
The purchase price will not be adjusted for incentives, unless the total amount of incentives exceeds 5% of the purchase price.

If however the property is a help to buy purchase the maximum incentive allowable is 5% as per the scheme rules.

The previous property has now been sold and the applicants are looking for a mortgage on the new property with funds to be used to repay the bridging loan. Bridging: residential mortgage applications where the customers required a bridging loan due to delays in selling the existing property, subject to normal underwriting.The lending would be restricted to the lower of the original purchase price or valuation. Customer funded purchase: when the customer has funded the purchase using their own funds or funds from a close family member and are now looking to set up a mortgage.

Solicitors are required to disclose any transaction in the last six months and, if this happens, cases will be declined after offer unless the circumstances meet one of the following situations in which lending may be considered: Back to back is typically where the vendor has owned the property for less than six months, or remortgages where they've owned the property for less than six months.
