Hi, I am looking for any perspectives or advice from you very wise people. We are living outside of the UK currently due to DH's work. We have rented while away for several years plus for a period before we left the UK as we sold our house. We are planning to move back to the UK this summer. I simply cannot bear the thought of yet another period in a rental property. I have been told that we will not be able to get a mortgage straight away as the banks will want us to have lived and worked back in the UK for a while.
My question is this. We will have about £120000 in savings when we move back to south west England. I know this would not buy much but we are considering finding a small, cheap property and buying it outright in the first instance. Then a year or two down the line, we could look at trading up with a mortgage and any additional savings. Does this sound like a reasonable idea? Does it sound mad? Any thoughts? I'm struggling to see the wood for the trees here with trying to plan it all.
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greenscarves · 04/09/2016 13:16
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