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What's the best way to pay off my mortgage?
Pyanno
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I have an outstanding £12.000 on my mortgage with 8 years left to pay it off. It was taken out in 1990
What will be the best way of dealing with it now the mortgage rate has gone up again. Would I be better off either paying more off a month. Or paying it off now as a lump sum. Or would I save anything by remortgaging to get a better interest rate?
Can anybody advise me what to do please.
Thanks in advance a very confused P.
What will be the best way of dealing with it now the mortgage rate has gone up again. Would I be better off either paying more off a month. Or paying it off now as a lump sum. Or would I save anything by remortgaging to get a better interest rate?
Can anybody advise me what to do please.
Thanks in advance a very confused P.
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It may help if you can say what interest rate you are paying. If the interest rate is higher than you can achieve on a savings account ,then if you can afford it you'd be best to clear the mortgage.The bigger the bargain, the better I feel.
I should mention that there's only one of me, don't confuse me with others of the same name.0 -
it also depends on the mortgage contract itself, some mortgage contracts offer very little in the way of overpayments and some mortgages don't allow for overpayments at all.I am a Mortgage Adviser
You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a mortgage adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.0 -
I made capital repayments every now and then and asked them to recalculate the mortgage repayments each time. Otherwise regular monthly overpayments are just that - overpayments!0
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