I am currently looking to apply for a loan at the stated apr of 6.1%. I have an "excellent band" credit score of 946 (+11 soon in few days) on experian and when i did a loan search of £25,000 on experian and compare the market. It says I am 90% likely and 70% likely respectively to recieve the loan from tesco.

However, these were soft searches but I know my credit points will drop for every hard loan search. The thing is, if I do get accepted but the rate is higher than 6.1% for £25,000 loan then I only want to loan £10,000 at whatever rate it is. However, if I get the 6.1% rate for £25,000 then its all good.

I just wanted to ask if I can apply to get a loan for £25,000 and the rate comes out more than 6.1%, would I have to do a second "Hard search" for the £10,000. I don't want to run x2 hard credit searches for the loan.