Everything you need to know about buying a home

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4.1 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Buying a home, whether it is your first-time or not, can be a daunting experience.

From the initial hunt trawling through property websites, to finally getting the keys, it can be an arduous process with plenty of tricky hurdles to overcome.

In this housing podcast special, This is Money editor Simon Lambert, assistant editor Lee Boyce and host Georgie Frost talk all things property.

We have tips on taking the temperature of the local property market, working out what you can really afford, what to pay, how much to offer, how to do it and what happens next.

We also reveal some of our personal experiences and tricks we learnt along the way to help you with the process.

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is Money podcast in partnership with NS&I.
0:05.0	I'm your host Georgie Frost and alongside editor Simon Lambert and I today is Assistant Editor
0:10.0	Personal Finance Editor Lee Boyce.
0:13.0	And coming up with a housing special.
0:15.0	This time we're not going to try and get bogged down in all the politics.
0:19.0	We can leave Boris to do that.
0:26.1	No, think of this as your handy, how to audio guide, how to buy home for the best price.
0:36.8	We'll have tips on taking the temperature of the local property market, working out what you can really afford, what to pay, how much to offer, how to do it, and what happens next.
0:39.3	Don't forget you step up to day with all the latest breaking money news.
0:41.6	Just go to this ismoney.com.uk.
0:43.2	Or download the app.
0:45.0	This is Money.
0:47.6	Brought to you in partnership with NS&I,
0:49.9	where safer savings set you free.
0:53.3	Right, whether you're buying a home for the first time or perhaps you're upgrading to a bigger place,
0:55.3	chances are you'll need a bit of cash, and you will probably never have been through the stricter lending rules that have come in.
1:00.5	So before you buy, you'll need to get match fit.
1:04.0	Credit rating up to scratch, a fair whack of money for the deposit.
1:08.4	So let's get cracking.
1:11.2	Simon, what should you do before you get serious?
1:15.0	Well, before you even do any of the good old-fashioned house hunting bit, the fun bit,
1:21.8	the bit where you get to trawl through right move and think, ooh, I could live there,
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