Mortgage Rate Rises

Hard life having so much money that you could pay off your mortgage tomorrow and are worrying about where best to utilise your vast wealth. My heart goes out to you :cry:



Pay off the mortgage and not really have much of a backup, if i have to survive 6-12 months with no job, or if i needed a replacement car, or wanted to put money towards a new property
 
Pay off the mortgage and not really have much of a backup, if i have to survive 6-12 months with no job, or if i needed a replacement car, or wanted to put money towards a new property

Living on the breadline is a ballache, I can sympathise :cry:
 
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Pay off the mortgage and not really have much of a backup, if i have to survive 6-12 months with no job, or if i needed a replacement car, or wanted to put money towards a new property

99% of people who aren't retired already or have their homes paid off are in exactly that same situation but with a honking great mortgage over their heads or rent to pay every month. You are in a very very comfortable position fundamentally.
 
not quite sure how i'm moaning.
just pointing out the obvious :)



How are you getting deja vu ? iv not really commented on mortgage rates rising recently due to , what probably is down to the bad economy, rising inflation again


I get deja vu when people comment "have i scanned it yet", i deal with it


The question was a legit one.
 
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We'll have to start saying the new boomer has arrived

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definitely prefer the new boomer :)
 
Well I locked in a potential switch to barclays at 4.4% no fee 2 year fix, hopefully the Iran thing is short lived and I can get a better rate before August
 

I love it when people try to say that the young of today don't have it way harder. By every metric buying a house is getting harder as time goes by.

- Average age of first time buyer
- Percentage of people getting help from mum/dad/family/inheritance
- Percentage of people buying as a couple.
- Average mortgage term

Literally the only mitigation is that more people are opting to buy houses over flats as a FTB which is again, an indictment that people don't think there is a housing "ladder" any more and that its so expensive to buy a property that they are better off waiting a bit longer and skipping a step.
 
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