We are looking at trading up our home this year and I just wanted to outline our plan/schedule to see if anyone can see any issues or ways to do things more efficiently as it seems fairly challenging to manage to do this seamlessly!
In addition we do not have a 10% cash deposit available as we overpaid the mortgage significantly instead of savings. We have significant equity however in our house and will be looking at a mortgage c. 75% LTV. Therefore I believe we will need to sell and release equity prior to purchase.
Our schedule is:
Has anyone traded up like this recently and able to steer us in the right direction?
In addition we do not have a 10% cash deposit available as we overpaid the mortgage significantly instead of savings. We have significant equity however in our house and will be looking at a mortgage c. 75% LTV. Therefore I believe we will need to sell and release equity prior to purchase.
Our schedule is:
- Get BER and engage Estate Agent and solicitor to sell house.
- In tandem, get mortgage AIP using broker
- We are thinking it makes sense only to list our house for sale after we get AIP in the event there is some issues getting AIP.
- List house for sale
- When our house is on market actively search and bid on houses. I hope we would be taken seriously by estate agents once our house is on the market.
- IF our house is sold we could move in with relatives but would like to keep this as brief as possible.
- Hopefully buy new house and move in all within a year from now.
Has anyone traded up like this recently and able to steer us in the right direction?