Mortgage Advice?
Mortgage Advice?
Stoney I knew it was expensive down here, but the prices you guys are talking about sound crazy low, I might have to move up there!
The FLAT I rent off a mate is valued at £240k, and costs me £750 a month plus (a lot of) bills. Rent is high here, but I could not even consider a mortgage to buy a house in Exeter, they would laugh me out of the bank!
Stoney I knew it was expensive down here, but the prices you guys are talking about sound crazy low, I might have to move up there!
The FLAT I rent off a mate is valued at £240k, and costs me £750 a month plus (a lot of) bills. Rent is high here, but I could not even consider a mortgage to buy a house in Exeter, they would laugh me out of the bank!
I used to work for a bank dealing with mortgage applications - the bank will look more favourably on a joint application (even if there's only one of you contributing/paying) as it spreads their risk over two people rather than one..
So long as your wife doesn't have a poor credit history, add her onto the application. I've seen that make a difference to underwriters...
Anees I am self-employed and before the bank would give me a mortgage I needed 20% deposit.
Good Luck in your search Saraj.
I have heard that Burney and Nelson have low property prices. What kind of areas are these cheaper properties in? Is there much of a rental market?
DaveEdin I used to work for a bank dealing with mortgage applications - the bank will look more favourably on a joint application (even if there's only one of you contributing/paying) as it spreads their risk over two people rather than one..
So long as your wife doesn't have a poor credit history, add her onto the application. I've seen that make a difference to underwriters...
Anees I am self-employed and before the bank would give me a mortgage I needed 20% deposit.
Good Luck in your search Saraj.
I have heard that Burney and Nelson have low property prices. What kind of areas are these cheaper properties in? Is there much of a rental market?
DaveEdin I used to work for a bank dealing with mortgage applications - the bank will look more favourably on a joint application (even if there's only one of you contributing/paying) as it spreads their risk over two people rather than one..
So long as your wife doesn't have a poor credit history, add her onto the application. I've seen that make a difference to underwriters...
Saraj so you saying even my wife doesnt work or earn money put her name down anyhow? hmm.....
Saraj so you saying even my wife doesnt work or earn money put her name down anyhow? hmm.....
Anees That is true. When I applied for mine, the mortgage advisor at the bank said to put my wife down. Even though she does not work at the moment due to taking care of our baby (a much harder job!) because the child benefit was in her name it counted as extra income so did help the application. :thumbup1:
Anees That is true. When I applied for mine, the mortgage advisor at the bank said to put my wife down. Even though she does not work at the moment due to taking care of our baby (a much harder job!) because the child benefit was in her name it counted as extra income so did help the application. :thumbup1:
We recently bought a house, all be it for alot more money but house prices here are quite high.
Our Credit raiting is very good. I have no credit cards or loans and Sarah has 1 credit card that she pays off in full each month. Our house was bought for £155k and we put a 20% deposit down (£31k). We where really lucky and only had a 20% deposit as we saved for 3 years solid and Sarah's parents gave us £10k.
We saw a few banks about mortgages but only got a idea of what they would lend us. We went to a broker as well but they don't charge for there advice. Instead they get a finders fee from the provider so we don't get charged. In the end they couldn't offer us a rate as good as Natwest so we went directly to them. As we had a good deposit our rates are 4.19% fixed for 2 years which is the best we could get at the moment.
When you looked at the other mortgagaes did you actually apply for them? Reason i ask is that we where told if you apply for over 3 mortgages and don't take them out or get declined it actually goes against your credit rating!
I think if you had a 15% deposit then you should be ok.
Good luck with getting it sorted.
Jason
Demon We recently bought a house, all be it for alot more money but house prices here are quite high.
Our Credit raiting is very good. I have no credit cards or loans and Sarah has 1 credit card that she pays off in full each month. Our house was bought for £155k and we put a 20% deposit down (£31k). We where really lucky and only had a 20% deposit as we saved for 3 years solid and Sarah's parents gave us £10k.
We saw a few banks about mortgages but only got a idea of what they would lend us. We went to a broker as well but they don't charge for there advice. Instead they get a finders fee from the provider so we don't get charged. In the end they couldn't offer us a rate as good as Natwest so we went directly to them. As we had a good deposit our rates are 4.19% fixed for 2 years which is the best we could get at the moment.
When you looked at the other mortgagaes did you actually apply for them? Reason i ask is that we where told if you apply for over 3 mortgages and don't take them out or get declined it actually goes against your credit rating!
I think if you had a 15% deposit then you should be ok.
Good luck with getting it sorted.
Jason
Demon We recently bought a house, all be it for alot more money but house prices here are quite high.
Our Credit raiting is very good. I have no credit cards or loans and Sarah has 1 credit card that she pays off in full each month. Our house was bought for £155k and we put a 20% deposit down (£31k). We where really lucky and only had a 20% deposit as we saved for 3 years solid and Sarah's parents gave us £10k.
We saw a few banks about mortgages but only got a idea of what they would lend us. We went to a broker as well but they don't charge for there advice. Instead they get a finders fee from the provider so we don't get charged. In the end they couldn't offer us a rate as good as Natwest so we went directly to them. As we had a good deposit our rates are 4.19% fixed for 2 years which is the best we could get at the moment.
When you looked at the other mortgagaes did you actually apply for them? Reason i ask is that we where told if you apply for over 3 mortgages and don't take them out or get declined it actually goes against your credit rating!
I think if you had a 15% deposit then you should be ok.
Good luck with getting it sorted.
Jason
What Banks will also do is look at any other loans that you may have.
So its important to make sure these are cleared first.
Do not apply to too many companies as other have said or this will work against you.
Also the banks will look at the time your been working with your present employees.
Good luck with the post office.
As others have said and I said earlier get at least 15%. I am selling my house and turned 5 buyers away because they had less then 15% at the advice of the estate agent.
I hope my current buyer don't mess me about as much as the previous one.
Marsdendean ^^ I only had 10% and had the solicitor change the paperwork so it worked out as a 10% + 5% vendor paid . . .
Marsdendean ^^ I only had 10% and had the solicitor change the paperwork so it worked out as a 10% + 5% vendor paid . . .