Coronation Street ‘reveals’ new owner of Gail Platt’s house – but fans spot glaring issue

Coronation Street viewers were a bit confused as they were informed a character planned to buy Gail Platt’s house on Wednesday night.

Days on from the character in question being exposed as the person who stole Damon Hay’s cash, they announced it was pretty much a done deal in terms of becoming the new owner of the house. But amid Carla Connor hoping to buy the house from Gail, it was someone else who apparently had a mortgage offer.

Gail’s son David Platt surprised Carla and his partner Shona on Wednesday as he confirmed he’d discussed getting a mortgage. David had previously owned the house before being scammed into selling it to Ray Crosby a few years ago.

The house was later bought by Gail, and now David is keen to buy it back ahead of Gail’s exit. He seemed to suggest this was on the cards too, but Carla was very suspicious.

She was clearly wondering where David would get the money to pay for it, after he claimed he had been offered a 100% mortgage. She was not buying this at all, while fans know David has stolen a huge sum of cash and only Jesse Chadwick knows about it.

Shona was thrilled as her husband claimed they’d been offered the 100% mortgage, meaning they could borrow the entire value of the house. This would possibly allow David to explain why he could afford it, as he can just say he doesn’t need to pay a deposit.

But surely given David was seemingly broke and couldn’t offer anything towards niece Bethany Platt’s medical bills, hence Gail offering to sell the house, people are going to question whether such a deal would be accepted? And if David suddenly starts spending the money or having the cash to pay back the mortgage, or even buy the house, there’s going to be questions.

If David also has to give the money back if he is caught out, surely he won’t be able to afford to own the house? Whether David is lying and plans to somehow buy the house with the cash, or pay towards it, remains to be seen.

Carla’s questions and Jesse finding out he likely stole the money could cause him a big problem. It seems likely that if David really has got the offer on the table, someone is going to question it enough to the point he gets found out.

Where the mortgage is concerned, one baffled fan wrote on X: “David’s got 100% mortgage!!! No regular income, self -employed. Show us the accounts.” Another said: “Which bank manager on this earth would grant David Platt a mortgage.” as a third said: “Like David would get a 100% mortgage LOL.”