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To ask how much your owe on your mortgage and your age?

678 replies

Pussywilloww · 13/06/2023 22:14

Recently remortgaged and the massive rate rise got us thinking. Made me wonder - what is the average people owe? Yes it depends on area/value/when bought etc. But to make it simple I'd be interested in
A) how much owed
B) your age

I'll go first! We owe £115k and I'm 31.

OP posts:
Bumdealoftheweek · 13/06/2023 22:51

300k across 2 houses
44 and 42

AllTheChaos · 13/06/2023 22:52

£345k
55% LTV
45 years

Talia99 · 13/06/2023 22:52

£22,000 (currently sitting in savings waiting for end of fixed rate); Age 47.

Propertyhuntingsucks · 13/06/2023 22:52

Mortgage free age 44
two properties, main home and a BTL

grumpycow1 · 13/06/2023 22:53

268k
age 38 and 37

Sotheysaid · 13/06/2023 22:55

495000
LTV 74%
36 & 40

Wicksytricksy · 13/06/2023 22:55

£0
41&42

Might move to a bigger house in the next year - 18 months and will have to get a mortgage for that. Were saving hard so hoping we won't need to lend more than £100k.

VerticalSausages · 13/06/2023 22:55

Over a million and both in our mid 40s. 65% LTV

lozrox90 · 13/06/2023 22:55

Both 33, £125k left on mortgage.

OhSmitty · 13/06/2023 22:55

£114k, 42yrs.

Had we not moved last year, we'd have been mortgage free next year.

MeMeMeMeAndMoreMe · 13/06/2023 22:56

50k I'm 43

Fluffyfluffs · 13/06/2023 22:57

£77k and 42

MortgageConundrum · 13/06/2023 22:57

I’m 51 and my outstanding mortgage is £56,658. Get your tiny violins out - I have been paying a mortgage since 1996, when I borrowed £57k. In 27 years I have managed to pay off the grand sum of £341! No, I didn’t miss out any digits, I really do mean my mortgage today is three hundred and forty one pounds less than I borrowed when I bought my first house in 1996.

I know you’re thinking that I must have upsized to a much bigger house and/or a nicer area. No, I have a smaller house than the one I bought in 1996 and on the same estate!

Let me hear those violins…

LondonIsTooHot · 13/06/2023 22:57

Around 175k
Both aged 50
About to sell and buy something bigger but cheaper overseas and be mortgage free

shieldmaiden7 · 13/06/2023 22:57

Zero

34

Primrosefrill · 13/06/2023 22:57

£221k
39
34% LTV

eternalcity2023 · 13/06/2023 22:58

About £950k. 43. Term will finish at 65.

My only real retirement plan is to downsize as I don't get tax benefits from pensions. It's a lot and makes me feel stressed thinking about it.

Minfilia · 13/06/2023 22:59

MortgageConundrum · 13/06/2023 22:57

I’m 51 and my outstanding mortgage is £56,658. Get your tiny violins out - I have been paying a mortgage since 1996, when I borrowed £57k. In 27 years I have managed to pay off the grand sum of £341! No, I didn’t miss out any digits, I really do mean my mortgage today is three hundred and forty one pounds less than I borrowed when I bought my first house in 1996.

I know you’re thinking that I must have upsized to a much bigger house and/or a nicer area. No, I have a smaller house than the one I bought in 1996 and on the same estate!

Let me hear those violins…

Sorry but… how?!?! Interest only?

Disolusionedteacher · 13/06/2023 22:59

212K 47 and 54

TheHateIsNotGood · 13/06/2023 22:59

£19,650 age 60

dreamersdown · 13/06/2023 23:00

615k, 38 at 65% LTV. It’s a lot and I need to pay it down - but need to renovate the place first!

Wobblybobble · 13/06/2023 23:01

765k left on the mortgage. It sounds a lot, but our LTV is only about 40%, so we have a healthy chunk of equity, and the mortgage is fixed at 1.5% for another 20 years, so no danger of payments going up. The payments are under 25% of gross income.

40 and 38.

Shinyandnew1 · 13/06/2023 23:01

£24k
47

ThePuma · 13/06/2023 23:01

£1.425m on residence at 49. On a base rate tracker 😬. Do I win?

CherLloydbyCherLloyd · 13/06/2023 23:01

Willyoujustbequiet · 13/06/2023 22:48

This.

All a bit pointless otherwise. Being mortgage free at a younger age is not that difficult in a cheap property so it's comparing apples and oranges.

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Yeah, we could have been mortgage free by 30 if we wanted. We got our house really cheap and really young and our income increased quite a bit over a period of about 10 years. Instead we had a lot of fun whilst having a small mortgage, both only working part time for a long period, etc., and now we are putting on our sensible hats.

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