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Need professional advice for your consent to let with Halifax? There are various implications when it comes to letting out your property with an existing residential mortgage - you should seek professional assistance.

Halifax Consent to Lease Example Support Desk Enquires

  • We've been renting my wife's old house out with "consent to let" from Halifax on a standard mortgage for the past three years. Halifax have advised of their intention of withdrawing their consent to let if we do not transfer to one of their "buy to let" mortgages.

  • I am a landlord having served eviction orders on a tenant who is in arear of rent. A Section 21 and section 8 have been served. The tenant's defense for non payment is premised on the assertion that I lack consent to let my maisonette from my mortgage company Halifax
  • I am unable to find the form to download "consent to let" on the Halifax website. Could you please send me a link to do it? Many thanks.
  • My husband and I currently live in Melbourne and renting out our apartment in Islington. This was unplanned but an opportunity presented itself and we took it. The rental income is insufficient to cover the mortgage so we send back funds each month to make up the shortfall. Anyway this morning I got a letter in the post from our lender telling me that as the property is being let out and has been for nearly four years we will have to pay 1.5% interest on top of our current mortgage rate. We could sell the flat but this will be difficult as I am so far away. Could we remortgage with Halifax and get consent to let?
  • I took a homeowner mortgage with Halifax and with my circumstances changing significantly in the last three months, can I apply for consent to let. What changes will affect me?
  • We are trying to discover which lenders are best for allowing consent-to-let without hiking up rates, and hopefully allowing more than 2 years if required. Is that something you can assist me with? We are particularly interested in Halifax
  • Will Halifax choose to operate a right to switch the rates on a owner-occupier mortgage where Consent to Let at any time, onto ‘rates equivalent to their Buy to Let range'? Is it possible to remortgage on a consent to let with Halifax?
  • I am going away for work for as long as a year... I was wondering if I was able to get from Halifax consent to let the house out while abroad as I am reluctant to leave it unattended for that period