First time buyers can borrow more, but the €106,000 tax free gift is going

Coalition party ChristenUnie wants to stop the government pressing ahead with mortgage market reforms which would allow couples to fully count both their incomes in a mortgage application, the Financieele Dagblad reported on Wednesday. From next year, the ‘second’ income will count 100% when working out how much a couple can spend. At the moment only 90% is added to the mortgage calculations. ‘We are currently only thinking about building, but we should also look at micro developments in the...