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another equity loan question

freeflyer
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edited 7 April 2017 at 11:06AM in Mortgages & endowments
I'm quite clueless about mortgages, interest etc etc it has to be said. I just do what the broker suggests when it comes to renewing my mortgage deal and thats about it really.

Anyway, I've got a *developer* based share equity, which is coming to the end of its 5 year interest free period.
  • The value of the house was £125,000
  • I put 10% deposit
  • The developer put 10% .
  • The mortgage is currently at 86,100.
  • I have approx 10,500 saved up which i was going to use to pay off the 10% equity loan (obviously i'm not quite there).
  • I did a new two year fixed mortgage in summer last year, currently repaying around £460 a month.

But i'm a little unsure what to do about the equity loan now.
Given the above figures, whats the best thing to do? I don't want to totally reduce my savings to zero, i'd like to keep a bit back, even if its only £1000.
  1. Pay off part of the equity loan to the developer (perhaps £6-8k)
  2. Put the developer loan onto the mortgage
  3. put the £6-8k into the mortgage as overpayment.
  4. Try and source the extra 2.5k and pay off the developer loan fully (assuming it is still at £12500, which i'm not currently sure of)
Any suggestions?
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