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Brendan
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Heard the same from a guy use to do a bit of work for, they moved to private funding. The banks would sniff a huge pay off then move the goalposts into another field either through rate increases or moving payment deadline forwardsBanks are ruthless . I had a very hard time with them in 2009 . Withdrew funding during a prospective pair of houses I was building and increased my interest payments on what I owed to date . Then they quadrupled my overdraught interest payments . They were angling to repossess them as they knew I had a good bit of equity in them . I struggled to finish the first one and then pure luck I got it sold . Then with the funding from the first sale I finished the second and sold it . Everyone got paid including the bank who made more money than anyone . I was the only looser, even after doubling the value of the plot by buying it with planning for one and getting planning for 2 agreed on it . They handed me my arse back and that was all I got after months and months of sleepless nights at the hands of the bastards .
I’ve never done a prospective build since.
At the time the architect told me if you owe the bank 200K you have a big problem , if you owed the bank 2Million then the bank would have the big problem !