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Deposit for 300k house?

Hey, how much (roughly) would a deposit be for a 300k house?


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Original post by TSRsteven
Hey, how much (roughly) would a deposit be for a 300k house?


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Use a mortgage calculator to see what you can borrow and work out your deposit from that.
Original post by TSRsteven
Hey, how much (roughly) would a deposit be for a 300k house?


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The government runs a help to buy scheme which allows you to buy with a 5% deposit and so the minimum you will need is £15,000, however, it is strongly recommended against doing this and they say you should be aiming for a deposit of around 40%, in this case, £120,000
Original post by Breakingbank
The government runs a help to buy scheme which allows you to buy with a 5% deposit and so the minimum you will need is £15,000, however, it is strongly recommended against doing this and they say you should be aiming for a deposit of around 40%, in this case, £120,000



Wow £120k deposit is way too steep to save in this life time for me. :frown:
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The deposit you need will reflect the time period over which you wish to pay.
Original post by Breakingbank
The government runs a help to buy scheme which allows you to buy with a 5% deposit and so the minimum you will need is £15,000, however, it is strongly recommended against doing this and they say you should be aiming for a deposit of around 40%, in this case, £120,000


Government offering you a helping hand to be a wageslave for the rest of your life.

How nice of them.
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Original post by TSRsteven
Hey, how much (roughly) would a deposit be for a 300k house?


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I was going to say 10-15% (which was the norm a few years ago, and even 0% was relatively common) but then I found this...



Source: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-2918348/House-deposits-rise-71-000-tougher-lending-rules-stamp-duty-reforms-push-sums-laid-buyers-higher.html

Edit: note that this chart is ALL buyers, not just first time buyers. FTB deposits will typically be lower.
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First Time Buyers:

Original post by Simonthegreat
Wow £120k deposit is way too steep to save in this life time for me. :frown:


With a £15,000 deposit your monthly repayments will be around £1,700 over 25 years.. meaning you will pay roughly £500,000 back for the £285,000 borrowed. I would advise doing the best you can to save and reach that 40% mark :smile:

Original post by Ronda Rousey
Government offering you a helping hand to be a wageslave for the rest of your life.

How nice of them.


Haha exactly, too many people rush into buying a house because they can afford the 5% deposit.. little do they know they will be paying most their salary to it for the next 25 years.
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Original post by Breakingbank
With a £15,000 deposit your monthly repayments will be around £1,700 over 25 years.. meaning you will pay roughly £500,000 back for the £285,000 borrowed. I would advise doing the best you can to save and reach that 40% mark :smile:



Haha exactly, too many people rush into buying a house because they can afford the 5% deposit.. little do they know they will be paying most their salary to it for the next 25 years.


And the value of the house will have increased to £1,000,000 assuming 5% house price inflation.

Compound interest doesn't just affect your borrowings.

Also affordability criteria mean your 2nd statement doesn't happen any more. You would have to be earning enough to cover it comfortably.
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Original post by Simonthegreat
Wow £120k deposit is way too steep to save in this life time for me. :frown:


300k houses are expensive.

Original post by Breakingbank
With a £15,000 deposit your monthly repayments will be around £1,700 over 25 years.. meaning you will pay roughly £500,000 back for the £285,000 borrowed. I would advise doing the best you can to save and reach that 40% mark :smile:



Haha exactly, too many people rush into buying a house because they can afford the 5% deposit.. little do they know they will be paying most their salary to it for the next 25 years.

It's not really a realistic scenario though. Anyone borrowing 285k will be making over 65k anyway, so you're never paying most of your salary. And obviously anyone making 65k is going to be able to save more than 15k in short order unless they're completely irresponsible.
How the heck does anyone on an average graduate salary save a 40% deposit other than by living with their parents until they're 35?
Save up, be as frugal as you can. the government buy program is a shambls.
Original post by Snufkin
How the heck does anyone on an average graduate salary save a 40% deposit other than by living with their parents until they're 35?


By not buying a 300k house.
Original post by SmashConcept
By not buying a 300k house.


Easier said than done. The average price of a 1 bedroom studio in my town (which is the Chav capital of Hertfordshire) is around £150,000. A 2 bed house is very nearly 300k. I don't really want to move hundreds of miles from my friends and family just to be able to afford to buy somewhere.
Original post by Snufkin
How the heck does anyone on an average graduate salary save a 40% deposit other than by living with their parents until they're 35?


Don't live in London and live frugally.
Original post by Rakas21
Don't live in London and live frugally.


Still not possible.
Original post by Snufkin
Easier said than done. The average price of a 1 bedroom studio in my town (which is the Chav capital of Hertfordshire) is around £150,000. A 2 bed house is very nearly 300k. I don't really want to move hundreds of miles from my friends and family just to be able to afford to buy somewhere.


That is because nice houses in nice areas are expensive, and the chav capital of Hertfordshire is not exactly the trap capital of Detroit is it?? But I googled the place you mean and you can get 2 and 3 bed houses within 10 miles for ~200k. So not exactly hundreds of miles.

Also the poster you replied to was full of **** anyway because basically nobody saves a 40% deposit. In fact even if you saved a 40% deposit it would probably be a better idea to buy a worse house with a 30% deposit and using the leftover money to improve its condition.
Original post by Snufkin
Still not possible.


If we take an average post tax wage then the average person gets £1700 per month (based on £26k salary). Now for a single person living in Manchester or Leeds if they restrain themselves a bit it's fairly easy to live on about £1200 per month including rent so we can therefore assume they'll put £5 per year away which is £50k over a decade (near enough 40%).

So it's possible and most people will be closer to 35 than 30 but it's not an impossible tax.
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Original post by Snufkin
How the heck does anyone on an average graduate salary save a 40% deposit other than by living with their parents until they're 35?


20% each assuming you're buying with someone else.

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