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  • We had offer of 380k accepted on a house listed for 350k (mad market, not in London) and are about to have the lender valuation done for the mortgage. We have 80k deposit (21% ltv). 300k loan.

    If the lender comes back and says it's worth significantly under how fucked are we? We could probably scrape together another 10k worth of deposit and doubt seller would budge much, if at all, on agreed price.

    Does lender primarily care about their stake being recoverable (300k)? Would I only need to worry if there was risk of them undervaluing to below 300k (v low risk)?

  • Any shortfall on the value you would need to make up with cash.

    Worked example:

    • you bid £380k with £80k cash on hand
    • Lender values at £350k
    • £30k of your deposit would go towards bridging the value gap (380- 350 = 30)
    • You would be left with £50k deposit on a £350k valuation, i.e. £50k deposit, £300k loan, LTV of 14%.

    You could probably find a mortgage at this LTV, but you would obviously have a higher interest rate.

    I have done you a sensitivity table:


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  • Ahh I see - I think the bit I was getting lost is that we would still be able to get the necessary mortgage with remaining deposit. It would just be a worse interest rate - we wouldn't necessarily be completely out of the purchase.

    Thanks very much, big help

  • These LTVs are (1-x) I think

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