Home Buy Direct

What is HomeBuy Direct?

HomeBuy Direct is a new shared equity scheme designed to help up to 18,000 First-Time Buyers into affordable home ownership. The scheme will also help participating house builders by enabling more First-Time Buyers to purchase their newly built properties. The scheme has been allocated £400m of Communities and Local Government funding.

The scheme will be offered on specific new build properties brought forward by developers. Buyers will be offered an equity loan of up to 30 per cent of the purchase price, co-funded by Government and the developer.

A full printable guide can be downloaded here.

Why have you introduced it?

We recognise the difficulties being faced by the house building industry and First-Time Buyers in the current housing market, where the global supply of credit has led to the most severe market conditions since the early 1990s.

Evidence collected by the Regional Development Agencies (eg the recent survey of house builders undertaken by the South East England Development Agency - SEEDA), English Partnerships, The Home Builders Federation and others has demonstrated the impact on house builders - who have experienced a reduction in new reservations - and on First Time Buyers, who have struggled to raise the deposits they need in the tough mortgage market conditions.

HomeBuy Direct will respond to the current market conditions by:

• making more affordable homes available to First-Time Buyers who are currently priced out of the market, due to the higher cost of obtaining a mortgage or the need to provide a larger deposit
• providing a targeted boost to the housing market by stimulating more transactions, and
• helping to maintain the capacity of the house building industry to respond when market conditions improve. This will, in turn, help us to achieve our long-term housing supply targets.

How will it work?

Once launched, HomeBuy Direct will operate as follows:

• As with the other HomeBuy products, the 15 regional HomeBuy Agents will be the first point of contact for First-Time Buyers who are interested in applying for the scheme. For Gloucester you should contact Home2Own on 0800 975 1915 or visit therw website at www.home2own.org.uk
• General eligibility for HomeBuy Direct will be the same as for the other HomeBuy products (ie households earning £60,000 or less who could not afford to buy a suitable property on the open market without assistance in the area where they live or work).
• Applicants will also be subject to an affordability check, designed to assess the size of equity share that they are able to afford and sustain.
• If applicants qualify for the scheme, they will be invited to choose one of the HomeBuy Direct properties brought forward by the developers.
• The purchaser will receive an equity loan of up to 30 per cent of the purchase price of the chosen property. The equity loan will be co-funded on equal terms by Government and by the developer supplying the property. The purchaser must contribute the remaining equity (a minimum of 70 per cent), through their mortgage (which could be obtained from any lender regulated by the Financial Services Authority) and any deposit.
• There will be no fee charge for the equity loan for the first five years but a fee will be charged from year six onwards.
• Purchasers can redeem the equity loan in installments, purchasing up to 100 per cent equity after their initial purchase by buying additional equity at the market rate.
• Buyers will be able to sell their HomeBuy Direct home on the open market. When they do so, they will repay the equity loan by way of a share of the sale proceeds. This repayment will be shared equally between Government and the developer.
• If the value of the property has increased by the point of sale, the buyer, the developer and Government will all share in this increase. If the value of the property has gone down, Government and the developer will only share the sale proceeds that are left over once the mortgage has been repaid.

Who will it help?

HomeBuy Direct will help:

• First-Time Buyers
  The scheme is targeted at First-Time Buyers who cannot afford to buy a suitable property on the open market without assistance in the area where they live or work. This may be due to the higher cost of borrowing at present, or other factors.
• House builders
  Current market conditions and lack of mortgage liquidity are impacting heavily on the house building industry. There is a long-term public interest in maintaining the capacity of the industry to respond with increased supply when the housing market recovers. The scheme will help participating house builders by enabling First-Time Buyers to purchase their properties (by offering purchasers a better deal than they would otherwise have received).
• The housing market
  First-Time Buyers are one of the key drivers of the housing market. By assisting First-Time Buyers to purchase, HomeBuy Direct will provide a targeted boost to the market. This will encourage developers to build more to meet the extra demand.

Who will be eligible?

General eligibility for the scheme is the same as for our other HomeBuy schemes (ie households earning £60,000 or less who could not afford to buy a suitable property on the open market without assistance).

Although the scheme is targeted at First-Time Buyers, HomeBuy Direct could also help people who have previously owned properties but are now unable to buy without assistance, for example in the case of relationship breakdowns or families who are over-crowded in their existing homes.

When will the scheme be up and running?

The scheme is now in the process of being rolled out. 3,000 HomeBuy Direct properties are available to purchasers now, and further properties will become available very soon.

TO FIND OUT ABOUT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE GLOUCESTER AREA PLEASE CONTACT MICHAEL TUCK NEW HOMES ON 01452 726443 OR www.michaeltuck.co.uk

HELP AVAILABLE FOR HOUSEHUNTERS WITH NO DEPOSIT

If you’re ready to purchase a brand new property in the sought-after Gloucester area, but are daunted by reports of difficulties in obtaining a mortgage, then fear not as Persimmon Homes South Midlands is hosting a 70 per cent shared equity HomeBuy Direct day at it’s the Marketplace development in the city designed to assist those with little or no deposit.

Persimmon Homes is supporting the Government-led 70 per cent shared equity scheme at it’s Gloucester developments including The Marketplace, The Maples and Kingsway, and has therefore organised the weekend at The Marketplace on 20^th June between 10am and 5pm to help first time buyers and those earning a household income of less than £60,000 to purchase one of the company’s new properties.

Through the initiative, purchasers will be required to raise funding for 70 per cent of the purchase price including a mortgage plus, but are not requested to raise a deposit for their new home. The remaining 30 per cent is made up by an equity loan which is co-funded by the Government and Persimmon Homes.

Alison Reading, sales director for Persimmon Homes South Midlands states: “With so many differing shared equity initiatives now available, househunters are forgiven for being a little cautious and unsure as to what buying through shared equity means.

“It’s for this reason that we’re hosting our weekend – to dispel rumours, answer any questions and help those who initially thought they couldn’t afford to buy, to find a home to suit their needs and budget.”

On the day Persimmon’s expert sales advisers, a mortgage advisor and a representative from HomeBuy Direct will be on hand to assist interested parties with their enquiries.

Persimmon is catering for all purchaser groups at the HomeBuy Direct day as across the company’s highly acclaimed sites the homebuilder is offering two through to four bedroom homes with prices starting from just £90,997 for a two bedroom property.

Alison concludes: “I’d recommend interested parties get in touch with us about our HomeBuy Direct day to find out how we can support them move onto or up the property ladder without a deposit required.”

Further details on the HomeBuy Direct scheme can be found on the Michael Tuck Estate Agents blog or at youtube

The Marketplace is located off St Oswald’s Road, just a short walk form the centre of Gloucester. When complete the development will feature a total of 450 properties, ranging from one and two bedroom apartments to two, three and four bedroom homes, available in a variety of styles, from townhouses to traditional family homes.

As well as excellent new housing, residents of The Marketplace will enjoy a whole host of superb local facilities from a large retail and leisure complex to an improved infrastructure network and the vicinity of city centre bars and restaurants.

For further information about the HomeBuy Direct day and for details on the full range of properties available at The Marketplace and Persimmon’s alternative Gloucester-based developments, please contact Michael Tuck New Homes on 01452 726443 Alternatively, please log onto www.michaeltuck.co.uk or for details of all Persimmon developments in Gloucester.

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