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Hi everyone and welcome to another
edition of Homebuyer's School, today I'm joined by Troy Champ, mortgage
advisor with the Mortgage Tree, and today the topic that we're looking to discuss
is, saving for a down payment on a house. So for the first question Troy is, how
much should I save on a down payment for a house?
Well the minimum down payment on
a house is 5% of the purchase price if your purchase price is under 500,000, the
best way to start saving for that is just with your personal savings. If you
don't have any money there, a great way to do it is through your RRSP's. You're
allowed to use your RRSP's as a first-time homebuyer so the nice thing
about investing money into your RRSP's is you get money back when you do your
income taxes which you can then reinvest into RRSP's to increase the amount of
your total down payment.
So is there any other ways besides an RRSP to save?
Well you can save through TFSA's,
your personal savings account and
sometimes the bank will even allow you
to borrow some of your down payment.
Okay, and when should I start saving for a down payment?
It's never too early to start saving, it does take quite a while to save up 5%
and I could say that if you are short, there are a few programs out there called a
flex down mortgage where you're able to borrow a portion or all of your down
payment as long as your credit meets their minimum requirements and that you
can debt service that loan payment.
And when you're looking at the flex down
payment, is that paid through the course of your mortgage?
So it's a separate loan
for a flex down mortgage, the loan for the down payment's
completely outside of the mortgage and you're just taking a personal loan and
using that towards the shortfall of your down payment.
Great. Is there other things you want to add in terms of
saving for down payment?
It's easiest to save monthly, and I think if you set monthly goals that's going to
make it much more attainable rather than if you have a yearly goal.
And for a first-time homebuyer, is this something that they should be saving
years out in advance?
Yeah it's going to take a few years to save when you're
looking at the average home in Calgary being over $400,000 takes quite a while
to save up that $20,000, so the earlier you start the better off it is.
Awesome, well thank you very much for the information. Thank you for joining
us and we'll catch you next time.
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