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House/mortgage development question

Hi.

Sorry if this has been asked before so feel free to ignore if me asking again If it offends you.

My question is :

We have a 2 bed home which we are looking to extend or convert the loft to give us another bedroom.The house is worth £135000 and we have around 25000 equity in it so around 88% ish ltv. So not quite enough to remortgage for the home improvements.

If we got a further bedroom the house would say be worth a ball park figure of 145000 giving us an extra 10k to spend and around 90% ltv. Would mortgage companies lend us the money to do the improvements based on it being worth 145k when it's finished even though at present the house is only worth 135k ?

Hope this makes sense.

Mike

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  • Let_Us_See
    Let_Us_See Posts: 1,319 Forumite
    No, they won't. Only work of current value as there is no guarantee you will start and finish the conversion.
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