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From thinking to front door.
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Phase 1: Picture Your Move · 0/7
Start with the life you want, the places that could support it and a realistic timeline. This phase costs nothing, but it prevents expensive false starts later.
Phase 2: Sort Your Money & Mortgage · 0/10
Turn savings, income and credit history into a workable buying budget, then finish with an Agreement in Principle.
- 2.0 Sort Your Money & Mortgage: OverviewNot started
- 2.1 Check Your Credit ReportsNot started
- 2.2 Build Your DepositNot started
- 2.3 What You Can AffordNot started
- 2.4 Understand the Costs of BuyingNot started
- 2.5 Mortgages 101Not started
- 2.6 Types of MortgageNot started
- 2.7 First-Time Buyer SchemesNot started
- 2.8 Broker or Direct? Comparing LendersNot started
- 2.9 Get an Agreement in PrincipleNot started
Phase 3: House Hunt in Earnest · 0/8
With your budget and AIP ready, narrow your areas, understand tenure and view homes with clear eyes.
Phase 4: Offer, Conveyancing & Survey · 0/11
An accepted offer starts the longest and most fragile stretch. Build the legal, lending and survey evidence you need before committing.
- 4.0 Offer, Conveyancing & Survey: OverviewNot started
- 4.1 How Offers Work in EnglandNot started
- 4.2 Make Your OfferNot started
- 4.3 Negotiate and Agree the SaleNot started
- 4.4 Instruct a ConveyancerNot started
- 4.5 Submit Your Full Mortgage ApplicationNot started
- 4.6 The Mortgage ValuationNot started
- 4.7 Choose and Book Your SurveyNot started
- 4.8 Review Survey ResultsNot started
- 4.9 Searches and EnquiriesNot started
- 4.10 Receive Your Mortgage OfferNot started
Phase 5: Exchange of Contracts · 0/7
Prepare carefully for the moment your purchase becomes legally binding, then organise the practical move.
Phase 6: Completion & Moving In · 0/5
Follow the money and keys on completion day, then close out the legal and practical jobs of becoming an owner.