Help for first time buyers with 95% mortgage scheme
First-time buyers in Leicestershire can apply for mortgages under a new scheme which require as little as a 5% deposit.
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First-time buyer hopeful after new mortgage scheme is launched
First-time buyers in Leicestershire can apply for mortgages which require only a 5% deposit, designed to help more people onto the property ladder.
This is first-time buyer Christina East looking at properties in an estate agents.
Christina is hoping to buy under the new scheme run by Leicestershire County Council & Lloyds TSB which will allow her to borrow 95% of the value of the mortgage rather than 90%.
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