Supporting newly qualified and supply teachers

Teaching Career. Mortgage Challenge? Do you know how we assess teachers throughout their career journey?

Whether your client is taking their first step into teaching or has built a career as a supply teacher, we’re here to help you place more cases with confidence.

What we’ll need:

Newly qualified teachers

  • A teaching contract starting within six months of the mortgage application
  • Confirmation of salary and start date
  • A contract fully signed and dated by both the applicant and the employer
  • Evidence of affordability between application and employment start date may be requested by our underwriters

Supply teachers

  • A minimum of 12 months’ contracting history in the teaching profession
  • Latest payslip(s) or invoice(s), latest P60
  • Latest month’s bank statement
  • Current contract, where available
  • Income to be calculated using lower of annualised year to date on latest payslip or P60

We’re always enhancing our lending criteria, so it’s always worth taking another look to see if we could help your current or next client.

For further details, visit our lending criteria.

Lending criteria