Godiva Mortgages (Review)

Godiva Mortgages is an intermediary-only lender. This means Godiva mortgages operate mainly through Godiva intermediaries and does not deal with customers directly but rather customers who want its products will have to get them through a mortgage broker. Godiva mortgages are also known as Godiva property finance.

Godiva mortgages is a specialist buy to let mortgage lender and their buy to let mortgages are provided by the Coventry building society

Godiva mortgages offer a host of variable rate and fixed rate mortgages which may be suitable to you based on your financial needs and current situation.

With a dedicated sales team and award-winning lending service, Godiva mortgages (Godiva intermediaries) prides itself on fast response time, competitive rates and high-quality customer service.

What types of mortgages can I get with Godiva Mortgages?

Buy to let Fixed rate mortgages: With these mortgages, the rates are fixed for a period of 2, 3 or 5 years and provides you certainty over your Godiva mortgage for that time frame.

Buy to let Variable rate mortgages: You can access a host of variable mortgages through Godiva mortgages and this mortgages will have a variable rate which can be increased or decreased at any time by Godiva mortgages.

Tracker mortgages: You can access a host of tracker mortgages from Godiva mortgages. These mortgages will usually track the bank of England’s rate and will move in line with it although it may not be the exact rate but rather a rate which will increase by the same point or increase by the same point as the bank of England rate.

Remortgages: You can access a host of remortgages on any of Godiva mortgages products.

Standard Buy to let mortgages: Godiva mortgages also offer a host of buy to let mortgages for buy to let investors.

You may be able to access mortgages on Godiva mortgages with up to 95% Loan to value (LTV).

Godiva mortgages may also allow you to make overpayments on your mortgage but there may be a fee for doing so and a limit on how much you can overpay your mortgage each year.

Godiva mortgages are known for being acceptable to the below:

Trading & SPV Ltd Co’s ✔ HMOs – up to 8 beds

✔ Portfolio landlords ✔ Multi-unit properties – up to 10 flats

✔ First-time landlords ✔ High-rise flats

✔ Ex-pats ✔ New build properties

✔ No minimum income required ✔ Ex-Local Authority prop

Eligibility for Godiva Mortgages

• No minimum income requirements
• Up to 75% LTV (subject to product availability)
• Loan amounts up to £1million
• Proc fees of 0.3% for product transfer
• Support for portfolio landlords with a clear and straightforward Interest Coverage Ratio
• Flexx for Term and Flexx Fixed products with no ERCs.

If you are considering getting a mortgage then using a mortgage broker may be a good choice as mortgage brokers usually have access to many more products than any specific mortgage lender.

Mortgage brokers will also usually have access to specific deals from mortgage lenders as well as experience on which mortgage lenders will be more likely to accept your case. This will help you avoid getting rejected on a mortgage application and having to build credit due to the damage a rejection might do to your credit score.

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