Tag: Yorkshire Building Society
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Lenders Who Made Changes to Their Handbook in September 2017
A number of lenders made changes to their Handbook last month. Perhaps not surprisingly some focused on changes to leasehold requirements. Examples of lenders who made changes (England and Wales region) include: Yorkshire Building Society (2 sections) Scottish Widows Bank (5 sections) Swansea Building Society (1 section) Chelsea Building Society (2 sections) Market Harborough Building made set an…
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Lenders Start to Change Ground Rules on Ground Rent
Leasehold as a tenure received quite a lot of bad press in 2016 with the BBC and broadsheets such as the Telegraph pointing to the risk of people buying homes with escalating ground rents. This culminated in the Government saying that it would reform leasehold property after a campaign by charities and MPs to challenge…
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Conveyancing Yorkshire Style
Even though the stamp-duty holiday, which has meant properties under £175,000 have been exempt from the levy, ends in the next couple of weeks, there has been some good news for those looking to get on the property ladder. Yorkshire Building Society has this week launched a new range of mortgages for first-time buyers with…