Buying a house with girlfriend ?

i was in the exact same situation.
i spoke to the solicitor about it and we went down on the house deeds as tennants in common with a 60% 40% split to me.
how it worked, say house was 100k, deposit was 20k. then you own 1/5th outright with 4/5th's split 50/50.

How does stuff like that play out in the result of a marriage that produced children but then ended? e.g. man owns 66% of the house who ends the marriage and wants his money out.
 
I don't know not my money to ask that question.

How can you not know? Surely you discuss things with each other and don't hide things - it's both of your business how you spend your money if you intend to bind yourselves together financially with a property :confused:
 
i was in the exact same situation.
i spoke to the solicitor about it and we went down on the house deeds as tennants in common with a 60% 40% split to me.
how it worked, say house was 100k, deposit was 20k. then you own 1/5th outright with 4/5th's split 50/50.

something like that anyway! basically it will ensure the initial % you put down is reflected in ownership.

This is what we've done with our mortgage, I put in the bulk of the deposit as I had a lot of equity in my current house. We pay the mortgage equally but we are down as tennants in common in my favour.
 
Why dont you just ask her. She knows the answer better than us.

If you need to ask us....then maybe re-evaluating the relationship itself would be of more use than to buy a house .
 
see a solicitor - hope for the best and plan for the worst.
Even the most perfect relationships can fail and love doesn't really last forever - happy new year :)
 
You can write an agreement to protect the deposit and still buy as joint tenants - when you sell you will get the deposit back before splitting the rest of the value of the house. I got my partner to sign it as I contributed more to the deposit and she was cool with it.

Regarding ongoing contributions, I split it based on income percentage into a joint account as otherwise if one earns less then they will be stuck in the house all the time!
 
You have a 1 year relationship and you're both already looking to buy a house together? I would be questioning why your partner is in such a rush for this to happen, yet has no deposit.

Partner pays 50/50 for deposit and mortgage, or nothing.
 
You have a 1 year relationship and you're both already looking to buy a house together? I would be questioning why your partner is in such a rush for this to happen, yet has no deposit.

Partner pays 50/50 for deposit and mortgage, or nothing.

This, infact OP im amazed you even have to ask, you trolling ? or is this real? please tell me you have come to your senses?
 
One year?
She can't save any money?
You're considering blowing your deposit on the house without her spending any?

Um... Fingers crossed and geronimo!








Nope. Negative.
 
All my deposit.
Mortgage all in my name.
All the mortgage monthly payments come out of my account.
She pays the other bills.
 
Man, things are so complex nowadays. My wife and don't have any notion of a split or share of contribution to anything. Everything we have is pooled as it is jointly ours, doesn't matter who brought it in.
 
My (now) wife and I got a deed of trust drawn up by the solicitors handling the house purchase. I think it cost around £300.

Our trust deed simply said percentage of money in (deposit + mortgage payments to date) equals percentage of money out when the property is sold.

Obviously now that we're married, it's no longer valid.
 
even that isn't really 'fair' if you split up part way through....

Say you split up in 1 year's time after having made sufficient repayments to pay off 2k of capital (so 1k each)

suppose property prices have not changed, you sell for 100k, pay off the mortgage and get 22k back - surely 21k of that is yours.... not 60% of it

If you own 1/5th outright, you get 20% back, the remainder split 50/50 no?

So in your example you would get 20k back, the other 2k would be split 50/50.

If I was buying with someone with no deposit, that is what I would do I think.
 
Buy the house yourself and take her as a lodger. Easiest way financially. I did this for years with my o/h until we bought together.

Lodger money is tax free income upto a quite generous limit which would cover the mortgage so it's fairly simple to do. As far as bills, each person takes different ones hopefully so its equal though council tax and water are by far the biggest usually
 
Man, things are so complex nowadays. My wife and don't have any notion of a split or share of contribution to anything. Everything we have is pooled as it is jointly ours, doesn't matter who brought it in.

^^^^This works. ;)

Its just money?:confused:
If you love her then whats the odds?
Money is easy to find and make, true love aint. ;)

Money is not everything, I can assure you. :rolleyes:
 
If you own 1/5th outright, you get 20% back, the remainder split 50/50 no?

So in your example you would get 20k back, the other 2k would be split 50/50.

If I was buying with someone with no deposit, that is what I would do I think.

It is possible to arrange it that way, but as it was described the portion that was owned outright was not protected. dowie is correct.

To do so effectively you need to agree differing proportions of ownership of the property and responsibility for the debt. For example, a person may own 40% of the property but agree to be responsible for a different amount of the mortgage repayment (not that the mortgage company will give two hoots about that if it defaults).
 
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