Boost your credit score

Boost your credit score

Improve your chances of first-timer buyer mortgage success.

If you are planning to buy your first property, one of the initial steps is to apply for a mortgage. This process requires an assessment of your creditworthiness by lenders. When they carry out their assessment, it will include an evaluation of your credit report which details all the information on how you have managed credit in the past, including late or missed repayments.

Time to review your Mortgage?

Time to review your Mortgage?

Getting a mortgage is a big step towards buying a home, and is definitely cause for celebration. Your mortgage deal might have been competitive when you first got it. However, by regularly reviewing your mortgage and remortgaging when an appropriate deal is available, you could save a lot of money, amounting to thousands of pounds.

Renting to Students

Renting to Students

Stereotypes are diminishing as landlords learn students make great tenants.

As a Landlord, you may have steered clear of the student market in the past. But student accommodation is not what it was ten or twenty years ago. Today, the student housing market is exceptionally diverse.

Are you sitting on a goldmine?

Are you sitting on a goldmine?

A major factor that has increased property prices has been the shortage of homes to sell to match demand in many areas. And despite the increase in property prices to ‘new all-time highs’, the typical mortgage payment has ‘not been high’ by historic standards compared to take-home pay, largely because mortgage rates have remained close to all-time lows.

Top tips for selling a home in winter

Top tips for selling a home in winter

Are you trying to sell your home this winter? It’s not the easiest time of year, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. So what should you do if you’re thinking of going ahead with a winter sale?

During the colder and shorter winter days people might be more hesitant to view lots of properties. So, first impressions online, including great photography, couldn’t be more important.