In all mortgage calculations balls!? I was checking some mortgage calculators Yahoo even under the finance section and, for some reason if you are a single person with a salary of £ 66,000.00 £ 268,000.00 you can borrow but if you're a couple earning £ 46,000.00 and £ 20,000.00 you can borrow £ 198,000.00! But with two peaple win you spread the risk of job loss and you would be around £ 4000.00 Beter after PAYE (income tax) with an allocation 46K 20K salary. To trust these fools with our money IF THEY CANNOT Helping your business sense??
In fact, you're multiplying the risk of loss of income when a couple. The lender still has a loan to worry, but there are twice as likely that a job could be lost or downsized. In addition, there is more likely that a person who loses (or closes) a job within a couple chooses not to seek work again (because of childbirth, personal choices , etc.). A single person who loses / terminates employment will almost certainly seek another immediately.
In general, if the calculation on two incomes, they do not use the same multiplier for the second income. Perhaps they assume that the second income is for the woman and she can stop working for children. Very archaic, but I guess that's the rational that went into this decision.
As above, but when you think that if one party have lost their jobs or, more importantly, they separated, the company is left having to send counselors debt possibly two places, then when Question need for justice when they have to pay twice for the same mortgage. This will be a way for them to reduce their risk of the mortgage not being paid.
caluclators mortgages are a load of sense. He used 3 times your salary for a single person, 3 times the principal earner, plus the salary of others. Because of how the housing market has lost control, this is simply not realistic and people can take a whole lot more than that. The best thing to do is go to a mortgage broker and discuss it with them.
Posted on August 27, 2010.