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Best way to fund house extension

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WhatTheFund · Yesterday 22:19

I wasn’t sure whether this board or properly/diy would be better suited but here we go.

Our remortgage is due in 2028. We would however like to carry out a double extension to enlarge our kitchen and teen DC’s room, which is a box room.

We bought our house for lower than market rate as we rented it initially and the LL did us a good deal. We have no equity to release on it really ( less than £20K).
The mortgage is only in my name and I don’t remember the reason for that tbh.

What would be our best route for securing funds at say £100K?

DH’s only debt now is paying gir his car at £300 for next 6months. Mine is about than £300 on a store card that’s buy now pay later that I try to use i build my credit .

Is our only option to raise funds for this to remortgage the house? How do we do this if we have no equity?

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InfoSecInTheCity · Yesterday 23:01

Are you sure about the equity value? You say you bought it below market value so you should have had some equity on day 1 and unless you got a 100% mortgage you would have put a deposit towards it.

WhatTheFund · Yesterday 23:03

InfoSecInTheCity · Yesterday 23:01

Are you sure about the equity value? You say you bought it below market value so you should have had some equity on day 1 and unless you got a 100% mortgage you would have put a deposit towards it.

That’s a very good point. I’m just basing it on the mortgage amount, not taking into account our deposit or the fact that it was below market value. Thank you.

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Ilovemyshed · Yesterday 23:06

Equity is current value of the house minus mortgage. So if the house is worth £400k and you have a £300k mortgage you have £100k equity. However you would be unlikely to be able to borrow that much more due to LTV. Would it be better to move and port the mortgage?

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