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Egg

Who will egg lend to have just applied for a mortgage with Egg and have been turned down reason given credit check ,wanted to borrow £167000 on a house valuation £400000 ,my husband earns in excess of £110.000 per year we have no loans nor credit cards and have a perfect credit rating have never missed a payment nor been late paying ,the only loan showing is for a car loan which comes under the company car scheme for which we receive the full sum ,the daft thing is my husbands job is head of financial risk for a large financial group so has to have a clean financial record and is checked yearly so if we can not get a loan who can?

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  • immy
    immy Posts: 227 Forumite
    perhaps egg dont want any new customers.
  • 1sue23
    1sue23 Posts: 1,788 Forumite
    I think you are right what is annoying why do a credit check before the affordability questions as this check will now effect my once blemish free rating.
  • bermondse1
    bermondse1 Posts: 36 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Combo Breaker
    See the thread on "Egg Mortgage Refused"....there's a stream of similar observations...
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