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(Picture: Rightmove)The UK’s biggest lender has unveiled a 95 per cent mortgage which can be used to buy a new build house.
With only months to go until the Government’s Help to Buy scheme — which has given more than 350,000 households a leg up onto the property ladder with a five per cent deposit — is wound up, lenders are looking for alternative ways to help buyers with small deposits on to the housing ladder.
