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Flexible Mortgages
Flexible mortgages - a type of mortgage available in the UK, also known as offset or open plan mortgages. Flexible mortgages changed the normal way of banking
when they were introduced by lenders in 1990's
and more and more people in the UK are following the lead and taking advantage of flexible mortgages. Advice and payment quotes are available from a flexible loan broker
by clicking online on the apply now button above.
The way a flexible mortgage works is by keeping all your money with the same finance company, the interest they charge is not on your
mortgage balance but your mortgage balance minus any savings or any amount stored in your current account. The lender will set a maximum limit on the
account similar to an overdraft and you can repeatedly re-borrow up to that limit, meaning any borrowing is at a low flexible mortgage rate rather than
the higher personal loans bank rates.
Flexible Mortgage Calculator
Usually interest is calculated daily, so any changes on the account balance have immediate effect. Your flexible mortgage payments will reduce if you keep more money
in your account. There are several flexible mortgage calculators on the Internet that try to demonstrate this, but as your repayments vary and your
savings and loans can have and affect on flexible mortgage repayment terms.
To ensure you stay on track for repaying your mortgage, you normally get statements monthly showing your your current situation.
If your home goes up in value, it can be revalued and your maximum borrowing limit could be increased, meaning you can always access your equity in
emergencies.
Benefits of a flexible mortgage
There are many benefits of a flexible mortgage, here are just three:-
- Repay your mortgage early - by keeping your savings and your income with flexible mortgages you save the cost of interest so a bigger portion of
your montly repayment will go towards reducing the mortgage capital, enabling you to repay your flexible mortgage earlier
- Higher savings rates and no tax to pay - by keeping your savings and your income with flexible mortgages you save the cost of interest at
flexible mortgages rates rather than a savings rate, this is the equivalent of earning more on your savings (e.g. A flexible mortgage cost of
4.75% would be the equivalent of your savings earning 4.75%). On top of that, because you are saving interest rather than earning it, there
is no tax to pay on your savings.
- Low borrowing rates - any borrowing that you require can be added to flexible mortgages and charged at the flexible mortgage rate. So you could
have a loan for a kitchen at a low flexible mortgages rate rather than the higher personal loan rates available from banks.
How will it help you?
Flexible mortgages can help you with buying a new home (home mortgage), remortgage, repay your mortgage early, refinance to reduce monthly ougoings
or consolidate debts or bad credit, freeing up equity for a new car or home improvements, buying a second property (rather than paying for a second mortgage),
school fees, holidays, Christmas etc. It could also help cope with illness or redundancy by giving the option to reduce mortgage payments or maybe even
have a payment holiday.
More control, more responsability...
A flexible mortgage will give you more control over your finances but you will also have more responsability. You can benefit from using your equity for
borrowing at low rates, you can benefit from overpayments and reducing your flexible mortgage term, but, at the end of the day if you continuously borrow money
and never make overpayments to make up for them, your flexible mortgage will never reduce. These flexible mortgages work well for many people, some months they may
underpay, other months they will overpay to make up the difference. Some make overpayments regularly or occasionally pay in lump sums and these people are likely to
see flexible mortgages paid off quicker. It is up to you to control how you want flexible mortgages to work for you.
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