A lot happens throughout the process of buying your first home, which can feel exciting, but also stressful and overwhelming.
Based on our experience, we want to share our top tips to help reduce the pressure often felt when becoming a home owner for the first time…
Choose your advice carefully
Family and friends may not be properly informed to advise you correctly, and following too many experts online can be contradictory and misleading. Choose an adviser who is qualified, and trusted (i.e. check their Google reviews).
Stop the hypothetical decorating
Moving house is one thing. Buying furniture and planning renovations and paint colours is another. Take each step of the home buying process one aspect as a time. Taking on too much all at once can add to the overwhelm!
Get organised with paperwork
Your mortgage adviser will talk you through the paperwork you need. If this isn’t prepared for the lender when requested, can cause problems and delays - not just for you, but for everyone in the chain (if there is one). The sooner you can get organised the better.
Budget
Pulling back on your spending to add to your deposit, saving for your emergency fund and planning your budget to ensure you can afford your new home is a lot to consider. We don’t want you to leave yourself too strapped each month.
You can’t do it all
Get help where you can. Not just for the mortgage and protection advice, but also the physical aspects. Ask friends to help you pack boxes, consider using a removal company, and ask loved ones to take care of your children on moving day. Take some of the weight off from yourself.
It’s a daunting yet exciting time, after all, buying a property is likely going to be the biggest investment you’ll ever make.
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Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.
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Willow Tree Financial Services is a Financial Adviser firm based in Polegate, East Sussex, UK. We specialise in Financial Planning, Mortgages, Investments & Pension Planning, Protection & Insurance Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning.
The Financial Conduct Authority do not regulate wills, trusts, estate planning and lasting power of attorney. Will Writing & Lasting Powers of Attorney are not part of the Quilter Financial Planning offering and are offered in our own right. Quilter Financial Planning accept no responsibility for these aspects of our business..
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