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Training Session · Advanced · 15 min+65 Mortgage Fitness Unlocks: Self-Build Aware badge

Self Build Mortgages

Building your own home is a different kind of borrowing. Money arrives in stages, not one lump sum — and understanding that rhythm is the difference between a build that flows and one that stalls.

Welcome

Build the house — and the cash-flow

Self-build is the most hands-on route to a home, and the borrowing behind it works differently from anything else in the market. By the end of this session you'll understand stage payments, know what a lender scrutinises, and have a clear list of what to sort next.

How stage payments work

What lenders assess

Your readiness action plan

Getting Your Mortgage Ltd

Financial Fitness for Home Ownership

Working out your way home.

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Company details: Getting Your Mortgage Ltd. Registered office: 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom. ICO registration: ZC177396.

Regulatory status: GYM provides Mortgage Fitness guidance only and is not itself authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to give regulated mortgage advice. Any regulated mortgage advice is provided by FCA-authorised advisers we introduce you to, after a full fact-find. The Mortgage Fitness Score is for guidance only and is not a mortgage offer, decision in principle or guarantee of approval.

Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.

Think carefully before securing other debts against your home. Buy-to-let mortgages and some forms of commercial or overseas lending are not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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Self Build Mortgages · 15 min · +65 XP