Mortgage Brokers + Probate & Estate Administration: The Challenge
As mortgage broker, preparing bank statements for probate & estate administration is a common but time-consuming task. Executors and solicitors handling probate need to review the deceased's bank statements to value the estate, identify debts, and distribute assets.
How BankScan AI Helps Mortgage Brokers with Probate & Estate Administration
Instantly convert applicant bank statements to Excel to verify income, identify regular commitments, and prepare affordability summaries. For probate & estate administration specifically, BankScan AI extracts Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits payable, regular inc automatically.
How Mortgage Brokers Handle Probate & Estate Administration
When preparing bank statements for probate & estate administration, mortgage brokers need to Mortgage brokers request 3-6 months of bank statements from applicants, review them for regular income deposits, identify committed expenditure such a. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: affordability assessment, committed expenditure, income verification, debt-to-income ratio.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload Date of death statement plus 6-12 months prior to identify regular commitments, standing orders, and direct debits to cancel of statements for probate & estate administration.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits — formatted for mortgage brokers workflows.
Complete your probate & estate administration work
Download Excel files ready for probate & estate administration. Date-of-death balance clearly stated, recurring payments listed separately for cancellation, all accounts of the deceased consolidated into one estate summary
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Mortgage Brokers — Probate & Estate Administration
- Built for Mortgage Brokers — Saves 30-45 minutes per mortgage application on statement review, which adds up to 5+ hours per week during busy periods with 8-10 applications in progress
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Mortgage Brain, Twenty7Tec, Excel
- Built for Probate & Estate Administration — Convert the deceased's bank statements to Excel for fast estate valuation, identification of standing orders, direct debits, and outstanding payments.
- Key data extracted — Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits payable, regular income sources, any joint account contributions, gifts made in the 7 years before death
Compliance: Mortgage Brokers + Probate & Estate Administration
When mortgage brokers prepare bank statements for probate & estate administration, specific compliance requirements apply.
- FCA regulations require mortgage brokers to conduct thorough affordability assessments under MCOB rules. They must verify income sources against bank statements, document their analysis, and retain records for at least 3 years. Anti-money laundering checks require scrutiny of the source of deposit funds.
- Legal basis: Administration of Estates Act 1925; Inheritance Tax Act 1984 sections 4 and 171; Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987
Probate & Estate Administration — Built for Mortgage Brokers
IHT400 must be submitted within 12 months of death to avoid interest charges; probate grant cannot be issued until HMRC receives the IHT forms
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