Whether you’re a first-time buyer, or you’re thinking of becoming a landlord, the jargon used to describe the home buying process can feel like speaking in a foreign language.
Adam Hosker is director of Bespoke Finance
The mortgage guarantee scheme will give confidence to lenders returning 91%-95% LTV. Enabling households to purchase new build or existing homes. Helping first-time-buyers and existing homeowners alike.
The government will fully guarantee losses from lenders up to 80% of the purchase value. Then partially guarantee losses above that, up to 95% of lenders costs for up to seven years.
The eligibility is open to most purchases up to £600,000 purchase price on repayment mortgages. It won’t be available for buy-to-let, but no restrictions on landlords buying a new home.
The real restrictions will remain with mortgage lender criteria. With the new scheme doing nothing to alleviate affordability, unlike the Help-to-Buy scheme.
Customers and lenders need a government-backed 95% LTV mortgage scheme in the wake of the pandemic, according to Phil Bailey, director at Twenty7Tec.
Bailey said that while there has been a 40% increase in mortgage activity due to the stamp duty holiday, he believes lenders’ affordability and acceptance criteria remains stricter than it has been for many years.
This coupled with rising house prices as well as rents, has resulted in it becoming much harder for individuals to save 10% to 15% for a deposit.
Bailey said: “A scheme that supports both customers and lenders will surely provide much needed security and confidence in the mortgage and housing market.