Are First Time Buyers Really Unable to Get Mortgages… and Another Word About Lease Options

“First time buyers cannot get onto the housing ladder. They are priced out of lots of areas where they would like to live”. You hear this kind of thing quite a lot: Young first time buyers are priced out because they are not earning enough or because they cannot raise the necessary deposit to get a mortgage. But is it […]

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Property Lease Options The FSA Catches Up

Synopsis: The media and the FSA catch up on an emerging scandal we first wrote about 2 years ago. It’s nice when the media catches up on an emerging scandal that we at LettingFocus first wrote about almost 2 years earlier. This is the summary of one such news story. Sound familiar? “Property investors are willing to buy peoples’ homes. […]

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