First Time Buyer Mortgage with Bad Credit

The Client:

Our client is a First Time Buyer. They are seeking a residential mortgage to purchase a house for themselves to live in. They have a good income and are employed, but they have some bad credit including defaults and CCJs that were registered over 3 years ago, but have not been satisfied. They are also a Foreign National, but have indefinite leave to remain in the UK. The client has a 15% deposit.

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Scenario:

There are some difficulties with this situation. The fact they have CCJs and defaults have impacted their credit report in quite a negative way. The other issue here is the fact they are not “satisfied” i.e been paid off, so remain outstanding which a lot of lenders do not like to see. The final thing to consider here is that the client is a foreign national, but has indefinite leave to remain.

The Solution:

Being a whole-of-market Broker, we have the knowledge to know that some lenders are more lenient when it comes to previous bad / “adverse” credit and also the bad credit is still outstanding and hasn’t been satisfied.

There are a few lenders that will manually make a decision on the viability of an application, rather than let a computer make the decision. The lender we went to for this client has a tiered rate system that gets better the longer ago the CCJ’s or defaults were registered. Most importantly they do not need to be satisfied. The fact they are a foreign national doesn’t matter as they have indefinite leave to remain, they are treated as a UK citizen for the purposes of the mortgage. The deposit is 15% is the minimum for this scenario.

Summary:

It is possible to get First Time Buyer Mortgages in extremely complicated scenarios, and situations that would usually seen as undesirable to most lenders.

Key things to consider for First-time Buyers:

• Some lenders will allow historic bad credit.

• Some lenders will allow bad credit that was registered years ago, but still not satisfied

• Indefinite leave to remain allows the client to get treated as a citizen for the purpose of a mortgage

• Some lenders will lend up to 85% with bad credit

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