Self Employed Mortgages

Anyone who has ever been self employed will know that trying to get a mortgage can be a really difficult process. With strict criteria and banks that won’t even take you into consideration, you can feel like you have no options left. Some self employed workers have ended up renting property for long periods of […]

The Problem For Self Employed Contractors

Expert Mortgage Advice for Self Employed Contractors.This is a very typical situation when you are a self employed contractor. You’ve finished your accounts for the year. Your accountant has deducted all your equipment, mobile phone costs and probably a few receipts for McDonalds for those ‘away from home’ expenses and now you have a nice […]

Should I Fix My Mortgage For 2 Or 5 Years

Should I fix my mortgage for 2 or 5 years This article describes some of the important decisions that CIS Subcontractors need to make on there mortgage. The questions we get asked by lots of our sub contractors is whether the mortgage should be fixed for the short or longer term. This is quite a […]

The General State Of The UK Housing Market

UK home buyers are being greeted with fewer choices and a housing market that is becoming stagnant. Could this be a result of Brexit or possibly the fault of an uncertain election year? The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveys recently released a report that suggests the slowdown in the housing market could be due to […]

Good News For Our Latest CIS Construction Worker

I thought I would take this opportunity to update our CIS readers with a recent success story. Chris contacted us as he has already been declined by most of the high street for a mortgage. His problem was that although he is self-employed he had just started as a CIS contractor with a building firm. […]

How To Plan For A Mortgage If You’re Self-employed

It is estimated that around 1 in 5 workers in the UK now self-employed, or working on a zero-hour contract, the mortgage market has finally woken up to the need to rethink some previous assumptions. Until recently it was common practice for a lender to demand a minimum of two years accounts when assessing a […]