Age: 39
Spouse’s/Partner's age: 39
Annual gross income from employment or profession: 235k base + 90k bonus (60% Stock options, 40% Cash)
Annual gross income of spouse: 0
Monthly take-home pay 10,500
Type of employment: PAYE
In general are you:
(a) saving - usually put 4k a month to savings. Bonus pretty much drops to savings too.
Rough estimate of value of home - we rent - costs 2.5k per month
Other borrowings – car loans/personal loans etc - none
Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yep
Savings and investments: 240k cash, 60k stock options
Do you have a pension scheme? yep - 24% of salary per month (50/50 me and employer)
Do you own any investment or other property? just stock options
Ages of children: 9,6,2
Life insurance: yep - 1M cover
What specific question do you have or what issues are of concern to you?
Recent significant increase in income sees us saving about 100k per annum - we've started to think about buying a house for ourselves but not sure. I'm really conservative financially so we haven't let our lifestyle chase our income too much. I'm inclined to wait until we have cash to purchase property outright (I guess in 2 to 3 years) and buy then. My wife tells me I'm stupid....I'm guessing you will too but is there any reasonable counter argument?
Spouse’s/Partner's age: 39
Annual gross income from employment or profession: 235k base + 90k bonus (60% Stock options, 40% Cash)
Annual gross income of spouse: 0
Monthly take-home pay 10,500
Type of employment: PAYE
In general are you:
(a) saving - usually put 4k a month to savings. Bonus pretty much drops to savings too.
Rough estimate of value of home - we rent - costs 2.5k per month
Other borrowings – car loans/personal loans etc - none
Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yep
Savings and investments: 240k cash, 60k stock options
Do you have a pension scheme? yep - 24% of salary per month (50/50 me and employer)
Do you own any investment or other property? just stock options
Ages of children: 9,6,2
Life insurance: yep - 1M cover
What specific question do you have or what issues are of concern to you?
Recent significant increase in income sees us saving about 100k per annum - we've started to think about buying a house for ourselves but not sure. I'm really conservative financially so we haven't let our lifestyle chase our income too much. I'm inclined to wait until we have cash to purchase property outright (I guess in 2 to 3 years) and buy then. My wife tells me I'm stupid....I'm guessing you will too but is there any reasonable counter argument?