New house Purchase April 2016

[ned official]

Hi folks, we purchased a new house last April for 300k. If we had purchased in July we would be entitled to 15k back in the rebate for first time buyers. Is there any way around this or some loophole I can work with solicitors to push date out to July. We feel very hard done by with budget, we have big credit card bill as basically lived off cc for 2 months before drawing down as we needed every last penny possible to meet the new ltv rules. Any advice or just suck it up and put it down to bad timing

 

[emeralds]

Are all contracts signed and money and keys exchanged?

 

[ned official]

Yes all happened in April

 

[Gordon Gekko]

Game over so. Scant consolation, but there has to be a cut-off.

 

[Sue Ellen]

Is the house the same price now as it was last April?

 

[ned official]

The development was sold out but new phase with exact same houses are on sale for 5k more now

 

[Sue Ellen]

Hard to take but it means that you are actually at a loss of 10k rather than 15k. Definitely would have been great to get both but such is life with its swings and roundabouts

 

[Sue Ellen]

Hard to take but it means that you are actually at a loss of 10k rather than 15k. Definitely would have been great to get both but such is life with its swings and roundabouts