What are the final stages to buying a house?

Once you’ve found a house you’d like to buy, make an offer (subject to survey and getting a mortgage), apply for your mortgage, and get your solicitor to do the searches and legal work. When all this is done, you can move in.

Source: A step by step guide to buying your first home @ Norwich & Peterborough Building Society

Tools

• First-time home buyer guide @ the Money Advice Service
• Free First Time Buyers’ Mortgage Booklet 2016 @ MoneySavingExpert.com

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