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Santander mortgage timeline
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Not sure where I am at the moment with my application. At the moment just hoping no news is good news.
Application has been in just under 1 week so not sure if too early to be pestering for updates.0 -
cloudkicker18 said:Not sure where I am at the moment with my application. At the moment just hoping no news is good news.
Application has been in just under 1 week so not sure if too early to be pestering for updates.
Ours is a week tomorrow,we have had a desktop valuation, requested extra to see if we paid things off like my sofa and then should have a offer, fingers crossedcloudkicker18 said:Not sure where I am at the moment with my application. At the moment just hoping no news is good news.
Application has been in just under 1 week so not sure if too early to be pestering for updates.0 -
Has your broker kept you up to date as it has gone on or have you had to chase? All I know with my application is I can see there has been a couple of hard checks on my Experian file.
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My broker has kept us up to date on everything, just hoping we will hear by tomorrowcloudkicker18 said:Has your broker kept you up to date as it has gone on or have you had to chase? All I know with my application is I can see there has been a couple of hard checks on my Experian file.0 -
Santander came back with more queries today for us. Hoping we're nearly there!Cookie211 said:
My broker has kept us up to date on everything, just hoping we will hear by tomorrowcloudkicker18 said:Has your broker kept you up to date as it has gone on or have you had to chase? All I know with my application is I can see there has been a couple of hard checks on my Experian file.0 -
peacetrustlove said:Just revised the timeline and reformatted it for fellow-mortgage applicants24/02 DIP24/02 Experian Soft Check02/03 Full Application05/03 Valuation Instructed11/03 Desktop Valuation15/03 Documents Requested16/03 Documents Submitted by MA16/03 Experian Hard Check18/03 Internal Valuation Instructed23/03 Internal Valuation Completed25/03 Valuation Report Received
The Waiting Game Continues

30/03 Existing property query. Back to queue.31/03 Tax Overview for previous 2 years and 3 months Business Statements requested. Back to queue.Hoping we are almost there. 😬0 -
It’s a pain as I suppose they off Friday and Monday as it’s bank holiday0
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I take it everytime you submit answers to their queries you get put to the back of the underwriting queue again?Cookie211 said:It’s a pain as I suppose they off Friday and Monday as it’s bank holiday0 -
Yes that’s right, horrible to wait all the time031192vy353 said:
I take it everytime you submit answers to their queries you get put to the back of the underwriting queue again?Cookie211 said:It’s a pain as I suppose they off Friday and Monday as it’s bank holiday0
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