Hi, any advice on the following would be appreciated. We (married, 2 small kids) would like to buy a house in South Dublin. We have an OK deposit (€80k) but can only get €120k mortgage due to single income with kids even though my husband has a good job! We currently pay almost 3 times in rent what the bank calculates we can afford on a mortgage! A couple who are friends of ours who have no mortgage (own their own house, grown up kids etc) are interested in purchasing a house with us. It would be an investment for them but we would live in it. We would contribute €200k-ish - it would potentially be 2/3 owned by us 1/3 them or 50/50, depending on house price. This is a means of getting on the property ladder rather than finding our dream family home so selling on after a few years would be fine if we can't buy them out. I'm just wondering how we might go about this as we wouldn't have a joint mortgage - we would each just partly own the house - us through mortgage/cash and them through cash. We're at very early stages of discussion and would definitely get finer details and paperwork covered through solicitors if we did go ahead….I just can't seem to find a precedent for this kind of idea on any forums! Any advice?