EDINBURGH has been declared the hottest place to buy property in the UK – topping London and Glasgow in a nationwide league of rising house sales

Source Edinburgh Evening News

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-property-boom-sees-house-sales-soar-1-3484227

Contrary to reports in the press stating that mortgages are more difficult to obtain and taking longer to process, we have just had a case going from application to full offer in only five working days.

The ‘secret’ to getting your mortgage processed quickly is having a well packaged case- in other words providing all the documents required promptly in one package.

If nothing else this proves that at least some lenders have got efficient mortgage processing in place.