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Step 9 Enquiring about a mortgage

If you need a mortgage, this is when you should talk to a bank or building society.

This guide is adapted from Your Right To Buy Your Home, © Crown Copyright 2005; Amended Reprint March 2006. Posted on this site September 2008.

Fast Mortgaging Services

Our mortgage partners pride themselves in providing a fast, personal and smooth service to council property tenants like you all over the UK. They've helped several thousands of people like you from Berkhamsted to Midhurst to Nailsea. The qualified mortgage advisers do everything they can to ensure that the whole process moves as speedily and efficiently as possible, from the moment you contact them, to the time you move into your house. Obviously, arranging in depth financial products like can take time - but you'll have a single point of contact at the mortgage company to speak to. They'll help make the whole thing as fast as possible - they're fully qualified and will have dealt with every conceivable hitch before. You'll be in safe hands!

The advisor will also help contacting the council, if necessary. You'll need to have a valuation done on behalf of your local council. If you've already got one of those, great! You're well on your way to getting your RTB mortgage speedily. If you don't have the valuation at the moment, that's not a problem! Our partners will advise you with exactly what you need to do, and what the council will expect of you.