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i'm a mortgage adviser and i can say the majority of FTBs in the south east nowadays are paying way over £1,000 per month. Its not cos they have great wages, its cos they have no choice if they want to get on the property ladder here - its total madness.

 

Also over 1 in 4 are opting for interest only too just to afford it. - theres going to be major problems in the future for these people if things carry on this way.

 

don't get me wrong and this is a very selfish thing to say, but i'm loving these house prices rising ...now that i've been on the ladder for a good few years. However that last BBR increase has calmed things down for now at least.

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£500 per month for first house. In Peterborough which ain't great but I couldn't afford to move back to Essex, or if I could I wouldn't have got anything with a garage. And now I have three of them! House prices are ridiculous though, I had some cash from a flat I sold a few years back for a decent deposit, but feel sorry for anyone younger than me without a foot on the ladder - they'll be renting for life or have to find girlfriends/wives to split mortgages.

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I pay just over £600, but I remortgaged my house a few years back.

 

I was very lucky when I bought my house the prices had just started to go up it was 5 years ago. Me and Vicky had to move out of her parents house's as we had our daughter Megan.

 

It was lucky timing really with regards to the house front. As I paid £59,000 for the house when it was 2/3 years old (cost £42,000 originally). The last time I had the house valued it was worth around £135,000 and they said the shithole next door was losing us about £5k.

 

So the house value has gone up £80k in 5 years. :blink:

I would hate having to be looking to get on the market now. The bloke who valued our house last time told us people are now taking 50 year mortgages and having there parents as guarantor's.

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I pay just over £600, but I remortgaged my house a few years back.

 

I was very lucky when I bought my house the prices had just started to go up it was 5 years ago. Me and Vicky had to move out of her parents house's as we had our daughter Megan.

 

It was lucky timing really with regards to the house front. As I paid £59,000 for the house when it was 2/3 years old (cost £42,000 originally). The last time I had the house valued it was worth around £135,000 and they said the shithole next door was losing us about £5k.

 

So the house value has gone up £80k in 5 years. :blink:

I would hate having to be looking to get on the market now. The bloke who valued our house last time told us people are now taking 50 year mortgages and having there parents as guarantor's.

 

 

You've done very well indeed. I bought my other house 17 years ago for £51K and am selling it now - and accepted an offer of £134K. So your property has increased by roughly the same amount in 5 years as mine did in 17. Probably partly because there was a big dip in the 90s - at one point, my house was only worth £38K.

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very interesting thread, as I am just about to hit the market, sell the current flat the missus owns and buy a house together.

 

Currently i think the flat mortgage is about £400/month - but after all bills, petrol etc have been paid, i'm still managing to save nearly £400 a month - so I THINK we can safely double our mortgage costs and still survive. On the plus side we'd be moving closer to my work, so i wouldn't be paying £400/month in petrol, so could probably use that money for the extra bits for the house.

 

From so much advise and comments from others, it seems like we're going to need to move soon, as they recon a largeish increase is still due to hit house prices in the South soon.

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