{"id":169,"date":"2015-12-03T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/uncategorized\/im-buying-a-flat-with-my-boyfriend-how-do-we-split-ownership-fairly\/"},"modified":"2016-01-03T03:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T03:34:23","slug":"im-buying-a-flat-with-my-boyfriend-how-do-we-split-ownership-fairly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/im-buying-a-flat-with-my-boyfriend-how-do-we-split-ownership-fairly\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m buying a flat with my boyfriend \u2013 how do we split ownership fairly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><body><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nI am putting down a big deposit and he is taking out a mortgage, but we can\u2019t agree on how to calculate what percentage of the property we will both ownQ My boyfriend and I are going to buy a flat together. The purchase price of the flat is \u00a3360,000. I\u2019m going to contribute a large deposit of \u00a3200,000 and my boyfriend is going to put in \u00a330,000 in cash for all the buying costs including stamp duty, solicitor fees, furniture and so on, and is going to take out a \u00a3160,000 mortgage on his own.I think I should own 51.3% of the flat \u2013 200 divided by (200+160+30) times 100. However, my boyfriend disagrees and has suggested that we should take the interest he will pay on his mortgage (around \u00a380,000 in total) into account. Which means after he finished paying his mortgage, he will own a bigger percentage than me.  Continue reading&#8230;&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#13;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2015\/dec\/03\/buying-flat-with-boyfriend-split-ownership-fairly\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m buying a flat with my boyfriend \u2013 how do we split ownership fairly?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; I am putting down a big deposit and he is taking out a mortgage, but&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-2J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":123645,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/im-buying-a-house-with-my-boyfriend-how-much-should-we-pay-each\/","url_meta":{"origin":169,"position":0},"title":"I\u2019m buying a house with my boyfriend \u2013 how much should we pay each?","date":"December 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r He\u2019s on a higher salary and suggests that I pay more of the mortgage as he will put more into the depositQ My boyfriend and I would like to buy our first property together. 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