28 - Complete beginner
28M
Annual Salary: £50k, with discretionary 25% bonus
Other income: Rental property taking in £15k/year (before costs/tax)
Debts
Mortgage: £97k left (2.4% until June 2027, then will refix on whatever the rates have gone up to. Remaining term is 27 years)
Personal loan: £9.1k remaining with 8.5% interest.
Savings:
Pension: ~£14k saved, putting 10% of my salary away and my employer matches up to 5%.
‘Emergency fund’: £5k, standard savings account on 3.3% savings interest
Total expenditure per month is just shy of ~£1.4k, which includes mortgage, personal loan, and other outgoings (groceries, monthly subscriptions etc)
I’m looking for advice on how best to sort my finances to start saving to eventually FIRE.
I recently opened a S&S ISA, looking to put money into a global all trade, but with my personal loan interest rate being so high, I have held off saving anything substantial as I figured it makes more financial sense to clear the loan first then go in hard on the ISA?
Would appreciate any advice, as I’m quite a beginner to this sub and it’s made me re-evaluate my priorities and makes me want to heavily focus on securing a happy early retirement.