I am buying a flat in SE London with a 103% mortgage but everyone seems to worry about a property crash?
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at
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I have been reliably informed that there is going to be another interest rate rise in September and another in December. So two more this year!!!
The increases will slow.
I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad time to buy, but I think you have a bad mortgage. I take it you’re borrowing 103% of the value of your property? So if things got tough and you had to sell your property for what you bought it for, not only would you have to give 100% of the proceeds to the lender, but also 3% more of your own money.
i brought my house seven years ago and got told the same thing then…. my house has gone up £100k so im glad i didnt listen to them.
Houses will go back up even if they fall…. as long as you can afford your mortgage payments then you have no problem.
You wont loose money on property, espcially in London. Even if there was a crash, as long as you dont plan to move out within the next few years you will be fine.
I bought my flat 3 years ago and people were talking about house prices and crashes then…it will happen but I would go for it
yes, do you really want to owe 100/150,000 in 4 years for a 40,000 flat ?
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you pay your money and you take your chance just like all home buyers.
Borrowing more than your asset is never a good idea. Its a betters market, the more it goes up, the better but then the further it has to fall. Something will happen at some stage as there is not enough people to afford housing at current prices at some stage supply will outstrip demand and prices will start to fall the interest rates will rise again, provided you can afford the repayments for however many years it takes to recover, then fine, make sure you get a fixed rate for as many years as possible, even if that means alot more now, you will be better as you will be sure of your payments for the next 10 years!
You are too young to remember the horrors of negative equity and high interest rates.
I remember the early 90s. First house prices go down while interest rates go up. My mortgage doubled. I could afford to pay. Many couldn’t. These people they tried to sell their houses. The sale no longer covered what they borrowed. They lose their house because the bank repossessed it. The bank sells the house for even less than the market value. The hapless borrower now has no house and owes the bank many thousands. Are you prepared for that?