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Hi everyone,
thanks for reading this. It's a complex situation, so please let me appologise in advance for the convultedness!
Here's our situation:
My wife's father bought a flat in central london, but sadly died before it could be sorted out and sold. even more sadly, he didn't take any mortgage insurance. it's mortgage is about £360,000 but the property is now valued at somewher ebetween 1-1.5 Million.
Now the complications:
you may notice the big difference between the mortgage and the value. there's a number of reasons for this and they all add to the complexity of the situation. First, the property was bought in 2005, my father-in-law died in December 2006. And my wife, who is executor of the estate, only got grant of probate this year, for reasons many of you will figure out. Second, my wife is an interior/architectural designer, and this flat is going to be her show piece (it was in a terrible state when he got it and now, although not finished, is amazing)
The problems, obviously, are A) the delay in probate make things a little dodgy and B) we need to finish the works for my wife's portfolio.
Further complicating things: my wife has a very small credit footprint, I went Bankrupt in 09, discharged August 10, and my mother-in-law has missed some credit card payments and has her own mortgage, and so has a 'poor' credit score. My father has a good credit rating, and my mother-in-law owes my father £100,000
My Father has offerred to take a mortgage of £700,000 BTL mortgage to buy the place, which will give him his £100k, pay off the current, no transferable mortgage (who are understandably getting itchy, although we've been making all the payments) and give us the money to finish it and put it on the market. The problem there, however, is that he doesn't have available funds for the deposit. (he's also 69 and on a good pension) He's been okayed for a mortgage, assuming a sale price of £1million, but he has to have the deposit.
We've suggested to the broker that my mother-in-law takes out a bridging loan to pay off the current mortgage and have enough left to 'give' him the deposit, but the broker wasn't comfortable with that. Other whacky schemes that go no's and don't know's are:
My father takes a bridging loan to buy the place outright, then gets a 'first day remortgage' - will he still need the deposit, and also, there's very few 1st day remortgages available, if he doesn't get it, we're stuck with an expensive bridging loan for 6 months
we find somewhere that will offer a mortgage and accept a bridging loan deposit as we only need the deposit long enough for it to go from my father, throught the solicitors, to my mother-in-law - will this equal 100% loan and will anywhere do that
find somewhere that will lend _base_d on the value, not the sale price, and hence not require a deposit. (e.g. if it's valued at 1.2Mil, then the 700k mortgage doesn't need any deposit changing hand, it's still less than 70%LTV)
We had 2 products that the broker said would work, but the ended up not working, 1 because of the lack of deposit, the other as they only allow gifted deposits between blood relatives.
Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated as this is a make or break situation for everyone involved.
Thanks for your patience in reading this convuluted tale!
Andrew
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