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Transferring a mortgage from parents to child

Hello,

My wife and I are living with my parents. They remortgaged the house to start a business but due to circumstances beyond their control, it failed.

Now they have a mortgage on the home (which I have lived in for nigh-on 26 years) and are approaching retirement age. The house was remortgaged at £119k at a value of £135k at the time (nearly two years ago). We were renting the house from them whilst they moved to the new property where the busniess was.

As I love the house and wanting to help my parents have a decent retirement without a mortgage looming, we would like to buy the house from them. However we do not have a deposit.

Is there anyway that we can take control of the mortgage from my parents and the house become ours?

Our combined gross salary is approx £39kpa.

Cheers
Halfords TC savings to date - £43.51

Comments

  • Difficult without a deposit.
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  • beecher
    beecher Posts: 2,497 Forumite
    You're likely to be in negative equity due to house price falls. Can the other property be sold in order to pay off a chunk of the mortgage?
  • Vayid
    Vayid Posts: 5 Forumite
    good info.. hope the market poicks up soon
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