To ask how much you had for a house deposit

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Not something I can ask people in real life

We are looking to buy - is a 30% deposit about average, good or not so good? This if for a £350k house.

Good! We had 5% in 2016 - we would have preferred 10 but the market was moving faster than we could save

that's really good, but you will see by yourself if your mortgage rate is based on the percentage you borrow.

For my very first home had a £25k deposit for a £115 flat.

14k which was 10% on a flat in 2011, had a short lease and we spent the rest of our savings extending the lease two years later - almost doubled the property value just from that. Upsized by releasing 70k from it for our next house in 2014.
30% for a FTB is awesome.

140k on a 700k house which translates as 80%

First house I owned, nothing as got 100% mortgage (2003 - still own it though).

Second house 33k on a 330k house (so 10%).

The most recent one was bought jointly and some deposit cane from sale of the 330k house hence was higher.

We put 11k down on a £215k house (5%). Hopefully will have enough to do 10% on next house which will be around 350k

1st house - 14%
2nd house - 45%
3rd house - 47%

All increases due to rising in house prices and a little overpayment of mortgage.

First home (flat), we put down £10k on a flat worth £87k in 07. Now worth £160. Paid £46 deposit on house worth £225k. Rental on 1st property is paying the mortgage on our new home. 30% is a really good amount and will get you better deals.

First house, 21k (10%) 2 years ago, just about to buy second house with 150k deposit (approx 30%). 30% is a good amount in my opinion.

£12K, 10%

Living in the south.

15% - we had to borrow the vast majority of this from family

First 10% deposit plus all fees etc All subsequent purchases 100% plus fees

As FTBs in 1995 we had a 15% deposit, but that was down to dh's wonderfully generous grandparents, as opposed to any of our own savings.

Surely this is a boast thread? Does anybody really need to ask if £105,000 is good for a deposit?!

First house we paid cash, second house we had an 82% deposit.

Yes, 30% is good. I inherited some money so I had unusually good deposits (roughly 50%, 22%, 30% respectively) but about 10% is normal.

5% on a 105k flat that we paid 112k for (Edinburgh offers over strikes again, otherwise we've had put 10%) but we're just in the process of selling it for 181k and putting down 25% on a 185k flat (remainder to be spent on decoration/furniture/first family holiday with toddler). The prices where we are are astronomical right now - found the new place for a fixed price and had our flat on the market and our offer accepted subject to sale in two days. It took us one week to sell.

It's good our first deposit was 5%! About 4 and a half grand! That was only 3.5 years ago.

2006 = 10%
2010 = 22%
Our final house in a few years will be about 40%

I can't even remember.

50k on 148500.

1st house 10% in 2009
2nd house 30% in 2014
3rd house 40% in 2018 (hopefully)

Is it still possible to get a 100% mortgage? I know nothing about this sort of stuff

1st house was 5% so about £3500
Current house £30000 on a £150000 house

we put in everything we had - about 17%. If we could go back we'd have put 10% in and kept the extra few thousand for fees and some essential work when we moved in!

45% deposit from a combination of inheritance and years of saving. London so we still had a massive mortgage on top. We were very lucky.