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Can you easily extend a mortgage?

We have an offset mortgage at a great rate which is .8 over base.
It has about 3 years left on it and we are not "borrowing" very much at the moment.

Our son wants to buy a bigger house (has a flat at the moment) and the best rate he can get is 6%. We want to borrow on our house and lend my son say £100K We could give it to him and if we live for more that 7 years he will not have to pay Inheritance Tax on it.

I very much doubt that we could extend our mortgage at the very favourable rate but would they? Even if they do not would we get a much better rate than our son taking loan to value into account?

Our house is worth about £650K.

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  • Thrugelmir
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    New borrowing will be at current rates. The lender will wish to know the purpose of the equity withdrawl.

    Likewise your son's potential new lender may be uneasy about such a sizable gift. As that's what it'll need to be not a loan.
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