What’s on the The Cost of Buying poster
A 7-row table: Cost · Roughly · When.
Names vary by country; the categories are near-universal.
- Deposit — 5–20% of price — On exchange
- Stamp duty / transfer tax — 0–12%, banded — On completion
- Legal fees — £1,000–2,000 — On completion
- Survey — £400–1,500 — Before exchange
- Mortgage arrangement fee — £0–2,000 — Often added to the loan
- Searches — £250–500 — During conveyancing
- Moving costs — £500–2,000 — On the day
General education. Adding a mortgage fee to the loan means paying interest on it for the whole term.
Questions about the The Cost of Buying poster
- What’s on the The Cost of Buying poster?
- A 7-row table: Cost · Roughly · When. Names vary by country; the categories are near-universal. Deposit — 5–20% of price — On exchange; Stamp duty / transfer tax — 0–12%, banded — On completion; Legal fees — £1,000–2,000 — On completion; Survey — £400–1,500 — Before exchange; Mortgage arrangement fee — £0–2,000 — Often added to the loan; Searches — £250–500 — During conveyancing; Moving costs — £500–2,000 — On the day. General education. Adding a mortgage fee to the loan means paying interest on it for the whole term.
- Who is the The Cost of Buying poster for?
- The Cost of Buying belongs to the Money section rather than to a school year, because money is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning property can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the The Cost of Buying poster?
- Budget 3–5% of the purchase price for costs on top of the deposit. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so The Cost of Buying belongs on the wall where that money work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with The Cost of Buying?
- Buying vs Renting, Energy Efficiency and Home Emergencies sit alongside The Cost of Buying in the Money section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Buying vs RentingEnergy EfficiencyHome Emergencies
- Is the The Cost of Buying poster free to download and print?
- Yes. The Cost of Buying downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Money section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the The Cost of Buying poster print at?
- The Cost of Buying is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of The Cost of Buying loses nothing.Printing guide
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