When Sam Rous, 23, spotted a two-bedroom new-build house in the village of
Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, on sale for £215,000 this summer, he knew it was
perfect. With 900 sq ft of space and a small garden, it was a great
first-time buy for him and his girlfriend, Lucy Fox, also 23, who works for
an exam body — and, unusually for first-time buyers, they had a 25% deposit.
So when he was told by RBS, his mortgage lender, that its surveyor had
valued the property at only £185,000 — leaving the couple to come up with
another £23,000 for their deposit — he was not best pleased.
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