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New 95% mortgage scheme launched

A new government-backed mortgage scheme to help people with 5 percent deposits get on to the housing ladder is available to lenders from 19 April 2021.

First announced at the 2021 Budget, the scheme will help first-time buyers or current homeowners secure a mortgage with just a 5% deposit to buy a house worth up to £600,000. The government says this will provide 'an affordable route to homeownership for aspiring homeowners'.

The government will offer lenders the guarantee they need to provide mortgages that cover the other 95%, subject to the usual affordability checks.

The scheme is now available from lenders on high streets across the country, with Lloyds, Santander, Barclays, HSBC and NatWest having launched mortgages under the scheme and Virgin Money following next month.

Miguel Sard, Managing Director of Home Buying and Ownership at NatWest, said: 'We welcome the government's new mortgage guarantee scheme to give further support to those with smaller deposits. For those customers, particularly younger or first-time buyers, saving up for a big deposit can often be difficult, and we know people in these groups are some of the hardest hit by the effects of the pandemic.

'A government-backed scheme will help segments of the market for whom homeownership has felt far out of reach in recent months.'
 

 

22/04/2021

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