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percentage of salary that goes towards your mortgage

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  • alanobrien
    alanobrien Posts: 3,309 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    Mine is about 60% although approx 20% of that is a regular overpayment. Many many years back i recall it being >90% :eek: and i had 2 jobs to cope with it, a horrid thing but necessary for me to get on the ladder at the time.
  • Mine is 49% of my take home pay, but i'm single and have no dependents therefore i am coping ok.
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  • HugoSP
    HugoSP Posts: 2,467 Forumite
    Mortgage was around 35% of my take home pay, then I got made redundant. My wife organised a job and a rental property (unmortgaged) that was undergoing renovation got finished and let, bringing the income up to a similar level as it was before.

    Then we came into some money and paid the mortgage off at the end of the low fixed rate deal we had.
    Behind every great man is a good woman
    Beside this ordinary man is a great woman
    £2 savings jar - now at £3.42:rotfl:
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