straw poll - what percentage of your family income do you spend of rent (or mortgage)?

[Kif]

... because I'm slightly alarmed we might need to spend more than half our income to get something genuinely big enough ...

Not far off half

Gross or net?

We spend 15% of our gross (and that is our payments over 30 years!) I don't want to think about how much it is net, probably 40% at a guess.

lone parent, only borrowing about 20% of the value of the property so only spending about 15% of my income on the mortgage. probably not a very good yardstick for you

net

10% of net salary - but we bought smart before the housing market took off.

40% of our combined wages every month.Interest only at the moment as well.

I wanted to spend much less - but I've had lots of from agents re: too few bedrooms for number of people .

How big is your family? We've got the cheapest 3 bed terrace in our area and there are 6 of us. I included child benefit, CTC, child maintenance in my income btw - if it were just on incomes it would be about 55% of net income each month (eek perhaps more)

18.5% of net income spent on renting a council property.

It would be 50% if we rented from a private landlord and 75% if we were paying a mortgage.

35% of take-home, interest only.

About 15 percent of our combined net income on a repayment but we both had the proceeds from two properties (one mine, one his) which we used as deposit and we bought before the market soared.

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About a third of DH's take home pay goes to the mortgage (used to be less but we've refinanced a couple of times now).