Monday, 13 July 2015

I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long...

Spotted by Lola in The Telegraph:

[The couple has] no debts apart from a £40,000 mortgage on their home, which is worth £130,000. They bought the house for £50,000 through the Right to Buy scheme in 2013 and so they can’t sell it for another three years...

Georgina Partridge, partner at Plutus Wealth Management:

"Stuart’s goal to upsize to a three-bed house is certainly achievable on the couple’s current level of income. In three years, they expect the equity in their current home to be £70,000 [it's £90,000 already!]. This can be used as a deposit for their new property or split into a deposit for a new house and a buy-to-let.

A three-bed property in their area will cost around £160,000. If they put down the full £70,000 as a deposit, they will have access to good rates with most lenders. For a buy-to-let, they should be looking at a 25pc deposit. If they split the £70,000 equity, £40,000 could go towards the new home, leaving £30,000 for a buy-to-let."

2 comments:

Rich Tee said...

Buy to Let is really starting to remind me of the USA just before the Wall Street Crash, or even the recent events in China.

In 1929, a chap called Joseph Kennedy allegedly realised that the stock market was massively overvalued when a shoe shine boy gave him a stock tip.

Here we have a couple who don't even own their ex-council house outright speculating with debt.

Lola said...

I managed to avoid re-reading that bloody article yesterday and now you've gone and posted it again...
Sigh.