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House price change after mortgage has been offered

Just wondering if anyone has had any experience or has any knowledge in this sort of thing.

Background.

We put in an offer on a house, it was accepted and we started the ball rolling, solicitors are busy working we HAVE received our mortgage deed to sign.

On the second viewing we contacted the sellers about getting some work done on the house that we would like doing. This is nothing that would have any effect on a valuation survey, just something cosmetic.

The vendor has agreed to lower the selling price by £1700, the house is valued at £122,000

Will our lenders just amend the mortgage deed, or will we end up starting again from the beginning??

Thanks

Comments

  • selectcase
    selectcase Posts: 125 Forumite
    our buyers did this - no problems the lender will just amend price and send out new docs via solicitor -
  • PBA
    PBA Posts: 1,521 Forumite
    As long as you're not near the loan to value limit the lender should be able to amend the mortgage easily. Alternatively you could let the sale go through at the agreed price, but with the vendor giving you £1700 cash back on completion.
  • Mr_helpful
    Mr_helpful Posts: 3,233 Forumite
    Cash back route is probably easier if you can trust vendor. if purchase price is dropped the mortgage offer has to be rewritten and if as someone said you are on a LTV band your mortgage offer may go down.
    I like to give people as many choices as possible to do what I want them to. (Milton H Erickson I think)
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