Moving home, but not porting
An existing Nationwide mortgage borrower, who is moving to a new property, can redeem their current mortgage in favour of another Nationwide mortgage product. They need to pay any Early Repayment Charges (ERC) that applies to the current mortgage (unless they are within the last three months of their current product deal ERC period).
We can’t accept purchase applications from existing borrowers moving home who intend to remortgage their existing property as a Buy to Let, unless the new lender will be The Mortgage Works. The existing Nationwide mortgage can’t be transferred to any other lender.
Consent to let
To request a permission to let form, your client can call the Mortgage Servicing team on 0345 730 20 11.
A 0.5% loading will be added to their existing interest rate where they're on a fixed or tracker rate product.
Where Consent to Let has been approved, your client won't be able to:
If your client has an application in progress to let the property, we won't consent until it has completed. This applies to the following applications:
- additional borrowing
- taking a new product as part of a Switch application
- adding or removing a borrower
- for a contract variation (for example changing the mortgage term or repayment method).
Applications that do progress might show incorrect information such as in the rate, total amount payable or monthly payment, as we will apply the loading rate separately.
Like for like
If your client(s) is an existing Nationwide mortgage customer moving home, we'll consider their application on a 'Like for Like' basis where:
- The total amount of the borrowing (excluding product fees if added), is no more than the existing borrowing
- There is no change of applicant(s) (i.e. not adding, removing or replacing an applicant)
- The borrower is not changing their current repayment method
- The term of the new mortgage is not shorter than the current term.
- We'll allow term extensions unless the borrower(s) is
- already retired OR
- the term extension takes the borrower(s) into retirement OR
- further into retirement.
On Like for Like applications we'll require you to provide all generated proofs. This includes Proof of Income.
If your client(s) mortgage is on Interest only and meets the above criteria (but fails affordability assessment), you must manually appeal these cases. You can do this through your BDM. They will then send your appeal to our underwriting team to review.
We'll require 3 months bank statements. This is in addition to the documents automatically requested when you submit an application.