Have read several of the threads relating to mortgage protection and am a little unclear as to when I should be getting it sorted out.
My partner and I put down a booking deposit on a house in a new development last Friday. We have four weeks to sign contracts and pay the balance of the contract deposit. The house itself won't be completed til September / October, so we won't be drawing down the mortgage cheque until then.
I got a few online quotations for mortgage protection but haven't done anything else about it. Is this something we need to sort out now, before paying the contract deposit? Or is it something we sort out over the summer, before completion?
I have read about some people having difficulties with delays over GPs signing forms, so if we need to get this done in the next month, I'd like to get the ball rolling now. I don't anticipate any problems as such (we're both approaching 27, both non-smokers and with no history of any life-threatening illnesses TG ) but I don't want it to be something that causes problems.
Thanks for any help and apologies if I missed the answer among the threads I read!
My partner and I put down a booking deposit on a house in a new development last Friday. We have four weeks to sign contracts and pay the balance of the contract deposit. The house itself won't be completed til September / October, so we won't be drawing down the mortgage cheque until then.
I got a few online quotations for mortgage protection but haven't done anything else about it. Is this something we need to sort out now, before paying the contract deposit? Or is it something we sort out over the summer, before completion?
I have read about some people having difficulties with delays over GPs signing forms, so if we need to get this done in the next month, I'd like to get the ball rolling now. I don't anticipate any problems as such (we're both approaching 27, both non-smokers and with no history of any life-threatening illnesses TG ) but I don't want it to be something that causes problems.
Thanks for any help and apologies if I missed the answer among the threads I read!