Skipton Building Society has made changes to its lending criteria on shared ownership.

The lending criteria has been updated to enable customers to staircase in increments of £5,000 or more, as well as staircase to 100% ownership (at 95% LTV) which will support more borrowers on their journey to home ownership

Key changes include the following:

• Extended 95% LTV lending for remortgage and additional borrowing applications.
• Remortgages of up to 95% LTV, where the customer is staircasing to 100% ownership.
• Lending of up 90% LTV if there are incentives on New Build Shared Ownership houses and flats of <=5%.
• Additional borrowing lowered to a minimum amount to £5,000 (previously £10,000), where there is an element of staircasing.
• Updated product range to support these changes.

John Scrivens, Skipton regional manager, said: “At Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries we look for ways to help more people own homes of their own, so we’re pleased to announce these fantastic changes to our Shared Ownership criteria.”