Interest Only? The Family Building Society can help!

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The hot topic this week is Interest Only. The Family Building Society offer a range of Standard Interest Only Products as well as RIO mortgages. If you have any case enquiries or questions, do not hesitate to get in touch.

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If you would like to know more about this, or any of our other policy areas they are happy to arrange a call or zoom meeting to go through these. Let them know if this would be useful and they will get this in the diary at a time convenient to you.

Standard Interest Only Criteria Points

  • Max LTV of 75% if the client has a repayment strategy in place. Acceptable strategies include:
      1. Sale of other assets, e.g. second home, property, land in UK, etc.;
      2. Pension cash lump sum (personal or occupational).
      3. Stocks & shares ISA (new or existing); Cash Isa, NISA.
      4. Unit trust (new or existing).
      5. Investment bond (new or existing).
      6. Endowment policy (new or existing).
      7. Stocks and shares.
  • Max LTV of 70% if the strategy is Sale of mortgaged property:
      1. No minimum equity, but must be a credible strategy and can be evidenced that the sale will provide sufficient funds to both repay the advance and allow the Borrower to purchase a cheaper property to reside in.
  • No Minimum Income Requirement.
      1. A range of incomes considered Self Employed, Employed, Pensions/SIPPS/Investments/Rental.
  • Age at application, Min 18, Max: 89.

RIO Criteria Points

  • Max LTV at application 50% LTV.
  • Min Age at application 65, Max age at application 89.
  • Only Guaranteed Pension Income considered, if the application is joint, it must pass a predecease affordability.
  • No additional repayment vehicle needed.
  • Undefined mortgage term.