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Can I vent about mortgage provider

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Yellow85 · 29/07/2021 16:11

Accepted an offer on our house back in April, porting our current mortgage and topping up to buy a bigger property. Anyways, our mortgage company have been absolutely shocking, our broker is losing his kind. We are due to conclude and still not had offer of loan paperwork despite the process all being completed. Apparently they just have to ‘move to offer’, but we’ve been waiting six weeks and still nothing. I called today to be told they couldn’t give me a timeframe, couldn’t tell me if I was looking at days or weeks. Or bloody months. No service level agreements because porting is ‘new to them’ and they’re behind as they are a ‘small team’. It’s a subsidiary of a large bank, not like it’s a back street set up.

Was I wrong to lose my sh*t? If your so overwhelmed, you shouldn’t be taking on more business? I’m kind of stuck as early term is £8k, which I’d rather not have to pay due to their lack of resource.

It’s driving me crazy as I’m worried we’ll lose our buyers/our new property.

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Livingintheclouds · 29/07/2021 16:24

It is shocking. Porting may be new to them (how hard is it?), but really it’s not much different than as if you were qualifying for a brand new mortgage. I’d escalate it up the level of management until you hit someone who knows what they’re doing and can actually do it!

Yellow85 · 29/07/2021 16:28

Doesn’t actually sound like any of them know what they are doing. They openly told me today they have sla’s for new mortgages but not for porting and just keep fobbing me off. Even after I told them I’m reporting the to the FCA for failures in process to the detriment of customers.

Broker seems to be optimistic we’ll get over the line next week, but they’ve promised that for the last 4!!

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