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What age did you pay off mortgage ?
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ian1246 said:74 years old is when my mortgage is until.
Currently 35 years old, just come out of a divorce & had to take a 40 year mortgage to be able to comfortably afford the mortgage on my new house.
Fortunately the first £3700 from a 12month regular saver has just matured, so hopefully that'll be my first overpayment! My son also starts School in September, freeing up another £200 a month in saved childcare fee's.
I could have had a smaller term, but then I'd be locked in paying a set amount. Currently I can overpay if I have the capability.
On top of that, in the long run the mortgage amount will shrink with inflation, whilst my income will grow...0 -
Will be 45 when mine is paid (9 payments to go!)1
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Just after my 54th birthday. Could have paid it off around when I turned 50, but that would have consumed everything and left me with no emergency fund. As it was base + 0.24% I was usually able to get better returns or use the offset facility when I couldn't. When I got to the point of having a couple of years of emergency fund left post mortgage repayment I took the decision to clear it.I live alone so one wage paying all the bills, not two, and have a disability so have to consider that I may not always be able to work. Having the security of knowing the house is entirely mine is huge.For comparison my dad was just short of 65 and mandatory retirement (as it was then) when my parents finished their 25 year term.Proud member of the wokerati, though I don't eat tofu.Home is where my books are.Solar PV 5.2kWp system, SE facing, >1% shading, installed March 2019.Mortgage free July 20231
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MWT said:Could have paid it off when I was 43, but as it was an offset mortgage we kept it going until maturity when I was 61. Paid little or no interest for the vast majority of that time but having a line of credit available to use at will over those years was very handy.
We actually borrowed against it before it was drawn, as we'd applied for more than we needed, intending to immediately have a lump sum in the offset, but 'needed' to buy out the property at the start of the chain to hold the house purchase together, so used some of it for a deposit on that property.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.1 -
I took my first mortgage at age 21 and had mortgages (sometimes more than one) continuously until I was 65. I just continuously remortgaged and bought more property whenever I could. Best thing I ever did.....using other people's money to grow & build capital. I don't understand those that want to pay a mortgage off asap.1
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Hopefully when I'm 52 (give or take). I'm 41 now and have around 90k left and we try to reduce the term by overpaying on each new deal, although this year we've had an increase after locking in a new 2 year deal. Hopefully the deals come down again by the time we remortgage. We were looking at moving to a bigger home, but I'm really quite against it as we wouldn;t be mortgage free until in our 60's.0
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49, so 10 months to run and we are clearing it (monies sitting gathering max interest). One other property to then focus on, wee holiday apt (retirement location). Sell the main home for good amount.......
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