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How big was your deposit?

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  • Baileys_Babe
    Baileys_Babe Posts: 6,372 Forumite
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    Welcome sss555s.

    First house May 2000 13% deposit
    Second house August 2006 100% deposit
    Third house March 2007 75% deposit

    Working on renovating third house and knocking through to second house. Probably need to take out a mortgage to complete the project and then put all efforts in to being mortgage free asap.
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  • sarmia
    sarmia Posts: 576 Forumite
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    Our first in 2003 was £8,900 (10%))

    Second house in 2006 was £47,500 (28% purely down to house rise price in first house)
  • Jorgan_2
    Jorgan_2 Posts: 2,270 Forumite
    First house in 1993 £15k deposit (approx 22%)
    Second house in 1995 £15k deposit (approx 20%) basically the deposit from the first hosue.

    Third house in 2002 £70k deposit (approx 52%)
  • Kaz2904
    Kaz2904 Posts: 5,797 Forumite
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    Welcome sss555s.

    First house May 2000 13% deposit
    Second house August 2006 100% deposit
    Third house March 2007 75% deposit

    Working on renovating third house and knocking through to second house. Probably need to take out a mortgage to complete the project and then put all efforts in to being mortgage free asap.

    Sounds interesting- did you buy 2 semis and are knocking into one or are your neighbours having an extension they don't know about yet? :rotfl:
    Debt: 16/04/2007:TOTAL DEBT [strike]£92727.75[/strike] £49395.47:eek: :eek: :eek: £43332.28 repaid 100.77% of £43000 target.
    MFiT T2: Debt [STRIKE]£52856.59[/STRIKE] £6316.14 £46540.45 repaid 101.17% of £46000 target.
    2013 Target: completely clear my [STRIKE]£6316.14[/STRIKE] £0 mortgage debt. £6316.14 100% repaid.
  • Baileys_Babe
    Baileys_Babe Posts: 6,372 Forumite
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    Kaz2904 wrote: »
    Sounds interesting- did you buy 2 semis and are knocking into one or are your neighbours having an extension they don't know about yet? :rotfl:


    Terrace of farm cottages hoping to knock the 2 we own into 1 larger property. Have already amalgmated the gardens, now the width suits the length.
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  • minnie999_2
    minnie999_2 Posts: 40 Forumite
    hubby and i put down 32k, and my inlaws gave us 50k, as a gift and never wanted it back. With there help we where able to pay our 250k mortgage in 3 years, im 30 hubby is 34.
    Debt Free date March 09:D hopefully sooner!
    £ 1640- virgin card
    £ 441.76- bank loan

    total was £3891.20
    now £ 2081.76
  • StuartGMC
    StuartGMC Posts: 2,175 Forumite
    As FTB we put down £22k or 29% in 1994 despite several years of pay freezes, then company closure (no redundancy in 1992) and high inflation which was hitting us at that time, with poor jobs market etc. We did overpay but annual interest calcs on the initial mortgage didn't help! Daily interest on later scheme was much better of course and the offset since 2006 has really made a big difference.

    Any of the above sound a bit like deja vu?
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