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If you are thinking that you would like to buy a home then you may wonder when you should start to save up for the deposit. This is because you will need to put a down payment on a home in most cases before you are allowed a mortgage. This is used to not only show that you are capable of managing your money but so that if the price of the home goes down the mortgage will not be higher than the value of the home.

As a child
It is worth parents encouraging their children to start saving up as soon as possible. Not necessarily with buying a home in mind but teaching them how to save up their money for the future. It can be very satisfying saving up and waiting to buy something so that you know that you have paid for it yourself. Learning to wait for something is a great thing to do and also knowing that feeling of being able to eventually get something that you have always wanted. If they get big chunks of money, perhaps if they are lucky enough to get an inheritance, for example, then it is wise to show them how to put that money away safely to earn interest or gain in value until they need it when they are older. Discouraging them from spending money as soon as they get it and making sure that they have a savings account are really good ways to start to help them.

As a young adult
As they get older then parents have less of an influence and it is more up to the person to make their own mind up about money. It can be difficult to save money but is something which really should be started right away. Once you start earning you tend not to have that much money and it can be a great novelty having regular money to be able to spend on things. However, this is the time when you need to start being really careful. Regularly putting money into a savings account can be a great way to save for different things. Having a lump sum of money can be handy for emergencies, such as car repairs, replacing a broken fridge and paying unexpected bills. However, it is best to try hard not to spend the money if you can as the more that you can accumulate the better.

As someone about to buy a home
Hopefully if you are about to buy a home you will be getting all excited about buying something and thinking hard about what you can afford. At this stage you will be much more motivated to save up and concentrate all your efforts on the home. This might mean that you will be happy to go without other things so that you can put more money towards the home. You will need to be thinking about what else you need to spend money on as well as the deposit though. You will need to pay removal fees, solicitors’ costs and for any repairs or decoration that needs doing in the house that you buy. Even if you buy a place which looks perfectly well decorated there will always be things that you need to buy such as curtains, lightshades, lamps and you may also want things like rugs, pictures and furniture to fit in with the new home. There seems to always be more things that need buying than you might think and so it is a good idea to keep some money in reserve for that as well as putting as much as you can aside towards the deposit. So as you can see you are never too young to start thinking about saving. Getting together a large deposit can be a really useful thing when you are buying a home. Not only can it mean that you might be able to buy a bigger home or one in a nicer area compared with what you might be able to get with a smaller deposit but you will also be able to get a smaller mortgage. This means that you will either be in debt for less time or you will be able to have smaller and more manageable repayments each month. You may even find that you will have more choice of lenders or be able to get better interest rates as you have a nice large amount of money to put down which means that lenders will have more trust in you and see you as less of a risk to lend to. So, there are many advantages to having a large deposit and by starting saving as early as you can, you will have a better chance of getting together a large deposit before you buy your first home.