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APRs are a fundamental to understanding how much your borrowing will cost you. They vary greatly according to what form of borrowing is being taken on and how high your credit score is.

You are well advised to shop around between products and types of borrowing available to you where APRs are concerned and you must find out what your credit score is – if it's on the low side, you're likely to be charged higher APRs on borrowing or even for your application to be refused.

With family deposit mortgages, a family member places cash in a linked special savings account to help another family member secure a mortgage to buy a home and where the money in the account is held as security against the mortgage not being paid off.

The cash is held for a fixed period of time, which can be quite long (many years). The risk is that the mortgagor defaults on repayments so the helper family member's money is at risk. However, savings interest is payable on the linked account, even if at a comparatively low rate, and if the correct repayments are made, there's no other cost to the helper family member.