MSE News: Mortgage holder alert as new figures reveal 370,000 are overpaying

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Hundreds of thousands of homeowners are overpaying on their mortgage because they're languishing on their lender's standard variable rate, new data from the financial regulator has revealed. Yet savings of £1,000s a year may be available if homeowners remortgage to more competitive deals – something they may want to consider sooner rather than later with further interest rate rises expected.

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Sapindus

This article is about borrowers who are paying too much in interest.  There's a large chunk of us who use the term "overpaying" to describe intentionally paying more money than the building society are actually asking for, in order to pay off our mortgages quicker.  It might save confusion if you rephrase the opening sentence and heading of this article.

dark^knight

Sapindus said:

This article is about borrowers who are paying too much in interest.  There's a large chunk of us who use the term "overpaying" to describe intentionally paying more money than the building society are actually asking for, in order to pay off our mortgages quicker.  It might save confusion if you rephrase the opening sentence and heading of this article.

Good call...but how would you re-phrase it?

South_coast

"Paying more than they need to"?