In The News

• Online Case Tracking - Saturday 26 February
  We are now trialling a facility allowing our customer to track the progress of their case online via our website. Once logged in, you will have realtime access to status information and documents. You will also be able to ask us questions about your case. We believe we are the first "quick sale" company to offer an online tracking service. If you are selling via us, please let us know if you wish to participate in our online case tracking trial.
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• Cash Buyer - Friday 28 January
  Around £0.5bn private funds are now at our fingertips to buy properties quickly (at trade prices) - helping fill the gap left by our competitors who are rapidly disappearing due to the lack of buy-to-let mortgages which almost all our competitors rely upon.  One of our private funds (£150m available) allows us to buy certain properties in London and South-East England for hard cash, completing the whole process within as little as one week.  Not many...
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• Private Funds - Wednesday 22 September
  We buy mainly using private funds, unlike most of our competitors who rely upon buy-to-let mortgages to fund purchases. In the current economic climate, buy-to-let mortgages have become very hard to obtain - so our competitors often have to pull-out at the last minute when their mortgage application is declined. When we buy using private funds (from private investment funds, hedge funds and individual investors), once we confirm an offer to buy your property,...
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• Government Mortgage Rescue Scheme flops - Wednesday 21 July
  The latest figures from the Government have revealed that only 629 households have been helped by their own "Mortgage Rescue" (sale and rent back) scheme since January 2009.  The Government has also announced that they propose to reduce funding to their scheme at the end of this year - which will very likely reduce the number of households helped in future. Buy House , up until 16th October 2009, together with our FSA authorised sale...
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• In-house SRB underwriter - Wednesday 14 July
  FSA authorised underwriters are now permanently located in our office, to offer immediate sale and rent back (SRB) advice and service. Although Buy House is not itself authorised to carry out sale and rent back activities, our FSA authorised partner now has some of its underwriters permanently located in our office.  This means that anyone contacting us about sale and rent back will be able to immediately speak to an FSA authorised advisor. This tight partnership allows Buy House...
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