FREE Online Conveyancing Process for Buyers
Includes online checklists, videos, downloads and tips - plus it is completely free to use from start to finish and saves your progress along the way.
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With no need for face to face meetings you'll be called on the same day by one of our mortgage specialist brokers to discuss your circumstances and can support complex applications for Help to Buy, Right to Buy and Shared Ownership mortgages
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You'll have access to the whole of the market as our mortgage brokers aren't tied to any one mortgage company.
How to get a mortgage - or remortgage - in London
London is a world-renowned city packed with iconic landmarks including, among others, the National Theatre, Leicester Square, Picadilly Circus, the London Eye, Covent Garden, Big Ben and County Hall. Diversions are almost limitless; taking music as an example, you can go to the Albert Hall in Kensington Gore to hear a classical music orchestra playing Beethoven but you might also take in some cutting edge dance music around the popular Hoxton & Old Street areas.
You can take a walk in Hyde Park, look at Buckingham Palace, see the Houses of Parliament, visit the Tate Museums (Pimlico (Tate Britain) and Bankside on the South Bank (Tate Modern) and walk along the South Bank. There are many varied markets, Spitalfields near Liverpool Street to the east and Portobello Road to the west being just two examples.
You can take a walk in Hyde Park, look at Buckingham Palace, see the Houses of Parliament, visit the Tate Museums (Pimlico (Tate Britain) and Bankside on the South Bank (Tate Modern) and walk along the South Bank. There are many varied markets, Spitalfields near Liverpool Street to the east and Portobello Road to the west being just two examples.
The mortgage application process has 4 stages regardless of which mortgage lender you use:
- Approval in principal (AIP)
- Mortgage in principal (MIP)
- Mortgage valuation
- Mortgage Offer
Read about the full mortgage process here - What is the mortgage process?
Sort out any issues on your credit report
You must first obtain an up-to-date credit report to check how your credit worthiness is viewed. If you have been rejected for credit, you need to check your files immediately to work out the reason why. Otherwise, you may continue to apply for credit for which you continue to be declined. This cycle, of itself, worsens any credit problems.
First time buyer mortgage
First time buyer mortgages are any types of mortgage specifically marketed at first time buyers. They might for example be Help to Buy Mortgages or cashback mortgages (where the lender makes some cash immediately available for your home move when you take out the mortgage).
Mortgages specifically marketed at first time buyers are likely to be those which eliminate as much uncertainty regarding matters such as repayments as possible, so the certainty, for example, of fixed rates is likely to be favoured more than variable rate repayments.
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Property Price Stats for London
| Average property price in London | £663,288 |
| % Change compared to last year | 3% |
| Population of London | 8,239,000 |
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the Land Registry's UK House Price Index and you can view up to date property prices by clicking - Land Registry House Price Index >>
RECENTLY COMPLETED MOVES IN London
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- Oslow Tower, Flat number 11 Oslow Tower, Naomi Street, London, SE8 5EP
Local High Street Banks in London
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Our mortgage broker specialises in the local area and have completed house surveys in West London, North London, South London, East London, South West London, North West London and South East London.
- Barclays Bank Plc - Town Gate House, Church St E, Woking GU21 6AE
- HSBC Bank Plc - 6 Commercial Way, Woking GU21 6EZ
- Lloyds Bank Plc - 32 Commercial Way, Woking GU21 6ER
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Information about Mortgages
Watch our video to find out how to organise your mortgage and funding for your purchase.
Click to access our online mortgage payment/repayment calculator (UK).
Mortgage Broker Tips for the Conveyancing Process
One thing you can do for fast conveyancing in London is to opt for Monday as your completion date, when you get your keys and move into your new place.
Understandably, Fridays are the most popular days for completions - people then have the whole weekend to make their new place as shipshape as possible before going back to work on Monday. The trouble is, there's a fair chance that your conveyancing solicitor may well have other completions to do on Fridays and will be very busy already.
Therefore if you decide to opt for a Monday for completion - or indeed, just not a Friday! - your solicitor is more likely to be less busy and therefore more able to 'pull out all the stops' to help you to complete quickly, making sure all the transfers are carried out and so on.
So for a fast conveyancing move think about completing Monday to Thursday!
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SAM Conveyancing is a trading name of Share a Mortgage Ltd registration No. 08798475. We are an Introducer Approved Representative with the Financial Conduct Authority registration No. 618350. SAM Conveyancing complies with the Solicitors' Code of Conduct 2011 published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.