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    1. Has Labour loosened the rules then?

      When the Tories took over after the Great Financial Crash, they made 100% mortgages impossible to get.

    2. It’s an affordability thing. If they tie you in for a ten year fixed rate, which is their intention, they can say they have protected you from the vagaries of the market. It will be expensive now but it won’t get worse. It has its place I suppose.

    3. Beautiful_Bad333 on

      Probably the only way young people are going to get on the ladder. I actually think it’s a good idea as long as there are really strict affordability checks in place.

      Young people aren’t struggling to pay monthly for accommodation. They’re struggling to save a 10%
      deposit of tens of thousands of £ alongside paying for their accommodation. It’s not surprising really they can’t save the deposit. Affordability should have a section be based on previous rental proof of payments which isn’t hard to prove with letting agent’s statements.

      The only and probably biggest issue with this is going to be house prices will increase and it will push more people even further away from the chance of owning their own home who can’t prove this affordability because they’re just starting out.

    4. How long do we reckon it’ll be before this creates a financial crisis for banks and leaves a load of people trapped in negative equity, and the taxpayer has to bail this decision out?

    5. Pheasant_Plucker84 on

      If they could just reduce or reform how interest is done. I pay £650 a month in my mortgage, lucky if £100 of that comes off my mortgage. People say renting is dead money but when you actually look at how little comes off your mortgage, most of that is dead too

    6. AdAggressive9224 on

      Boy it took a long time for this to come back around.

      The general trend will be, as wealth inequality increases, the BoE will be forced to facilitate cheap and risky borrowing in order to keep the economy moving.

      It’s the only way in which you can keep normal people being able to afford houses and going on holidays and thus not completely collapsing the economy as all the money gets sucked into the coffers of the corporate landlords who just reinvest it all into, you guessed it, even higher property prices 🥳.

      Believe me the house prices *can* go to infinity and beyond.

      The beyond part is what worries me… Because how high can if go before the number just becomes meaningless and you just do a Zimbabwe?

    7. Count_Craicula on

      „We want to put rules in place to ensure that this never happens again.“

      „We want to get rid of beurocracy.“

      And then it happens again.

      „We want to put rules in place to ensure that this never happens again.“

      Etc etc… til the end of time…

    8. AncientStaff6602 on

      *insert back to the future meme “wait, I’ve seen this one before”*

    9. 100% morgages were never the problem. Lending to people who couldnt pay it back was

    10. I remember taking out a northern rock 120% mortgage deal back in 2002. What could go wrong?

    11. If you can’t put any money down then you can’t afford the house. It’s as simple as that.

    12. I miss Liz Truss. It’s only cause of her tanking the economy for about 2 weeks that I was able to afford a house without going into crippling debt.

    13. Electrical_Soil8791 on

      There’s a place for these. They’re a great option for young people, full time work with average/low salary, no bank of mum and dad. 

      I took a similar deal with Santander back in 2019 and it worked out great. The mortgage was 90% and then they offered a 10% unsecured loan in addition to that to cover deposit. All subject to affordability etc. I was earning 24k at the time and got a 1 bed flat valued at 100k.

      I knew I was just working full time forever anyway so made sense to start building up some equity instead of paying for some scummy landlord’s early retirement. 

    14. HeyYou_GetOffMyCloud on

      Tbh maybe it’s a better system than renting? Instead of a middleman dodgy landlord you get the better deal from the bank, don’t have a landlord, and increase your percentage ownership at a time that suits you.

    15. Royal-Horse3017 on

      10 year mortgage at a high interest rate is like 2k a month on any below average house price. This will not be an issue because the masses cannot afford this

    16. CitizenoftheWorld-95 on

      I think they’re trying to lock people in to house prices now before labours anti mass-immigration policies come into play. Probably will see a fall in house prices so they’re trying to lock people in now.

    17. humanmale-earth on

      We’ve been here twice before. Both times, it was a bad idea and led to recession.

    18. thehistorynovice on

      Trust me bro, just one more demand side reform, I promise, forget supply, we just need this one additional demand side reform and the housing situation is going to be fixed, I promise bro

    19. I don’t have a problem, as long as its managed. If you can prove you can pay rent for a year that is 10-20% lower then a mortgage monthly repayment is then I don’t see as much of a risk. (to give you headroom for things you wouldn’t typically buy as a renter).

    20. richmeister6666 on

      As long as it’s for first time buyers and not buy to let it shouldn’t be a problem, a good thing tbh.

    21. omgu8mynewt on

      Isn’t that basically the same as renting, but the bank is your landlord instead of a private landlord? And you’re liable for the maintenance?

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