Analysis: Could graduate mortgages go mainstream?

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A new report from Datamonitor has suggested lenders are missing a trick when it comes to graduate and professional mortgages.

The report says there is real growth potential for this market given the increasing number of young people going into higher education, and the common difficulties they share with first-time buyers (FTBs) in getting onto the property ladder. These difficulties include not having a large enough deposit, or not having a deposit at all, the massive increase in property prices in recent years, earning a salary which is currently low but may rise significantly in the future and coming out of university with an increasing level of debt. Many of the features which graduate and professional mort...

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