Most high-value property is too expensive for people to buy just using savings or cash. Buying in cash may also not be advantageous from a fiscal perspective or when it means you put all your money into a property but have no remaining liquidity. Mortgages are loans that lenders offer to allow individuals to borrow funds to buy a property if you can’t or don’t want to buy it outright. You repay the lender over several years.

For most mortgages, you will need to put down a cash deposit. You will owe the remaining amount to your lender, and you will repay the loan in monthly instalments over a set period (known as the loan term). If you cannot repay the loan, your lender can repossess your home.

There are lenders for every type of property. As an independent broker specialising in high-value mortgages, PFC has access to more than 500 lenders. PFC has connections with lenders that specialise in every type of property including buy-to-let mortgages, commercial property purchases, property development, high-value mortgages, foreign national mortgages and non-resident mortgages and more. Your broker will source and negotiate the most competitive mortgage for you, whatever kind of property you are hoping to buy and however much you want to borrow.

The shortest mortgages have terms of 2-3 years, but these tend to be rare and used in particular scenarios. At the other end of the scale, it is sometimes possible to have 40-year mortgages, but these tend to be offered to mainstream borrowers with good income looking to maximise what they can borrow, rather than the norm for high-net-worth individuals.  

For high-net-worth individuals, mortgages with terms of 5 to 25 years are typical, although mortgages in the 5-to-15-year range tend to be the most usual.