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Anyone want to join me? Awaiting Mortgage decision...
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We got ours! Took about 2 and a half months, start to finish. Super relieved! Bring on moving day.Initial Mortgage July 2015: £170,995
Current Mortgage: £159,4020 -
justamummy wrote: »This is my time line so far
1/7 - DIP
3/7 - full application senty to halifax
9/7 - Broker requested further evidance of matinace payments.
9/7 - valuation booked for 15/7
10/7 - proof of maintiance sent to broker.
17/7 - Broker recived full offer letter
20/7 - I recvied full offer letter.0 -
charliewocka wrote: »BTL valuation booked for the 29th. The wait will kill me!
Just got confirmation that residential mortgage survey is booked - 5th August! Argh!Do you think it's worth us calling them and asking to contact the EA if there is a cancellation in the meantime?
Valuers are Countrywide - if they are as good as their mortgage brokers and conveyancing I'm not holding out much!!0 -
an_ecunemical_matter wrote: »Applied for remortgage online with Firstdirect yesterday 3pm. Call 5.50pm last night from a friendly chap to discuss same but I was eating microwave magic at McSpoons. So I phone them today 2pm. Terrible waiting music but go through the next part of process. Another good and friendly agent. Took about 40 mins.
Get a call back then 4pm. Approved !!!!!
I moved bank to them and now got a mortgage with them. Can't but recommend. :T
Quoting my own post but mortgage completed on 15/07/15. Almost 5 weeks. No glitches/pitfalls at all. Well done to FD and also to solicitors ENACT (they were a total contrast to the cowboys that YBS used last time Optima legal)...........:T0 -
Well we have finally received our mortgage offer from RBS 4 weeks and 4 days after our application went in and was approved at the branch. Every time we had to send them something in it took 1 week for them to review it, make a decision and move to the next stage. It took them 4 days to print the documents out and post them!
Now our solicitor has had to go to the bank with a small issue about land. There is a small bit of our garden that is not on the title deeds. However the solicitor has contacted the valuer who has said that removing that portion of land from the garden would not affect the valuation price. Hopefully the bank are ok with this and we can get a completion date organised quickly!
It's amazing that after you pass each stage of the process you have a moment of feeling relieved before you start worrying about the next bit! It's horrible!02/02/11: MBNA CC: £1700 RBS CC: £3800 Nationwide CC: £2300
Money Owed to parents: £1800
Aim to be debt free by July 29th 2016! :eek:0 -
an_ecunemical_matter wrote: »Quoting my own post but mortgage completed on 15/07/15. Almost 5 weeks. No glitches/pitfalls at all. Well done to FD and also to solicitors ENACT (they were a total contrast to the cowboys that YBS used last time Optima legal)...........:T
Great news, congratulations.
how long did it take from getting the offer through to completion?02/02/11: MBNA CC: £1700 RBS CC: £3800 Nationwide CC: £2300
Money Owed to parents: £1800
Aim to be debt free by July 29th 2016! :eek:0 -
Just in case it is helpful for anyone. We viewed a property on 1st June, mortgage applications done 3rd June for a buy to let on ours and then residential on the new one. We had offers from both TSB (btl) and woolwich on 12 and 13th June. Due to complete tomorrow (hold up due to a title issue). Very quick and much easier than I expected - both only asked for 1 month payslip.
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Throwing my progress in... so far..
15th July – AIP submitted
21st July – AIP granted
21st July – Solicitor starts searches etc
22nd July – Supporting documents and ID sent to broker
24th July – Full application submitted
Hoping for valuation maybe early August, target for completion would be before the bank holiday but don't know how realistic that is. (no chain either side)0 -
Buying a house with my wife. Just submitted mortgage application to Yorkshire BS on Thursday (AiP was considerably in excess of what we need) - so I'm hopeful it succeeds. Anyone have any recent experience of YBS to offer advice on how long it's likely to take? We've asked for Valuation + Home Buyer Survey. For the size/cost of the house it seemed like a worthwhile thing, although the house itself is only 12 years old. Does that seem reasonable?0
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Hi, I'm new to the group! I was trying to figure out how to start my own forum but couldn't figure out
I'm also waiting for a mortgage decision from precise mortgage, don't know if anyone's tried but would be great if u coined shred experience. But my main question is that this lender has thier own panel of conveyancers. They say they will instruct them themselves, but I was wondering exactly when the lenders do this. As I thought that solicitor does searches while mortgage application is being processed.
Thank you0
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