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Mortgage company charging extra if you use small solicitors

pinkshoes · 2014-11-18 19:25:31

We wanted to use our local solicitor for our house purchase. They informed us that some mortgage lenders won't deal with them (as they are small), and they'd have to incur (and charge us) an additional £150 approximately to go through a solicitor that could deal with the mortgage lender for certain bits of the process.…

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amnblog Posts: 12,771 Forumite

19 November 2014 at 8:31PM

A good idea if you need a mortgage is to where it is coming from and what it will cost before you put an offer in. Certainly, before you appoint a solicitor.

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