Question on mortgage term lengths if anyone's already worked through this recently.
We're very far in the buying process. But it's still possible to change a 2-year into a 5-year mortgage at a slightly higher rate (original quote, in July, was 0.5% more - I suspect it'll be higher now if they need to re-write the terms though).
At 0.5% higher I'd spend about 2k more over the first two years. But I think it's possible that rates will jump to a point where I'd eat that 2k savings (and then some) in the following 3.
We decided to start moving during my wife's maternity leave and as a freelancer running a LTD company it put our plans of porting the mortgage into the dirt, our mortgage broker has said they've become pretty strict in recent years
Question on mortgage term lengths if anyone's already worked through this recently.
We're very far in the buying process. But it's still possible to change a 2-year into a 5-year mortgage at a slightly higher rate (original quote, in July, was 0.5% more - I suspect it'll be higher now if they need to re-write the terms though).
At 0.5% higher I'd spend about 2k more over the first two years. But I think it's possible that rates will jump to a point where I'd eat that 2k savings (and then some) in the following 3.
Anything else I'm not considering?