79k....
If true - and I doubt it very much - then it will have been a distressed sale.
£79k is way below its market value. If I entrusted somebody to get 'best price' and only ended up with £79k and, presumably even less than that after commissions etc. were deducted, then the rat is smelling strongly.
If a finance company owned it, they are well experienced in achieving best price and will have know exactly what it was worth.
Give us all the poop. It will make interesting reading.
Or, is it something you overheard in a pub.....
Give us the Reg.
JB