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Porting a mortgage question
HaggaAgga1971
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Hi, we are currently selling our house and buying a house worth £20,000 less. We want to keep the £20k to do the new house up. We have a small mortgage left of £34k with Barclays and have been told we can port this and keep the same rate, but I have been looking into it and it looks like we have to do a completely new mortgage application? We have been in our current house for 22 years, and we are worried that we may fail the application due to a £7000 credit card balance and use of our overdrafts every month. Am I worrying unnecessarily? We don't want to increase the mortgage, just transfer it, and surely they can see we are affording it every month now? We have never missed a payment, or got in arrears with anything and have a good credit score, it's just the credit card balance and overdrafts I am worrying about. Would like to hear other people's experience of this. Sorry for the long post.
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Yes, someone told me to put it onto the mortgage group instead0
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Yes you need to reapply. 'Porting' means you can continue the current mortgage product on the mortgage on the new property if that suits your needs.
You do not port the mortgage, you apply for a new mortgage on the new property, paying off your old mortgage as you take your new mortgage.
A credit card balance and using overdrafts within their limits does not preclude you from being accepted for a new mortgage/I am a Mortgage Broker
You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Broker, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.0 -
Thank you so much0
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