Gatehouse Bank extends home finance offering

This is for UK home buyers with higher finance-to-value brackets of 65% and 80%, and available to all broker partners and directly from Gatehouse. For UK-residents, the rental rate on the original 50% FTV product remains 3.19%, while 65% FTV attracts a rate of 3.49% and 80% FTV a rate of 3.69%.

Gatehouse Bank extends home finance offering

Gatehouse Bank has launched a range of 2-year fixed home purchase plan products.

This is for UK home buyers with higher finance-to-value brackets of 65% and 80%, and available to all broker partners and directly from Gatehouse. For UK-residents, the rental rate on the original 50% FTV product remains 3.19%, while 65% FTV attracts a rate of 3.49% and 80% FTV a rate of 3.69%.

Charles Haresnape, chief executive of Gatehouse Bank, said: “The launch of our new home buyer products follows a successful pilot, which generated significant interest.

“I’m delighted that our range of home purchase plans, Shariah-compliant mortgage alternatives, will now be available to all our broker partners and I am confident that they will prove to be attractive to home buyers and those looking to refinance.

“Gatehouse aims to offer competitive products together with human underwriting that will appeal to a variety of customers, whether or not they require Shariah finance.

“We plan to continue developing our home finance range and inject some competition into a market that has been poor at offering consumers a real alternative.”

The new products follow the introduction of the bank’s firsthome purchase planproduct, a Shariah-compliant alternative to a traditional mortgage, which was launched in December with a maximum FTV of 50%.

Gatehouse today also expanded itshome purchase planoffering for UK expats and international residents. Its previous sole product for expats has been replaced by two 2-year fixed term products with rental rates of 3.69% at 65% FTV and 3.89% at 75% FTV.

The single product for international residents has also been replaced and extended with the introduction of a 65% FTV product at 3.99% and a 75% FTV option at 4.19%.

None of Gatehouse Bank’shome purchase planproducts carry any early payment charges.

As a Shariah-compliant Bank, Gatehouse does not charge interest, instead the bank and customer are joint owners of the property and the home buyer pays rent on the share of the property that the Bank owns.

Gatehouse’shome purchase planproducts offer customers two options; acquisition and rent, the equivalent of a conventional capital & interest mortgage, andrentonly, the equivalent of a conventional interest-only mortgage.