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If you’ve had a County Court Judgment, a few missed payments, or even a full-blown bankruptcy in your recent past, a trip to the high street bank can feel brutal. The computer says no, the cashier shrugs, and suddenly the dream of a home in Heaton Moor or a flat near Manchester Piccadilly feels miles away. The good news? The UK mortgage market is far more forgiving than most people realise, and an adverse credit mortgage is not just possible, for thousands of buyers across Stockport and Greater Manchester it’s the route they actually take. What Counts as Adverse Credit? Adverse credit is a catch-all term for anything on your credit file that a lender could view as a risk. That includes missed or late payments on credit cards and loans, defaults, County Court Judgments (CCJs), Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs), debt management plans, bankruptcies, repossessions and even heavy use of payday lenders. The key word, though, is ‘could’. A single late mobile phone bill from four years ago is a very different animal to a discharged bankruptcy from last spring. Specialist lenders price and assess each of these differently, and part of a broker’s job is knowing which blemishes each lender will shrug off and which will stop them in their tracks. Why the High Street Often Says No High street banks use automated decision-making at the first stage of a mortgage application. Their systems score your file against a narrow set of criteria, and even a minor blip can
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