HOW TO PAY OFF MORTGAGE EARLY UK - YouTube

Hi Everyone - Welcome back to my channel my name is Jennifer from Mamafurfur

You know it's the home of smart saving, smarter spending, smart living strategies - Today I

want to talk to you about how to pay off your mortgage early particularly if in

the UK - if you've done a Google and our youtube search recently there's a

lot of videos for the US and I'll explain why that they are not so good if

you live in the UK a couple of differences but if you're interesting

paying it more be sure to stay tuned and if you do not currently have a mortgage

do not worry - these same principles can be applied to any lone

whether it be student debt or whether paying credit cards it's the same

philosophy but obviously this is particularly if your interest in paying

off your mortgage early it's one of the steps to being financially free. If

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talk about how to pay off your mortgage annually and this is particularly key in

the UK if you're watching from somewhere else in the world like the US or

Australia you have a couple more choices available to you which is actually quite

exciting then the UK we do and have as much flexibility so I'll talk you

through the options particularly for the UK so let me tell you just a bit how a

mortgage on a large loan is structured from the bank you obviously borrow a set

amount let's say for our mortgage it could be one hundred fifty thousand

pounds they also charge you an interest rate for borrowing that money so for

example they are charging you a fee for lending you that money upfront of course

and that's usually percentage rate and it's given as an average percentage over

the lifespan of that Loan. so with the loan as well you will find as there's one

word that describes most loans and it's called Amortization so let me just go

over what is Amortization and I've got my whiteboard because you know I love my

white board. So Amortization is basically three three parts to every can a big

loan that you take from the bank it is you have the principal which is

basically the physical loan amount so if it's a hundred and fifty days

you borrow from the bank the principle is that hundred and fifty think those

are things that you're paying back to the bank then you have that interest

component which is obviously our huge amount of money that they are charging

as a percentage normally for having that money all right a certain time fee to

tame being the actual third component here so in the UK of course we can have

mortgages I believe up to 13 years perhaps even 35 and you can have it as

short as you like so this is per margin potato same principles applying for a

loan of course but those are the three components and of course a tame you can

actually fix when you take out the lonely ticker at that mortgage you agree

to say number of years to pay off now the reason we brought her amortization

was because people when they're buying properties are buying investments what

they would do is the bank would only lend them that money for a small amount

of time like five years like 10 years at the most and what happened was your

monthly payment to repay the bank with that interest was a huge amount people

could not pay and what happens when people can't pay a mortgage our Lord it

defaults which basically means that you have no way to pay that back you refuse

to pay you go bankrupt and the bank loses our way to get that money back so

they decided they wanted a way for people to get these loans over a longer

period of time but with the bank's also making sure they got that interest

before you default it tends to be that a longer you have a loan there's two

things that usually happen Gavin long let's say for 30 years which

is probably about the average in the UK 25 30 years now a lot of people will pay

off a loan or mortgage early because towards your maybe 50 60 year old they

will be able to cry a little bit more savings and they tend to throw and clear

off the mortgage so the buyer wants a way to make sure they got all that

interest all that value back from you as quickly as possible and this is where

amortization comes in so you may not actually realize this everyone sometimes

things that are long as you pay a fixed amount

see it's gonna be a fixpoint every month for the next 10 years 20 years whatever

they think that they're paying the set amount of interest as a little part

every month it doesn't happen that we because the banks are smart they know

that you may actually pay off that loan early or you may even start the default

so this is what happens it's actually something like this graph where the

ratio of the amount of interest European to the actual amount European off the

principal at the moment you're actually physically pink dome of the amount of

money that you borrowed from the bank so you don't realize on what people don't

realize that roughly 90 percent of your payments at the start are purely

interest covering for the bank 10 percent usually goes to the principal

and what happens is over the lifetime of your mortgage or lauren that starts to

sweat rain so it goes from paying with the principle off and the lace of the

entries so eventually of course you'll be paying pretty much all the principal

down and just a lot of like moment trees if you've ever actually gone up to your

mortgage account perhaps it's at the bank you can go and actually see the

interest payment getting smaller and smaller every single month that is why

they sent up this me so that they get all their money all the profit there you

want to rate at the start and then you start to actually pay off the lawn so

it's a frightening thing to think that happens without you realizing it but we

can use this to our advantage what you really want to do and if you want to pay

off your mortgage early is really attack this principle more than the bank wants

you to so that actually means safety out regular over payments so we're going to

talk to you today about actually how to do that and how to pay off your mortgage

early so the first way to actually pay off that mortgage early or that one is

to use my 10% rule on this channel with mentioned a prepayment before I

personally our family had 22,000 pounds worth of dates just a couple years ago

and my husband brought it from a previous relationship and we attacked

at date and this is the principle that I use we've basically every month

committed to paying 10% more than the minimum and that's where you actually

eat into that principle because you're not just getting the bank what they want

you're beating them at their own game and the great thing is that 10% so let's

see your mortgage payment could be six hundred pounds a month if you I actually

added another 10% on to meet it 660 pounds you'd over the course of a year

actually be giving them over one extra payment a year that little bit extra

which hopefully would entreat the bank for you and your personally with the

excuse the pun that little bit extra then can take a twenty five year

mortgage down to twenty two years without one simple action paying 10

percent more or if you can even stretch it further and further but without

limits in life that is a great place to start

so that 10 percent real is super super easy to say top if you have a mortgage

with your bank of course you can just go to speak to them set up a 10% extra over

payment every month let's it go an autopilot knowing that you are

overpaying on that principle and if you go to a particular website money-saving

expert you will actually find in the UK there's a great calculator there I'll

leave the link in the description bar where you can see the difference that

paying that extra money consistently will make on your mortgage or Lord it is

truly inspiring so the second way that you can make sure you can pay off your

mortgage early is to use those fixed-rate mortgages wherever you can in

the UK when we take care of 25 30 year loan or mortgage we also have the option

to tie down parts of it for a fixed rate so if you do not have a fixed-rate

mortgage what will happen is your mortgage will be subject to the standard

interest rate at that particular month now in a bank that could actually go up

everyone consistently it could go down which means your payment changes

according to the entry the Bank of England now it's not very

green if you're budgeting and you're trying to stick to a strict lifestyle of

knowing exactly what's coming in what's going out and where you like to put all

you'd ever Dean's of money when you'd see to the bank I'd like to fix my terms

for let's see two years for three years they trying to get you the best deal and

normally you can maybe even lock it down at the moment probably 2.1 percent 2.5

percent for two years the longer the length of time that you want to walk

down your payments for for a set period of time

the interest rate will go up and the moment you can even get 10 years I hope

your mortgage is locked down I think for our around with 3 or 4 percent interest

I'm particularly light when I can get a fixed-rate because I know how much my

payments are you're also not subjected to the standard rate which camellia any

point go up down whichever way the Bank of England state but also allows you to

make those Albrecht payments so the bank do want you to take out those fixed

rates so that they guarantee their money but they also know that you're locked in

for a certain period of time so just be aware that sometimes they will have

restrictions like you can only meet 10% extra all repayments in a year so if

your lawn has 150,000 left you're only allowed to make 15,000 extra and

overpayments be sure that you know the terms and conditions when you sign up

for the fixed period of time the fix tree so that you do not make any extra

overpayments and get penalized for it so their third way to pay off your mortgage

early of course is similar to the 10% rule when you receive perhaps a bonus

from work or perhaps your say business is generating a little bit of money

consider if it's worth putting that extra money into your mortgage it will

after all be eating down with principle the physical horn that you took from the

bank which is great because you're not thinking or entrance you're going to

save yourself interest payments but really consider if it's worth throwing

it into the mortgage I like to use the money saving expert calculator that I've

talked both as well in a stable principle but I can't see how much

interest I'll save by putting the 10% rule onto my mortgage when I see it if I

maybe had a bonus mat month I like to see how much I could actually save off

my interest payment and shorten my mortgage if I threw it in there so it's

really quite inspiring every time you seem a little lump sum making sure

that you're putting it in the right place for your needs if your goal is to

be mortgage free make sure you're focusing on any spare money going into

that mortgage if you want in basement perhaps use it there my next tip of

course is to shop around whenever you're not in a fixed rate and tank period of

your mortgage and the yuki i've talked about that we can save up although we

have a 30-year mortgage we've saved up maybe four to three five

years to put into effect stream when you get close to coming out of that

fixed-rate time periods maybe two or three months towards the end the world

is your oyster you can actually shop around and it's not that difficult to

switch your mortgage to another bank usually they'll be maybe small fees to

switch but if the interest rate is a huge difference and it can make such a

difference on your mortgage payment and a total and mainly you actually pay back

take time to shop around use money-saving expert use any comparison

sites you can because you never know you could save yourself money make sure of

course that you are very good looking at your budget if you're struggling make

notes and make up that 10% of our payment or to put extra money into your

mortgage to eat down that principle I have devised the 7d autopilot money

challenge it's a free challenge that's on my blog I'll leave the link below and

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tip on how to pay off your mortgage jelly's of course starting all your

numbers don't be frightened of the maths and bolt it's very easy to actually go

onto your lien vent banking and see your mortgage see actually break it down into

what you're actually paying every month how much interest your pink where it's

all going don't be scared to know exactly how much

you could see by making over payments and particularly to go and see how much

mortgages dropped by every month the interest rate and how much our interest

payment has dropped by and then I like to use that comparison tool money-saving

expert but if I get inspired and thinks you know what I might even try to put

C&H or 10 pounds consistently every month what would that do for a mortgage

every time that you play around with the numbers get a bit more money olestra you

will absolutely have the power of back in your court rather than in the banks

so unless a nice little section I want to teach you our principle that if

you're able to get a large amount of money saved up - throughout your

mortgage how you can pay off your mortgage super quickly perhaps even five

six seven years now if you were to do a Google search on youtube search right

now for the fees going to pay off your mortgage early it will be filled with a

lot of us-based videos that the information does not really apply to the

UK reason being when I was doing my research for this video and in my own

life the US are able to use a credit card to pay off their mortgage if they

wish in the UK we do not have that option as far as I'm aware I formed a

couple of banks but one body would not take a credit card payment and a couple

the other ones that I've tried the reason behind that is if you think about

it you've probably got that card from them already so they have land lent you

a certain amount of money let's say 10,000 pounds credit limit they do not

want you to use that money against them to pay off that bigger day they're gonna

lose interest payments from you so they will not allow it so as it really you

know within their terms well in their knives it's their money that they have

given you that created nought for that template upon credit card so they can do

what they want in the u.s. they do not have those restrictions they can use a

credit card so this is why this particular version using amortization

and throwing ones that your mortgage works for them to get rid of they're

more of you super quickly if you have developed strategies that

allowing you to have saved businesses and that you have a good solid large

amount of cash flow in your house think about using this strategy and you'll get

rid of your mortgage super quickly as well managing your amortization when we

talked about it was the basic fact that you at the start of a mortgage will be

paying off a huge amount of interest 90 percent of your payment

all the interest 10% will be the physical principle the actual Borden

part that switches as we get longer into the mortgage in the u.s. what they often

seem to actually pay off their mortgage early is to use that credit card that

Lane up credit to credit and funds to you that you don't already have in your

purse right now use it to advantage and pay off your mortgage F for example

every time you maxed out your credit card against your mortgage so you fund

the bank you said right put down a thousand

pounds or name and a half those and prints at my team phase and creat limit

against my mortgage and then what you do is you may then use your what monthly

wage to pay off the credit card now I know what you're thinking credit cards

are usually 20% interest rate charges this only has a 2% Jennifer yes but the

total physical amount of money you actually give the bank back on that 20%

is far smaller than you pay them for the mortgage so that's why people say to use

it that because of physical all of the interest rates are vastly different it's

the physical money that could be different that card may only have a

minimum payment of 90 pounds whereas you are paying 600 pounds or 500 pounds an

interest on that every single month so well they will see it as as soon as you

can through a money a big lump sum and what will happen is this will start to

go down then use the next let's see if you need 6 wages to click on that card

take that time meet your normal minimum payments in your mortgage and your

credit cards and through your money in the credit card to clean it then as soon

as you get that limit down to 0 again do the same again through a money otter and

do the same and basically that's how within such a short period of time

because you're throwing money and you must make sure that the bank knew that

you want off the principal not the end trace when you say it not up because

you're reducing the physical amount of law and that's why in theory let's see

if you were able to do 10,000 panes and 150,000 lon even every six months or so

you would quickly see that in under maybe seven years you could have paid

off that mortgage mortgage completely which is incredible and fortunately it

doesn't work in the UK with credit cards so we actually physically need to have

that 10,000 paints saved up so that could be a goal for you you know you

could make a commitment that you're gonna every time you work towards

savings in your bank that is sent only be committing on investments or putting

it towards a family quality you're going to like for the next five years through

all money at your mortgage then it is totally possible to use the bank against

themselves and through an anthem I personally I would rather do a couple of

different methods I've talked about here and it's just a shame that the u.s. they

aren't always like the different methods that we can get there a little bit

quicker but it's the only method that works by throwing junk songs out it use

money saving expect to find out how much you could save

but always remember there might be some penalties involved in paying off unborn

early thanks so much for watching today of course all the principles I talked

about the 10% overpayment show up in your road you know even see if you can

throw money out as best you can using the tools online to see how much money

you would actually seem interest rate you receive bipinnate rewards of cash

after make sure you apply all of this when you're dealing with the mortgage

are actually any loan at all whether it be a student loan credit card day

anything of that really take time to see if you could apply these in your own

life and I say I absolutely apply the 10% rule to our own date which is our

mortgage at the moment it works for us anytime we get a lump sum I came to st.

if I'm based or put into the mortgage I based it on the current situation on

that time take that time to get as much financial knowledge as you can it truly

will change your life when you are smarter than the bank be sure to hit

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I'll wait to pay off that mortgage early let me know in the comments I'd love to

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