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NatWest Mortgage with some adverse credit

After scouring this forum for advise, I thought I’d share our experience of getting our mortgage and new house!

Background
My credit history - clean and a reasonable salary of £55k. Already own a property that I am about to convert to a BTL mortgage.
Husbands credit history - mortgage arrears up until July 2017 due to tenants not paying the rent on his BTL. Salary of around £30k.


We had a 10% deposit for our new place.


Broker originally applied to Kent Reliance and we were declined!!! No explanation given!! Change of broker and they applied to NatWest.

Timescales as follows:

11.12.19 AIP submitted and accepted
17.12.19 valuation completed - we didn’t even know they’d done this!
18.12.19 full mortgage offer received - no additional information needed.
22.1.20 completed

I couldn’t recommend NatWest enough! They were really quick, especially with it being the Christmas period!

Comments

  • Congrats!! We just completed with NatWest on the 24th jan, they were brilliant!
    We applied with Santander and Halifax and both of them had our applications for around 6 weeks each and never had a response from them, NatWest offered us a mortgage offer within 24 hours of the viewing!
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