After selling a record number of homes in January via their Smart Move Scheme, Lisburn developer WJ Law decided to stage a “Home Buyer’s Workshop” to explain this success and offer the scheme to new homebuyers.

The builder brought a host of experts together for the event which was organized to mark the launch of the new Ballantine Garden Village development in Lisburn.

UTV’s Pamela Ballantine also came along to see the first properties in the striking new scheme.

More than 300 people kept a team of 22 experts working flat out for several hours, with four houses being sold on the spot.

On the back of Smartmove, we are seeing buyers getting interest rates of less than 4 per cent and hence interest payments of less than £350 per month.

We were overwhelmed by the interest in our Workshop and it is testament to how the problem of finding a huge deposit is keeping so many people from getting on the property ladder.”

Also attending the event were The Mayor of Lisburn, Ronnie Crawford and other representatives from Lisburn Council, Sprucefield Retail Park, and other leisure providers in the local area.

For more information on Smart Move, log onto www.wjlaw.co.uk/smartmove

Visitors were keen to find out about the highly successful Smart Move mortgage scheme and to take advantage of free advice from estate agents, mortgage lenders, interior designers, kitchen designers, bathroom, tile and fireplace suppliers.

Under Smart Move, WJ Law pays 25 per cent mortgage deposit for clients on any of their new homes. Buyers own their homes outright and the 25 per cent is repayable at market value if you sell the house or else within 10 years, whichever is first.

It’s a scheme which has proved particularly popular with first time buyers and which has seen a marked lift in sales for WJ Law, with 32 homes booked since the start of the year, compared to one booking in January 2008.

David Law said: “Being able to buy with virtually no deposit has been wonderful for buyers who were struggling to find a hefty deposit.