How To Cut The Cost Of Your Mortgage

By Author: Bonny Kominek
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The vast majority of homeowners have a repayment mortgage, which means that they pay off part of the loan capital each month as well as the interest of the loan. The main advantage of this arrangement is that once the mortgage is over, you will not have to pay any more money.

Another option is to take out an interest only mortgage. With this type of arrangement, you only need to pay the interest every month, meaning that monthly payments will be a lot smaller.

At the end of the loan period of an interest only mortgage, you have to repay the capital that you owe in full. The best way to do this is to pay a certain amount of money each month into an investment vehicle such as an ISA or a corporate bond fund.

The main risk attached to an interest only mortgage is that you might not have enough funds at the end of the mortgage to pay off the capital part of the loan, and may have to sell the property if you do not have any other assets.

One way to cut your mortgage costs is to remortgage your home at a cheaper rate. However, there are usually penalties for doing so, so you should work out whether these ...
... will cancel out the advantages of remortgaging before you do this.

You can cut the overall cost of your mortgage by choosing to pay the mortgage fees upfront, rather than including them with your repayments, as interest will accrue on these fees if you do this.

If you are going through a tough time financially, you might want to consider taking a mortgage repayment holiday. This means that your repayments will be put on hold for a fixed period of time, and the overall length of your mortgage extended by the same length of time.

While a mortgage repayment holiday will save you money in the short term, it will make the overall length of your mortgage longer, and the overall cost of the loan will increase, due to the interest payments that you miss being added on to the total cost of your mortgage. Bonny Kominek is the author of this article. Alliance