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Non-resident Mortgages

Non- Residential Mortgages

IPS Financial Advice has specialist expertise in assisting Irish people living abroad in purchasing their dream home in Ireland.

Key questions that most clients have when considering a mortgage are:

There are a number of criteria, or factors that will limit the amount that you can borrow:

  1. To qualify for these mortgages, you must have evidence of a deposit of 35% of the purchase price having been saved, plus disbursements – stamp duty, valuation, engineer, legals.
  2. Central Bank rules dictate that a mortgage should not exceed 3.5 times gross single or combined incomes, this may be further limited if you have other financial commitments such as loan repayments, maintenance payments or indeed children or other financial dependents.
  3. The minimum mortgage approval for this is €100,000 so you would require a deposit of €35k, allowing for a property purchase of €100k

As with all these rules, there are exceptions, so please do talk to us about your individual circumstance.

Exchange Rates vary, but guide rates are US$ 1.0555, £stg.0.84998 and UAE Dirham 3.8835.

So simply put, if your salary is US€8,000 per month, this equates to $96k pa. Your loan repayment capacity would be €336,000, so you need to demonstrate savings of €2,688 per month consistently.

To borrow that full amount of €336,000 (65%) would require a deposit of €181,000 allowing a house purchase of €517,000.

The interest rate on these holiday home loans is 3.3% which matches KBC, AIB, Haven and Pepper variable Loan-to-Value rates and is below BOI at 4.2% and PTSB at 3.9% and below all market standard variable rates.

Although stress tested at a repayment rate per €1000 borrowed at €8 per month, the actual repayment will depend on the term of the loan.

In all cases, we get approval for a maximum term loan. The maximum term loan is 25 years to a maximum age 65 years.

Using our previous example for a loan amount of €336,000:

Amount of Loan  Term          Cost Per €1000 borrowed       Monthly Repayment

€336,000

25 years                                                            €4.90                             €1,646

20 years                                                           €5.70                             €1,915

15 years                                                           €7.05                             €2,369

In all cases, we will require house insurance and life assurance.

As a general guideline, these very roughly approximate 0.015% per month of the value insured, so for a healthy person borrowing €336k, the life insurance will be about €50pcm, and the house insurance about €60 per month.

The once off costs will include Stamp Duty (1% of first €1m, then 2% thereafter), Valuation fee €127, engineer’s costs (optional but €3-5k) and legal fees (€2K+).

Once we get all of the documentation sent, it will be 10 to 14 days for us to get approval in principle.

Approval will be valid for 12 months with the Lender.

If you would like to find out what you can save, just call our Expat Mortgage Manager Darragh O’Sullivan, on 0867246563 or email [email protected]

The non resident mortgage is available to the following

A mortgage for Irish person/s abroad who are looking to purchase a property back in Ireland as either

A) A holiday home or

B) with a view to moving back to live in that property in the short or medium term.

Interest Rates from 2.75% variable and 3.2% Fixed.

The mortgages are with leading Irish based banks and are subject to Irish Central Bank directives and guidelines. The banks and IPS Financial Advice (us) are regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

For more information contact

Darragh O’Sullivan

M: +353 86 7246563

E: [email protected]

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