Mortgage Broker Durham

Has the mortgage market got your head in a twist?
Get a FREE mortgage consultation with our 100% impartial Mortgage Advisor, with access to the whole of the mortgage market to get you the best mortgage rates. Remote meetings available within 3 working days**

Purple house icon in a shopping cart. Instruct SAM Conveyancing for your mortgage broker meeting
Get Quote
Mortgage Loan and House Keys - SAM Conveyancing's Mortgage Broker Consultations

Our mortgage brokers are independent of any lender and offer a full spectrum of straight talking, expert financial advice. Perfectly positioned to help you with your mortgage requirements.

Read SAM Conveyancing's trustpilot reviews
Icon showing England and Wales. Our mortgage advisors have access to the whole of the mortgage market.
Access to the Whole Market
Icon showing cash (3) slashed through. SAM's mortgage advisers offer a free initial consultation
FREE* consultations
for Durham
Icon showing convenient remote appointments with SAM's mortgage advisor
Convenient
Remote Appointments
A balanced scale showing 100% impartial professional advice from SAM's independent mortgage broker
Impartial Mortgage Advice
Rosette reads 'Top 100'. SAM's Mortgage Broker Durham was selected in Financial Times' Top 100 Financial Advisers 2022
FT Top 100 Mortgage
Advisors 2022

Why choose Mortgage Brokers with SAM Conveyancing?

Whether you are making a purchase or remortgaging a property, using an impartial mortgage advisor saves you from being pressured by any specific lender, so you can choose the best deal available from the whole market.

We can offer you a free* initial consultation with our independent mortgage brokers at Advies. They search across the whole market to provide the best mortgage rates that match your needs and circumstances, with access to exclusive rates that can beat the high street lenders.


Advies Top 100 Financial Advisers
We are delighted to announce that Advies have been recognised by the Financial Times as being one of the FT Adviser UK Top 100 Financial Advisers 2022.

Our mortgage advisors attain the strictest Financial Conduct Authority standards, to ensure honest, competitive and fair services, to you.

Bank of England Base Rate
 
3.75%
 

Changed from 4% on the

17th December 2025

.

Average Fixed Rate

5.37%
 
Based on a 2 year fixed deal with 90% LTV.
How to get a mortgage in Durham

Property prices in Durham vary noticeably. Terraced houses can be found in Stockton-On-Tees for an average price of £105,038, whereas in Hartlepool that price goes down to £86,685.

Location
10% Deposit
What would your salary need to be?
(estimated based on 4.5 times salary)
Stockton-On-Tees
£10,503
£21,007 or £10,503 per salary with a joint purchase
Hartlepool
£8,668
£17,337 or £8,668 per salary with a joint purchase

The rate of your mortgage will affect your affordability assessment. Use our calculator to see how the current rate will affect your monthly payments.

Mortgage Calculator

Our Mortgage Broker Guide to getting a mortgage in Durham

The mortgage application process has 4 stages regardless of which mortgage lender you use:

  • 1Approval/Decision in Principal (AIP/DIP)
  • 2Mortgage in Principal (MIP)
  • 3Mortgage Valuation
  • 4Mortgage Offer

A lightbulb icon: Mortgage Broker Durham Tip 1
#1 Top Tip

You can boost your credit record by clever use of a prepaid credit builder credit card

You normally have to pay a monthly repayment sum, perhaps £5, and you'll have to keep up your repayments for 1 year.

When you've made all your repayments over the 12 months, the company issuing the card adds an entry to your credit file stating that you successfully repaid a debt. Additionally, you don't need a credit reference to take such a card out – this is because you're not borrowing on it.

A lightbulb icon with '£' sign in it: SAM's Mortgage Broker Durham Top Tip 2
#2 Top Tip

Mortgage Types

Mortgages can be examined in terms of whether they share one or more of the following characteristics (although the first two are 'either/or' choices):

  • Repayment or Interest-only
  • Fixed or variable rate
  • Offset
  • Help to Buy
  • 'Helper'

Residential mortgage applicants can only take out repayment mortgages whereas non-residential clients can also opt to take out interest-only mortgages.

Interest rates are either fixed for a period or track a particular rate, which always involves taking into account movements in the Bank of England's base rate. Offset mortgages look to offset interest made on savings against interest owed on a mortgage and thus make repayments cheaper.

Help to Buy mortgages are specific to the Government's Help to Buy scheme, in which you buy a New Build home from a Help to Buy agent, using an equity loan of up to 20% (40% for Help to Buy London) from the Government and a reduced (minimum 5%) deposit. They are smaller than normal in terms of loan to value ratios because they only have to cover up to 75% of the purchase price (up to 55% for Help to Buy London).

Helper mortgages describe mortgages where a mortgage applicant has the help of an associate (normally a close family member) in buying a home. The associate provides security that the loan will be paid back either by putting up their own home as collateral or by putting money into an account which the lender controls, which may not be able to touched for a number of years, or by devoting interest earned on a savings accounts to bring down the interest on the mortgage loan, making the mortgage cheaper to repay.

Get your buildings insurance sorted in time for exchange of contracts!

According to the law, you are responsible for buildings insurance as a buyer of a property from the point of exchange. You should therefore have this in place to give you security against any disaster which might affect the fabric of your new property.

You should, therefore, plan for this in advance and organise your buildings insurance.


Frequently Asked Questions: Mortgage Brokers Durham


The role of a mortgage broker is to take your information and compare multiple deals from different lenders, based on your specific details, to find you the best option.

The benefit of using a mortgage broker is having one expert doing the research and comparison for you, rather than dealing with multiple lenders who all want to sell you their own products. Our independent Durham mortgage brokers have access to better deals than the general public and can negotiate on your behalf.
Unless you have already found a mortgage product and aren't really interested in finding a better deal, it is always worth using a mortgage broker, and when your initial consultation is free with SAM Conveyancing, what have you got to lose?
Some homeowners want the convenience of borrowing with the same lender that they currently bank with. Even then, it is often worth going through a broker anyway, as they may be able to get you an exclusive offer from that very same bank that you won't have access to.
Most mortgage brokers make their money in a flat fee or a commission, which is paid to them by the lender. Some brokers charge a fee to the borrower which is normally payable as a flat fee, or it can be financed with the mortgage.
You'll need a mortgage approval in principle in order to budget, so you should get a mortgage broker before you start looking for houses and certainly before you make an offer on one. In fact, some people speak to a mortgage broker as soon as they decide to get serious about buying a home.
There's no need to meet a mortgage broker face to face. Our hand-selected mortgage experts offer convenient remote meetings by phone, for award-winning, national coverage.
A mortgage broker will be quicker purely based on their greater experience. They will be able to check your application to make sure it's not rejected for commonplace mistakes and they can steer you away from wasting your time applying for mortgage products or to lenders who are likely to turn you down.
*The free mortgage consultation allows you to discuss your mortgage opportunities with one of our panel of FCA-regulated mortgage brokers. If you want to proceed, some mortgage products require a payment to the broker. You can disengage your Mortgage Broker before making a formal application, and no fee will be charged. SAM Conveyancing doesn't provide regulated mortgage advice.
**Subject to availability. If we are fully booked ask and we will see if we can fit you in sooner.
 

Mortgage Broker Durham - Recently Completed

  • Victoria Road, Darlington, County Durham, United Kingdom, DL1 5SF
  • Chantry Place, West Rainton, County Durham DH4 6PP
  • Goodyear Crescent, Durham, County Durham, DH1 2EB
  • Silver St, Durham DH1 3RE
  • Cheveley Park, Belmont, Durham DH1 2AA


Watch our video to find out how to organise your mortgage and funding for your purchase.

Use our online mortgage payment/repayment calculator (UK).

 
ConveyancingSolicitorsfooter-f2CvyL.png
hombuyerssurveyfootermirrored.png