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Advice please

sparkban · 2014-07-27 07:31:06

Hi Newbie here I hope I'm posting in the correct forum and apologies if I am not. My partner and I have been renting now for around 4 years and in honesty I'm fed up of lining someone else's pockets ! It's costing me 1k a month just on rent. We do have some savings and want to look at buying a place ASAP. Many people say…

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ACG Posts: 24,555 Forumite

28 July 2014 at 10:31AM

I think this could possibly be done with as little as a 5% deposit.

On a combined income of £85k though I would assume you can save up a decent deposit is a short space of time?

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