Contractor Guides

We’ve designed our contractor guides to help you optimise your contracting business. Whether you’re brand new to contracting or experienced, there’s always something new to learn.

Contractor mortgage lenders

Kensington Mortgages contractor mortgage lending criteria

Contractor mortgage lenders

Hodge Bank contractor mortgage lending criteria

Struggling to get a mortgage

Are you struggling to get a mortgage because you're a contractor?

A contractor's guide to remortgages and remortgaging

Spacious living room of BTL apartment

Guide to buy-to-let mortgages for contractors

two men looking at designs

Mortgage guide for Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) workers

Guide to applying for a mortgage as a contractor

Young couple moving to a new home relaxing sitting using computer laptop, smiling happy for moving to new apartment

A contractor's guide to moving home

IR35 contractor

Contracting matters

What is IR35? Am I outside off-payroll rules or inside IR35?

Protect your income

Protection insurance

Essential guide to income protection cover for contractors

Critical illness

Protection insurance

Critical illness cover for contractors: a tailored guide

Protection insurance

Relevant Life insurance cover for independent contractors