Mortgage/rent costs

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I'm just curious what people pay as a percentage of their income to their mortgage or their rent every month? I know much as depends on how cheap your home is as how high your income is, but I just wondered if, especially on the DFW forum, whether there are any patterns.

I'm at around 10% of income, but that's down to having a very low mortgage rather than a high income (for instance I pay a further almost 10% of my income to a student loan every month so it all evens out I guess overall).

Just comes from curiousity as a friend has a mortgage of about 35/40% of income (we are on the same income). I certainly couldn't stretch to that with my numbers, but I'm curious what others have. Perhaps I am being unduly nervous. Hopefully with a % it might make people more confident to post if they don't like mentioning £s. But you're welcome to do that too if you prefer (it's DFW after all some of you are very open!).

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  • MovingForwards
    MovingForwards Posts: 16,921 Forumite
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    Approx 33% for my half of the rent.
    Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear it in 2026.
  • pdel61
    pdel61 Posts: 940 Forumite
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    My mortgage is a little under 1% of income
  • Novice_investor101
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    I pay 28% of my take home pay, which includes a regular monthly overpayment.
    It'd be 23% of take home pay without the overpayment.
    If we're talking salary before tax/sal sac etc have been deducted & no mortgage overpayment then it'd be about 15%.
  • dan958
    dan958 Posts: 770 Forumite
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    my Mortgage is 25% of my take-home (single), which includes a small over-payment each month.
  • Bored
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    My mortgage is 33% of my take-home pay, without any overpayments. It's fine but I'd like it to be below 25% ideally.
    2023 Mortgage-Free Wannabe #19: £11,675.68/£13,000
    Mortgage Overpayment Total: £22,397.1
  • enthusiasticsaver
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    Nothing now but when we had a mortgage we always made sure housing costs were no more than 30% of total income.
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  • Splatfoot
    Splatfoot Posts: 593 Forumite
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    About 35%.
  • chelseablue
    chelseablue Posts: 3,303 Forumite
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    My half of the mortgage is 19% of my take home pay
  • Yellow_mango
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    Our mortgage is around 30% of take-home pay.
  • determined_new_ms
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    ours is 16% of our income. Rises to 21% averaging out overpayments
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