Two flats, one title, help!

The Client
Harry lived in his father's property with his wife and child. A few years ago, he was gifted a property from his father as a buy to let investment. The property was a freehold building converted into two flats with two tenancies. Harry wanted to remortgage the property to raise a deposit so that he and his wife could purchase their own home.

The Challenge
Harry couldn’t find a lender willing to lend on the property as despite being a freehold building, the lenders he approached didn't like the fact the property had been converted into two flats.

The Solution
As specialists in the buy to let market, we have lots of lenders willing to accept converted buildings with some buildings being split up into 20 units, this is a called a Multi Unit Freehold Block (MUFB) mortgage. Fortunately, we also have buy to let lenders that will offer their traditional buy to let rates on properties split into two units such as Harry's. We recommended, applied and successfully secured Harry a mortgage raising £600,000 for them to move forward with their lives and put down a deposit for their new home together.