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  • Mine has basically fallen through now. The buyer is back looking for alternatives and unless my situ changes in the next 2 weeks they will buy something else.

    It means I have to become a landlord which isn't awful but not what I wanted. Luckily I'm on a tracker mortgage.

  • Mine has basically fallen through now. The buyer is back looking for alternatives and unless my situ changes in the next 2 weeks they will buy something else.

    I didn't realise you'd got a buyer, I thought the whole issue was you couldn't sell it without an EWS1 certificate? Think I must have missed something.

  • The issue would be you couldn't mortgage it. So you could sell it, for cash. But then that buyer would struggle to get a buyer further down the road who wasn't also a cash buyer.

  • Yeah, I've had a buyer the whole time. It was their mortgage application that made me discover about the EWS1

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