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Monthly Mortgage Payments too much?

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  • £770*2 £1540
    25years 1.74% that's £372k mortgage. 

    Unless you have a lot of deductions and your gross is more like £40k rather than £30k each how did you get 6.2 times income? 





    Ahh apologies! That was our old salary 🤦🏻‍♀️ We had a pay rise at Christmas to around £39 each. Still used to the old salary/got the old salary stuck in the brain 
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've helped Parliament
    More like £2,500pm each then.

    Already gone from 50% to 40% and you have done nothing.
    if not to old working on £1k  £770+£230
    25 £1540, 770, £1k,  40%
    30 £1330, £665, £895, 36%
    35 £1190, £595, £825, 33%
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