5% CASH ONLY
15% CASH/CPF
Stamp Duty CASH/CPF
Legal Fee CASH/CPF
After paying for the 5%+15%, you can choose to empty your CPF to borrow lesser from the bank but I won't recommend doing that.
my 2 cents.
say your monthly mortgage will be 2K+ deducted from you and spouse's CPF
1K+ each
say u empty CPF in day 1
new contribution - monthly deduction = minimal.
lose your job,
pay cash !!!!!
my solution?
find an insurance agent.
"invest" in the safest bond fund, money market fund with lowest management fees (... cash need how much effort to manage)
say, 10K.... (park there only, the objective is not to earn superior returns but act as a emergency help)
* please don't cancel the policy within 1 year, the agent will get some bad records for not servincg a policy properly.... ( quantum of your investment cancelled / agent's total sales = x% ; where X cannot be more than a certain number)
then, go ahead to empty cpf.
(unless you think 2.5% interest receivables is better than 1.8% interest
payable)
if lose job,
liquidate the 10K
money back to CPF O account,
can dong 6 months + of mortgage payment while you look for your next job.
with brexit, just marginally settled now, few job are guaranteed.