RE: 5.6p26 Feb 2021 23:08
Sheena, I tell you the mistake we made. I made that amount of money investing in Germany and I paid capital gains tax for that over there. My hubby was still in the army, so we had most of the funds, are I sold out over there, transferred through the bank from Germany to our UK bank, but the initial down payment for the house, we decided to take out in cash and present it to the selling mortgage company in a coffer (Goodness, we were so naive :-) ) and they raised questions and the evidence that everything was kosher, was in a removal box on a removal truck, with an ETA of three weeks later :-) CRIKEY! Were we relieved, when we opened that box lol, as we knew that sometimes they removal companies lose boxes, never to be seen again. So it's a very boring story :-) But if you buy a house cash, it does raise eyebrows.