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Question re interest only mortgage

If someone has an IO mortgage and wants to change it to part/full repayment, under the new mortgage rules do they have to reapply and go through the normal affordability checks please? I changed mine years ago and just had to ring the lender and tell them what proportion I wanted where and it was done free of charge. I'm guessing it's not like that now? Thanks all.

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  • amnblog
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    Full underwriting for such a change. Check your terms and you should be able to overpay voluntarily without penalty to same effect, leaving the mortgage as 'interest only'.
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  • CathA
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    amnblog wrote: »
    Full underwriting for such a change. Check your terms and you should be able to overpay voluntarily without penalty to same effect, leaving the mortgage as 'interest only'.

    Thank you, that's what I thought.
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