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Is it a good offer?

EU134
EU134 Posts: 10 Forumite
edited 27 August 2013 at 4:00PM in Mortgages & endowments
Hello

We 're going to take mortgage on a house. We're fist time buyers and this is what mortgage adviser offered us:
our money: 32k
house price: 160k
rate:3.3%
length: 30 years
monthly rate: 560 in total after all added (except insurance)
Is it a good offer?
I was checking on web and some of them were as low as 500 (initial) at 2.8%

how does it look in fact? is the offer we got a good offer?

Sorry if my question looks silly but I am mortgage noob
Thanks for all answers in advance

Comments

  • fiffio99
    fiffio99 Posts: 18 Forumite
    Can you easily afford the repayments? if so then you'll save alot more in the long term by taking it over 25 years.

    Also check the follow on rate, you dont say if this is a fixed or for how long.
  • amnblog
    amnblog Posts: 12,782 Forumite
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    There is more to this than the rate.

    Your circumstances may mean that one lender is preferable to another, or that some lenders will not consider your case.
    I am a Mortgage Broker

    You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Broker, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.
  • EU134
    EU134 Posts: 10 Forumite
    Hi again and thanks for your answer
    It will be fixed 2yrs repayment
  • EU134
    EU134 Posts: 10 Forumite
    fiffio99 wrote: »
    Can you easily afford the repayments? if so then you'll save alot more in the long term by taking it over 25 years.

    Also check the follow on rate, you dont say if this is a fixed or for how long.


    It's not that I can easly afford it now, but in 2 years my circumstances may/will change. Our rent is higher now and we cope, but I don't think we can do any better than that now, as my wife is still part time due to little one at home. I want to re-build our emergency fund to at least 4k and then save every penny to do early re-payments and also then when we see we're fine we'll shorten it to 25years
  • EU134
    EU134 Posts: 10 Forumite
    for example from this list which one is better? I mean there are 3 cells with % - but I've no idea how it wirks
    money.co.uk/mortgages/85-mortgages.htm
  • EU134
    EU134 Posts: 10 Forumite
    up up up ;-)
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