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Help to Buy equity loan and the 'up to 20%'
spriggsy
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I've looked everywhere and can't seem to find the answer, but what I do keep reading is that with a Help to Buy equity loan the government will lend you 'up to 20%'.
Does that mean we could borrow 5%, 10%, 15% if we wanted to or are we borrowed what we are given?
Ideally we would want to borrow as little as possible from the HTB part to be able to a) pay it off sooner and b) reduce the amount of deposit we have to put down initially, so something like 5% from the equity loan and 5% of our deposit to make up a 90% LTV purchase.
Anyone know if that's possible?
Does that mean we could borrow 5%, 10%, 15% if we wanted to or are we borrowed what we are given?
Ideally we would want to borrow as little as possible from the HTB part to be able to a) pay it off sooner and b) reduce the amount of deposit we have to put down initially, so something like 5% from the equity loan and 5% of our deposit to make up a 90% LTV purchase.
Anyone know if that's possible?
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Question I have is why would you want to?
I get you only want to borrow 5% on the equity loan but
a) You get cheaper mortgages rates at a lower LTV, so a 90% LTV rate will be a lot higher than a 75% rate
b) Its interest free for 5 years. So rather than pay mortgage interest on 15% of it (as you say you only want 5%), you can get it interest free. Pay it back after 5 years.0 -
With bond market/stock market wobbles and PTB intending to hike interest rates, plus people no longer being allowed to put estate agent and tax bills on the credit cards any more:rotfl: I would be careful how much you borrow in this environment.....actually surprised that HTB is still running TBH..
http://www.propertyindustryeye.com/dramatic-slump-in-buy-to-let-lending-blamed-on-government-intervention/0 -
It's 10% min to 20% max in 1% increments.
Be careful. There are very few products in the market with an LTV above 75%.
Realistically, you should only go got an HTB loan of less than 20% of you have enough deposit to get an LTV of 75% or lower.I am a mortgage broker. You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, 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. Please do not send PMs asking for one-to-one-advice, or representation.0 -
kingstreet wrote: »It's 10% min to 20% max in 1% increments.
Be careful. There are very few products in the market with an LTV above 75%.
Realistically, you should only go got an HTB loan of less than 20% of you have enough deposit to get an LTV of 75% or lower.
Explains why there are so many threads on here about struggling to sell I suppose?0 -
As others have said, surely it would make sense to take the HTB... You'll grab yourself a decent mortgage with a much better loan to value.0
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