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Car finance and mortgage help

Jackallo61
Jackallo61 Posts: 5 Forumite
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Hello,

My partner and I are looking to buy our first home and have found the house that we want to buy. 

We will have around a £250,000 mortgage and were told we could borrow £350,000 in our mortgage in principle. 

The issue has arisen that the new build will be finished and ready to move in, in March, the same month my partners PCP car loan ends. 

My question is if she starts a new PCP car loan in the mean time will this affect our mortgage application. 

Her monthly payments will be the same on the car she has been looking at compared to now and we will be very comfortably be inside the affordability. 

One of the mortgage advisers have recommended if we can help it she shouldn’t do it, where as, another has told us as long as we are comfortably in the affordability it shouldn’t be an issue. 

The car is a necessity for work and we can’t buy a 2-3k banger because that money will be used for work. 

Does anyone have any experience or suggestions on as to whether this will affect our mortgage application?

many thanks, Jack




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  • david29dpo
    david29dpo Posts: 3,971 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited Today at 3:37AM
    Only your lender can answer that question, all lenders are different.

    Affordable now? What if interests rates go up, a lot?
    What happens if everthings else goes up?
    Will it be affordable then?
    Just saying.
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