Can you transfer a mortgage offer?

lemliss

Long and short
Been approved for a mortgage, sellers solicitors haven't responded to any calls or emails from our solicitors in 8 weeks, their offices are closed due to covid, seller not very helpful in chasing (we are renting the property we are buying currently)
Is it a possibility to transfer our mortgage offer (Nationwide) to another property? 
I was originally just going to threaten this to try get them moving but now I've thought about it im interested to know...

Thrugelmir

Vendors solicitor works for their client. What has you LL actually said? 

hounsehunterftb

Nationwide doesn’t let you transfer it to another property. We had our offer ready too and the purchase didn’t go through. However when our offer was accepted on another property, we went to Nationwide to see if this was an option. They advised that we would have to make a completely new application unfortunately. 

lemliss

Thrugelmir said:

Vendors solicitor works for their client. What has you LL actually said? 

He says he has tried to get in touch and a few times they have said nothing has been recieved but for the past 2 weeks haven't responded to him at all. So infuriating.