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Mortgage and credit card debt

We have just agreed the price for the sale of our house and have paid £1000 deposit and a new build. I was the main earner until I dropped down to part time work and so pay the majority of the family bills and my husband works full time plus a weekend job. My concern is that we will not get credit as I have about £8000 on credit cards plus a car loan of £4000. My credit rating is average but my husband had nothing on credit and his rating is excellent. Will the debt affect us getting a mortgage? We will have 10% deposit and enough to pay fees etc from the sale. Any help please as I'm really starting to worry and the mortgage people are a bit slow for my liking.

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  • Lokolo
    Lokolo Posts: 20,861 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    The repayments will come off your affrodability.
  • Notmyrealname
    Notmyrealname Posts: 4,003 Forumite
    As above. The mortgage company will look at your total income, the total amount of debt and work out whether you can afford the mortgage. And by afford, they don't mean at current interest rates but if it goes up 3 or 4%.
  • Thanks for the replies so maybe my new is more than a dream lol thanks again :-))
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