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Mortgage Interest query

I wonder can anyone explain this for me or shall I ask my branch? I have a Halifax mortgage which had a higher fixed rate until November 2013 at that time I was making monthly payments of £515 and my interest was averaging at £170. When my interest rate changed I am now being charged around £120 interest, a reduction of £50 and yet my payment is £492 a reduction of only £23,, why is this??

Comments

  • I'd ask the branch - there are many reasons that this type of change can occur and without seeing every transaction on all of your sub accounts, it's hard to comment
    So many glitches, so little time...
  • Halifax customer here, just to say that the answer you will get from asking in branch is "Please phone our mortgage team on XXX"

    I am overpaying monthly, and when my higher interest ended the monthly payments remained the same.
  • Foxy-Stoat_3
    Foxy-Stoat_3 Posts: 2,980 Forumite
    I think you have your figures round the wrong way...

    My Halifax mortgage payments where £650 pm last year. I paid £7,800 for 12 months and the capital that I paid off was around £2300...and who said renting was dead money !
    "Dream World" by The B Sharps....describes a lot of the posts in the Loans and Mortgage sections !!!
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