so you don’t want others to have it. currently, though, we are at 200k and after 15 years already over 3.1%. so you can sleep easy. nobody gets anything for free...
Here in the office next door sits my financing advisor. When we run into each other at the urinal, he rubs the latest interest rate offers in my face... We had almost 50% equity.
just kidding, I’m happy for everyone, I just also know from that colleague who is financing everything today, that even 110% financing is no problem, and that eventually this will backfire. I would simply wish that people were protected from themselves and their ignorance. The advertising on the billboards suggests: anything is possible and it doesn’t cost anything. And if you have no equity, no problem.
This is currently only possible due to the low interest rates. At 5-7% I think 75% wouldn’t even consider building, because the monthly installments would simply be too high.
But I look at our rate, it’s lower than rent. Something like that can really make you think. What I always have to add, of course, is that we will pay at least €5,000 in extra repayments per year, and manage to do so without sacrifice. But even if we didn’t do that, we could live in a house for 20 years which might barely be paid off by then, but perhaps could be refinanced at a similar rate. No one forces you to actually pay off the house during your lifetime :9