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Is Our Mortgage Sustainable? Advice Needed

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Gabaru · 09/02/2025 14:53

We are first-time buyers, and our mortgage for £575,000 has been approved. We are putting down a £11,000 deposit. My take-home income is £4,200 per month, and the mortgage repayment will be £2,430 per month.
Given the current cost of living, I wanted to ask if this setup seems sustainable.Any advice or insights from those in a similar situation would be greatly appreciated.

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Fluffywabbits · 09/02/2025 14:55

Assume there's a typo in your deposit amount?

iamnotalemon · 09/02/2025 14:55

What about your partners income? Not sure if you have children or will have them but certainly consider childcare costs.

I would put together a budget of your potential mortgage and all your bills and see how much you have left.

It's entirely what you feel comfortable with really

iamnotalemon · 09/02/2025 14:56

Fluffywabbits · 09/02/2025 14:55

Assume there's a typo in your deposit amount?

Yeah I did think the deposit seemed low

rainingsnoring · 09/02/2025 14:56

That's a huge mortgage, a tiny deposit and a tiny income relative to the mortgage.
Surely you have forgotten to mention your partner's income in the OP. I think there must be a second income here otherwise you would not have had such a large mortgage approved.

NorthernSpirit · 09/02/2025 15:01

Those figures don’t stack up.

If you ‘take home’ £4,200 pm / that’s a gross annual salary of £70k per annum.

You wouldn’t be able to lend £575k on that salary (I’d expect lending of £300k tops).

Your deposit of £11k is also too low on lending of £575k.

ConfessionsOfAMumDramaQueen · 09/02/2025 15:01

Gabaru · 09/02/2025 14:53

We are first-time buyers, and our mortgage for £575,000 has been approved. We are putting down a £11,000 deposit. My take-home income is £4,200 per month, and the mortgage repayment will be £2,430 per month.
Given the current cost of living, I wanted to ask if this setup seems sustainable.Any advice or insights from those in a similar situation would be greatly appreciated.

Myself and DH bought a house, £185K mortgage, £750 repayments, £3.5K income. All good.

Renewal came around and rate had gone from 1.5% to sky high. We paid down as much as we could from savings to bring LTV to 60% for best rate (still 4.5%) and suddenly our repayments were £1050 a month, plus I was pregnant so we were living on SMP+£2200 take home from DH while I was on maternity leave. Then I went back to work and we were taking home £5K, with a £1050 mortgage and £1.5K nursery fees a month.

So I guess it depends. Do you plan on kids? Will income go up? Can you afford a 3% interest increase?

Tupster · 09/02/2025 18:13

Well, clearly on that set of figures, no, that's not even close to being sustainable. I can only assume there's a load of missing information because as above have said, no-one would get a £575k mortgage with a deposit and income of that size.

Doris86 · 09/02/2025 18:26

Not sustainable at all. No mortgage company would approve that level of lending based on your income. I can only assume there is some missing or incorrect information in the original post.

Crouton19 · 09/02/2025 18:36

How big is the house? Could you get somewhere smaller, so you don't need to borrow as much?

Londongent · 09/02/2025 18:57

Nope afraid not.

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