

Each year, more and more first time buyers are being pushed in to the stamp duty bracket as house prices edge up.

According to LSL, the average purchase price for first time buyers in January was £155,832. This was 16.4% higher than the same time last year.

In line with this increase in house prices, the average deposit that a first time buyer must save has also risen. It is now £500 higher at £27,519. This represents 75.1% of a first time buyer’s income. This is according to figures released in January 2014. So saving extra funds to cover stamp duty adds a huge additional financial burden and could delay a potential purchase.

Figures from TSB suggest that 22% of first time buyers don’t take the cost of stamp duty into account when they make an offer on a property. This could leave these potential homeowners in the awkward position of finding up to an extra 3% of the property value before completion. This may be a struggle for cash strapped first time buyers.

Contractor Mortgages from Halifax

With just a 10% deposit, and a £999 arrangement fee, first time buyers can access a 2 year fixed rate mortgage at 4.79%. If you can provide a larger deposit of around 15%, you will be able to access a 2 year fixed rate at just 3.04% with a £1499 arrangement fee. These competitive Contractor Mortgage rates are available immediately to first time buyers. The arrangement fee can be added to your mortgage in both cases. So you won’t need to pay it upfront.

There is no stamp duty.

You can also access the stamp duty offer if you are applying for a 95% mortgage from the Halifax Help to buy product range. This is great news for those Contractors that have struggled to save a large deposit.

Looking for a larger property or your next move? If you are buying a property over the value of £250,000 or are an existing homeowner looking to move, you won’t qualify for the stamp duty incentive from Halifax. However, you can access a wide range of competitive Contractor Mortgage rates.This includes a special rate with the Lender. This entails a fixed rate mortgage for 2 years at 1.79% with a £1499 fee if you have a 40% deposit.

Halifax are not the only Contractor friendly Lender so it is worth consulting a Contractor specialist Independent Financial Adviser. They will search the whole of the market to find the best rates available to suit your individual circumstances.

Contractor Mortgages Broker

Tony Harris is a Specialist Contractor Mortgages Broker. He has a special relationship with the Halifax. Therefore, he is able to get contractors better rates than they would get on the marketplace. He is able to do this because of the credibility he has built up with them. This is mainly because the contractors that he sends to them have paid up on their mortgages and not defaulted.

Normally if you approach a building society, or high street bank, on your own, as a contractor you will be told that you need three years worth of accounts. Furthermore, you will only get a mortgage offer based on your Director’s salary.

Contractor Mortgage Offers With No Stamp Duty

This wouldn’t be worth having. However, because of Tony’s credibility with the Halifax he can get mortgage offers for contractors just on production of their contract. Indeed, first time contractors can get specialist contractor mortgage offers on their very first day of their very first contract. He can also get them quotes based on their daily rate annualised (daily rate x 4 x 48 weeks) rather than Director’s salary.

This Halifax one is with no stamp duty.

To find out more or apply you should click on Specialist Contractor Mortgages

Specialist Contractor Mortgages loans soaring with Help to Buy

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Specialist Contractor Mortgages

UK Contractor Mortgage Boom

UK Contractor Mortgages are in great demand with specialist contractor mortgages loans brokers being run off their feet with demand due to Help To Buy.

Previously, lenders who were insisting on 20% and 25% deposits were keeping first time contractors out of the market.

However, the Government’s Help to Buy scheme has allowed contractors to get 95% specialist contractor mortgages loans.

Contractor Mortgages UK

According to the Nationwide Building Society, house prices rose by 0.6% in February alone. That is an annual increase of 9.4% since February last year.

A lot of this is down to the Government’s Help To Buy programme.

Specialist contractor mortgages loans brokers are able to get contractors mortgage quotes within a day or two of being approached.

Furthermore they don’t have to produce 3 years worth of accounts like they would if the contractor walked into a high street bank or building society.

Furthermore, still, they would base their quote on the contractor’s daily rate rather than their director’s salary as a high street bank or building society would.

Contractor Mortgages Loans

So, is the Government creating an artificial bubble in contractor mortgages loans? Certainly the Government want house prices higher to create a feelgood factor before the elections next year.

However, average house prices are still lower than they were in 2007 when the credit crunch hit so they are more affordable than they were then.

Contractor Mortgages Loans Rates have fallen by almost a full percentage point since October when the Government brought in Help To Buy as more and more lenders compete with each other to provide specialist mortgages for contractors.

Contractor Mortgages Boom

We are experiencing the fastest rate of house price growth for 4 years.

The average house price is now £3177,846. That’s still 5% behind what they were 7 years ago.

Lower interest rates and higher consumer confidence in the economy are likely to underpin this market.

Also, builders are building fewer houses. The number of houses built last year was 38% below 2007’s level. So more people are chasing fewer houses which forces prices higher.

House builders are reporting doubled profits with this new surge.

Contractors are piling in to these specialist contractor mortgages loans deals before house prices rise more.

To find out more or apply you should click on Specialist Contractor Mortgages

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Contractor Mortgages – 95% mortgages trebled with Help To Buy

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95% Mortgages for Contractors

The number of 95% mortgages available in the marketplace has trebled since the Government’s Help To Buy scheme was brought in during October. This has had a knock-on effect on UK Contractor Mortgages. Contractors are scrambling to get specialist contractor mortgages before the prices rise too high.

Not only that, the lenders are scrapping amongst themselves to use the Help To Buy scheme to sell those low deposit mortgages. This has resulted in the effective loan rates coming down a full percentage point since Help To Buy was introduced.

That’s saving the average buyer £1,200 a year in interest payments for houses averaging £150,000. When it comes to contractors that amount would be higher.

Contractor Mortgages in the UK

According To Genworth, buyers who want 95% mortgages via Help to Buy now have 132 different deals available to them. It seems that, since Help to Buy was introduced, lenders have cut the best rates from 5.48% to 4.69%.

That’s a fair bit of money for a contractor who is buying, say, a £300,000 house. Help To Buy allows first time contractors the opportunity to get a specialist contractor mortgage at a decent price.

Contractors still have a problem, when they go to a high street bank or building society. They ask for three years worth of accounts. They also base the quote on their Director’s salary, which they deliberately keep low. I found this problem all those years ago when I started contracting.

Specialist Contractor 95% Mortgages

Contractors today are luckier as there are now specialist contractor mortgages brokers, like Tony Harris. They have credibility with lenders in the marketplace. That’s due to the good behaviour of contractors for whom he previously got mortgages, in terms of making their payments and not defaulting.

Tony can get contractors 95% mortgages via Help To Buy on production just of their contract. Furthermore he gets them a quote based on their daily rate annualised. For instance a contractor on £400 a day could get an offer of up to £384,000.

To find out more, or to apply, you should click on Specialist Contractor Mortgages

UK Contractor Mortgages surge in new Help To Buy boom

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95% UK Contractor Mortgages Surge

There’s been a contractor mortgages surge in the UK because of Help To Buy.

The demand for specialist contractor mortgages in the UK is soaring according to new figures. It seems that the average cost of a house in the UK is now £176,491 – up 0.7% in December from the previous month. It was predicted to rise by 0.6%.

Year on year, house prices were up by 8.8%. Tony Harris, a specialist contractor mortgages broker in the UK, is seeing contractor mortgages surge way above what it was even in the peak years up to 2007.

So, house prices are now just off their 2007 peaks – 4% off to be precise.

According to Howard Archer and economist at IHS Global Insight, “It is evident that the strength in house prices is spreading. This can only fuel concern that a new housing bubble could really develop in 2014.”

Help To Buy

It is the Help To Buy scheme that the Government has introduced that has caused this contractor mortgages surge in prices. It started in October and will remain in place for the next three years.

Prior to this, lenders were asking for deposits of 20% to 25% of the price of a house. This was keeping first time buyers out of the market.

Now, via its Help To Buy scheme, the Government is guaranteeing and subsidising the difference. That’s so that people can now get 95% mortgages again. This is fuelling a contractor mortgages surge.

UK Contractor Mortgages

This is causing an especial surge in the demand for specialist contractor mortgages in the UK. The 20% deposits had been a major problem for new contractors, who were now earning large sums of money. Many of them haven’t been saving long enough for a 20% deposit.

Tony Harris is able to get UK contractors mortgage offers on the very first day of their very first contract. All they need is their contract as guarantee and having contractor mortgage offers based on their daily rate x 5 x 48. The lenders then multiply this by up to 4, depending on their credit record, for the contractor mortgage offer.

To find out more or apply you should click on Specialist Contractor Mortgages

Contractor Mortgages: Help to Buy sending house prices soaring

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Specialist Contractor Mortgages

95% Specialist Contractor Mortgages are proving very popular with the advent of the Government’s Help To Buy scheme which started in October for existing houses and is due to run for the next few years.

It has really fired up a sagging housing market.

Rising House Prices

Rightmove, which is a property website have said that house prices have gone up by 1% in just the first two weeks of January. That’s an average of £2,406 per property. That’s the fastest they have ever gone up in that period says Rightmove.

House Prices have now gone up by 6.3% in the last year. That’s the highest rate of annual increase since the top of the market in November 2007.

In London it is just going crazy with house prices up by 15% in the past year. Indeed some experts are calling for Help To Buy to be cut short in London in case it overheats the market.

Mortgage Broker

Contractor Mortgages deals are flying off the shelf according to specialist Contractor Mortgages broker Tony Harris.

Normally contractors find it difficult to get mortgages, with high street banks demanding to see three years worth of accounts and making offers related to the contractor’s Director’s salary which is not usually that large.

Because of Tony’s reputation in the marketplace and the good payment record of the contractors that he has got mortgages, he is able to get contractors mortgage offers based on their daily rate and all they need is a copy of their contract.

First Timer Buyers

Indeed he can get first time contractors mortgage offers on their very first day of their very first contract. They can be in their dream house in another 4-6 weeks. One new contractor was even able to get the keys to his dream house within two weeks of his first ever contract.

To find out more, or to apply, click on Specialist Contractor Mortgages

Race to beat Funding for Lending Cap

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Funding for Lending Cap

The race is on to beat the Government’s Funding for Lending Cap on Specialist Contractor Mortgages. The Government had loaned the big lenders funds so that they could loan money to businesses to help the country out of the downward spiral.

Banks hadn’t been lending, which was hitting the economy, so the Government stepped in to guarantee loans to small businesses.

However, instead of using that money to loan to small businesses, the bulk of the money was used by the banks to fund mortgages.

Help to Buy

The Government exacerbated this by the launch of the Help to Buy. The Government would guarantee 15% of a 95% loan to those buying new houses. This was to help boost both the construction industry and the housing market. It also brought first time buyers into the market for the first time in years.

They have extended it to all buyers now. It was supposed to come in during January but they brought it forward 3 months to October. Tony Harris, a mortgage broker for many years in the contractor market, saw a steady flow of contractors taking up specialist contractor mortgages deals.

House prices have started to rise boosted by more buyers entering the market.

End of Funding for Lending

Now, shortly, the Government will pull one of the planks away. In February, the Government will bring in a Funding for Lending Cap for lenders giving mortgages. They will still be able to tap Funding for Lending to loan to small businesses but not to those wanting to buy houses.

There will still be the other pillar of Help to Buy but there will be less monetary help from the Government in terms of Funding for Lending. There is still, of course, a window of opportunity between now and the start of February. It is predicted that loan rates may rise after that. That’s because there will be less money to loan to the same amount of mortgage seekers.

Closing Window

Contractor Mortgages are still available at the old rates. Lenders can still tap that money for now – but the window is closing.

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New Help To Buy scheme – big take up

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New Help to Buy Scheme

It seems that 2,000 people have already put in offers for houses in the first month of the new Help To Buy scheme set up by the Government. The average price of the properties bid for is £163,000.

It appears that the new Help To Buy scheme is mainly attracting first time buyers. Lenders froze them out of the market when they were asking for deposits of 20% or more.

Over 75% of the applications are from outside London and the South East.

Using the Help To Buy scheme you can get loans needing just a 5% deposit for homes up to a value of £600,000.

First Time Buyers

More than three-quarters of the applicants are first time buyers. The typical applicant is in his or her early thirties.

According to David Cameron “Four weeks in and it’s clear that Help to Buy is already delivering. Seventy-five families every single day have been put on the path to owning their dream home.

“But the best thing about it isn’t the statistics. It’s who is really benefiting. Most Help to Buy applicants are first-time buyers, young and have a roughly average household income.”

It seems that 65% of all mortgage providers have now signed up to the scheme. It will last for three years. After that, it is hoped that lenders will be in a position, with a recovering economy, of being able to give out 95% mortgages by themselves.

How to Apply

We would advise UK Contractors seeking to use the scheme to use a specialist contractor mortgage broker. Because, if you walk into a high street bank they will want three years worth of accounts. Furthermore, they will also base the offer amount on your director’s salary.

The specialist mortgage brokers will get you a mortgage offer based just on your contract and on your daily rate annualised, e.g. Daily Rate x 5 x 48. They can then get you offers of up to 4 times that annualised rate.

To find out more or to apply click on Specialist Contractor Mortgages

Specialist Contractor Mortgages broker predicts a boom year ahead

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Specialist Contractor Mortgages Broker

Specialist Contractor Mortgages broker, Tony Harris, sees a boom year ahead in 2014. Tony, who has been getting contractor mortgages for years at better than market rates, said “The market could be flying next year as there’s a heck of a lot more optimism”.

Tony is the first port of call for contractors whom the hight street bans have put off when they demand three years worth of accounts and only giving quotes of a multiple of their directors’ salaries, which are deliberately kept low to avoid tax.

Help To Buy

The big show in town now is Help To Buy. It is this that has set the market in motion with house prices already heading north. For years lenders weren’t lending except to people who could put up 20% or 25% of the money. That kept first time buyers out of the market and they are crucial to the housing market.

Now the Government is guaranteeing 20% of the money. That means that lenders can now offer 95% mortgages again So, that brings a lot more people into the market. The economic Laws of Supply and Demand say that if you increase the Demand and the Supply stays the same then the price of a commodity (in this case houses) will rise.

Help to Buy will be in place for three years so house prices are expected to soar. A recovering economy will also send house prices north.

Under Starters Orders

Phase 1 of the Government’s plan was to only offer the help with new houses. This was to help boost the construction industry as well as the housing market.

They were going to bring Help To Buy Phase 2 in on January 2014 for existing houses. However, they have brought it forward to October 2013. Buyers are now under starters orders and hoping to get in before house prices head further north.

With Tony’s credibility as a specialist contractor mortgages broker with lenders he can get contractor mortgages quotes from brokers almost immediately. All he needs is a copy of the contract rather than three years of accounts. He also gets contractors mortgages based on their daily rate annualised (daily rate x 5 x 48 x 4) rather than based on their directors’ salary. He can get first time contractors quotes on their very first day of their very first contract.

For more info, or to get a quote from a specialist contractor mortgages broker, fill in the form here Specialist Contractor Mortgages

Help to Buy Explanation for Contractor Mortgages

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Help to Buy Explanation

We give a Help to Buy explanation.

Help to Buy is the new scheme set up by the Government to give the housing market a kickstart. They hope that it will kickstart both the construction industry and also the UK economy. They are taking a risk that it just creates a housing bubble similar to the situation where we got into this mess in the first place.

However, contractors can take advantage of this. It is probably the best time to get a contractor mortgage. There is likely to be a ready supply of new buyers. The laws of Supply and Demand say that if you increase the Demand when the Supply remains the same then there is bound to be a rise in price of the product supplied, in this case UK houses.

Help To Buy

So, how does Help to Buy work?

It was brought in for new houses and flats only in the Budget this year. They were going to bring it in for older houses in January. However, they have now brought that forward to October. So it is ready to go now.

Lenders, previously, were insisting on deposits of 20% or more. So the Government are going to loan housebuyers 20% of the mortgage in a 5-year interest free loan. They guarantee the lenders 15% of the mortgage.

This means that lenders can offer 95% mortgages again. This obviously brings a host of new potential buyers into the market. Indeed it brings in far more first-time-buyers.

Among these are contractors. Tony Harris has been getting specialist contractor mortgages for years, now, at below market rates. He can now get first time contractors mortgage offers on their very first day of their very first contract. What’s more he can get them mortgage offers based on their daily rate annualised, i.e. Daily Rate x 5 x 48 x 4.

How to Apply

For a Help to Buy explanation or to apply for one of these specialist contractor mortgages click on Specialist Contractor Mortgages

95% Contractor Mortgages: Help to Buy now available for Contractors

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95% Contractor Mortgages

Contractors seeking to use Help to Buy to get 95% Contractor Mortgages got a major boost when the Chancellor, George Osborne, announced that Help to Buy was being brought forward from January next year to October this year.

It was already available for new houses but not for existing houses. Now, it will be available for contractors for all properties new or old starting from October.

Lending companies had been insisting on deposits of 20% or more, which scuppered a lot of new contractors. So, the Government is stepping in to underwrite the extra up to 95%.

Contractors have already been taking advantage of it for new houses. Now it is available for contractors going for old houses. Therefore, they are expecting to really pile in for any property.

Help to Buy

The scheme will last for 3 years. Already house prices have started to pick up a head of steam. Prices are up by 0.5% this month on last month which is an annual rate of 6%.

With the Government announcement that Help to Buy is being brought forward and available for contractors, they expect price increases to accelerate.

Tony Harris has been getting Specialist Contractor Mortgages for contractors for a number of years now. He has seen the market go through the roof recently.

The reason is that he can get contractors offers based on a multiple of their daily rate annualised (x 5 x 48 x 4) rather than an offer based on a contractor’s director’s salary as the high street banks do.

Production of Contract

They don’t need three years worth of accounts either as they would through a high street bank. Tony says that all they need is their contract.

Indeed he says that he can get contractors specialist contractor mortgages offers on the very first day of their very first contract. Furthermore, they can get the keys to their dream house within 4 weeks of starting their first contract.

This appears to be the time to buy. House prices are likely to be 15% to 20% higher in three years time.

95% Contractor Mortgages are now available for contractors.

To get more info, or to apply, click on Specialist Contractor Mortgages