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Remortgage with Nationwide or someone else...

I am just in the last 3 months of a 5 year fix with Nationwide at 5.08%. I currently have around 110k left to pay and the property is worth 230k.

I make an over payment every month of between £200 and £500 on the current mortgage and have done so every month since taking it out and this is a feature I would like to keep.

I can fix now for 3 years (starting in sept 2011) with nationwide at 3.69% with a 999 fee and 400 cash back. Does this sound reasonable or is it worth visiting a broker to check out other deals?

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  • TrickyDicky101
    TrickyDicky101 Posts: 3,535 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    If you fix with Nationwide you lose the BMR rate (2.5% currently) and will go onto their SVR when the new fix ends (currently 3.99%). BMR is a very good deal.
  • Matt002
    Matt002 Posts: 83 Forumite
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    edited 1 June 2011 at 10:27PM
    Are there any downsides to going on the BMR? Assume I can switch onto a fix if the rate starts to go up? it probably wont be fixed at 3.69% by then though?
  • ab7167
    ab7167 Posts: 680 Forumite
    If you remortgaged onto a new deal you will lose the ability to withdraw overpayments as well, I think - check this carefully if it is important to you.

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  • InkZ
    InkZ Posts: 258 Forumite
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    Personally I'd go on to BMR and overpay like crazy whilst rates are low.
  • Matt002
    Matt002 Posts: 83 Forumite
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    I'm starting to think the BMR is the way forward then:beer:. Is the overpayment amount totally unlimited on the BMR? I could probably afford overpayments of around 800 a month on that. I have a 10k lump sum coming my way in the near future, is it worth paying that in towards paying the mortgage or dumping it in a savings account?

    I see that some people manage to change onto the BMR early with their nationwide fixes. I take it they have stopped that now as I had no option to do it on the online switcher...
  • djdust
    djdust Posts: 169 Forumite
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    zzr-matt wrote: »
    I'm starting to think the BMR is the way forward then:beer:. Is the overpayment amount totally unlimited on the BMR? I could probably afford overpayments of around 800 a month on that. I have a 10k lump sum coming my way in the near future, is it worth paying that in towards paying the mortgage or dumping it in a savings account?

    Yep, on the BMR, you can overpay as much as you like so, chuck as much as you can into it!! :)
  • hcb42
    hcb42 Posts: 5,962 Forumite
    sounds like better deal not to fix, but I recently did a fix of less %, no fee and £300 cash back....direct with my lender. (I hate paying these fees lol!) LTV similar to yours.
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