Mortgage rates have fallen by 1.2% since this time last year, saving the average first-time buyer £100-a-month in mortgage payments and £4,000 on a deposit.
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It can be hard to know what to ask when you first start viewing properties, so let's take advice from the pros. Our estate agents reveal the questions most first-time buyers want answers to.
Gazumping is when your accepted offer is trumped by another buyer. Here’s how to minimise the risk of it happening to you.
Need to work out your mortgage repayments? You can use our mortgage calculator - or challenge yourself to some mental maths with our mortgage calculation formulas.
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Right to Buy is a government scheme that offers council and housing association tenants help to buy the home they are renting.
Not sure when you have to start repaying your Help to Buy loan? Here’s what you have to pay after five years, 25 years or when you sell up.
We've compared the housing policies of the major political parties so you don’t have to.
