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Earl Shilton BS mortgage application timeline

Hi, does anyone have any recent experience of receiving a mortgage offer from Earl Shilton?  My buyers are using them, and this week I was hoping to agree dates for exchange but I've found out today that they haven't even had their offer yet.  The process has taken 3 months so far, and the valuation was carried out by ES almost a month ago.  Is this typical?
Thanks

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  • ACG
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    Earl Shilton! That is a name I have not come across for a while. We used to send a few cases to them, they never took 3 months to get an offer issued. No lender should be taking 3 months that suggests your buyers are struggling to get an offer - I doubt anyones first choice is ESBS. 

    You probably need to have a pretty frank conversation with them to find out what the hold up is as I do not believe it is the lender. 
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  • ACG said:
    Earl Shilton! That is a name I have not come across for a while. We used to send a few cases to them, they never took 3 months to get an offer issued. No lender should be taking 3 months that suggests your buyers are struggling to get an offer - I doubt anyones first choice is ESBS. 

    You probably need to have a pretty frank conversation with them to find out what the hold up is as I do not believe it is the lender. 
    Thanks for this - pretty much what I was thinking as well.  
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