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How old were you when you first got a mortgage?

383 replies

RolyPolyBatFace · 18/06/2021 20:48

My DD is 22 and buying her first house. She was lucky to leave university and get a well paid job and really wants to get onto the property ladder. (We are assisting with a deposit however!)

Anyway it got me thinking - how old were you when you got your mortgage? I was 30 odd so 22 seems very young to me

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mamaoffourdc · 18/06/2021 20:49

Signed mortgage papers with my boyfriend at the time on my 18th birthday

Seiheiki · 18/06/2021 20:50

18

SamG93 · 18/06/2021 20:51

Last year at 27

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Chicchicchicchiclana · 18/06/2021 20:54

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D0D0 · 18/06/2021 20:55

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CMOTDibbler · 18/06/2021 20:55
  1. It was a teeny tiny house furnished with my parents cast offs. The only thing new was my cat who I got as a kitten the week after I moved in.
Sleepyquest · 18/06/2021 20:55

26 and no help with deposit

Undertheoldlindentree · 18/06/2021 20:55

29...so graduated and had a few years of shared houses and rented flats before I took the plunge!

NannyAndJohn · 18/06/2021 20:55
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19 in 1978

Brissiegirl · 18/06/2021 20:55

27, two house moves and 30 years later we are mortgage free this month

flightofthecrow · 18/06/2021 20:56

40!

Bythemillpond · 18/06/2021 20:56

18

squiglet111 · 18/06/2021 20:56

First house when I was about 23. Then 7 years later got divorced and had to sell that. Bought again last year when 37!

TheGriffle · 18/06/2021 20:56

I was a week shy of my 23rd birthday when we moved into our house.

CarolineForbes · 18/06/2021 20:57

23 in 2012. Grotty flat but it got me on the ladder!

DolphinBlue1 · 18/06/2021 20:57

24 and just about to get my second at 27

wanderedlonelyasacloud · 18/06/2021 20:57

22 (in 2015)