Hi andrea Who is your mortgage company? Their answer to your request to go interest only seems a tad strange.
Melenie is quite right your Loan To Value (LTV) without fees and charges amounts to just over 75%. With fees and charges (solicitors - around 695 inc. VAT and disbursements, lenders arrangement fee – anything from .75 to 1.5% depending on the lender you go with and valuation and reference fees) you would be looking for just under the 80% LTV mark.
80% is probably achievable, but it does all depend on your circumstances. There are mortgage products specifically designed for people in IVA’s and the rates are fairly competitive.
Everything as I previously stated, depends on your personal circumstances. I can not and would not ask you all the questions that would need to be asked to be able to determine what would be the best advice to give you on an open forum.
All reputable FSA authorised and regulated mortgage brokers will give you free advice after carrying out a full fact find, this should include a full credit search, a land registry search and some serious homework on the valuation of your property, BEFORE any mortgage advisor worth his/her salt would even offer you a mortgage product. I would suggest that you speak to a reputable mortgage broker/advisor and find out what your options are. Rates ARE higher than they were a few years ago, but there are still some good products out there to be had as long as your circumstances fit the criteria.
(I do waffle when I’m tired, sorry about that…)
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