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Honour mortgage in principles if they run out in quarantine/pandemic

Submitted on Sunday 22nd March 2020

Rejected on Friday 24th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Honour mortgage in principles if they run out in quarantine/pandemic

Petition Details

For those who are in the process of purchasing properties and have a mortgage in principle should be protected too and any mortgage in principle should be honoured due to the pandemic if the time is exceeded.

Additional Information

because it always sounds better coming from the government then coming from someone who walked into a building society or bank and the government is able to help more having this in place will help the housing market during the pandemic as well as the uncertainty of having to find other buyers or other housing.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament are not responsible for the issue you raise. Decisions about mortgage agreements are for individual lenders, not the Government or Parliament.

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