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Mortgage advice Required please

Hi I would be very grateful for some mortgage advice.

We live in a house just valued at around 280k, and would like to move to a house that would cost circa 350k. We have a flat with no mortgage outstanding worth at least 130k, which we would like to hold on to, which is rented out with a profit of £430 a month.

Ideally we would like to also keep hold of our current house to rent out, which could bring us 1k a month. The house has 100k outstanding on it, so has 180k equity in it.
In terms of income we have combined income of about 80k, I am self employed and although I have audited accounts, that could be potentially troublesome.



So my question is, how can we achieve our desire to keep hold of both existing properties and get a new mortgage?

We have 35k to put down, and have calculated that taking 50k out in equity out of our existing house, so we would need a mortgage of 275k. Obviously our income does not cover that, soan we use the flat as a guarantor on a mortgage on our new house without having to remortgage it? Or is there something else I am missing?
Thanks in advance.
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