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How to Finance - Please help

Want to buy a house for £385k plus 12k extra for StampDuty. Need to spend about 60k on extension. Scarey stuff !
Have 100k cash, and house worth about 350k (no mortgage).
My own house may take a while to sell, and/or I may want to keep it until sale of second home is complete along with building work (alternatively rent). Want to be mortgage free again within a year.

Thought an offset against current home to might be good - but which one is best ?

Posts here tend to prefer variable mortgages - again which one ?

Any other advice much appreciated.
Thanks

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  • herbiesjp
    herbiesjp Posts: 8,499 Forumite
    If you have a lot of money/income that you can use to offset it may indeed be an option.

    HOwever if you do not have these funds, then I would suggest any other type of discount/tracker rate with no penalties would also be just as good for you.

    I think you may need to run your scenario past a whole of market adviser for some professional advice, so that they can get a full grasp on what you are looking to achieve
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