Overpaying mortgage and thinking of moving house...

themetunegal

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Hello

Would be very grateful for your advice please on the below two queries:

Query 1:

We are currently overpaying our mortgage, and have been since we started it in 2006. Consequently we have reduced the term from 30 years to about 10 remaining at this point.

We are thinking of moving house next year, so I am wondering if we should continue to overpay the mortgage (we have a good tracker rate) or revert to remaining 20 years of original term and save the money instead so we have it to hand as cash?

Perhaps there is little difference in the two options, but would be grateful for your opinion.

Query 2:

If we move house, would we be allowed to bring the tracker with us for the amount remaining on the mortgage in our current house and then get the remainder of the new mortgage on a variable / fixed rate.

Perhaps this is a laughable question, but it would be good to know if this could be a possibility at all.

With thanks for your help.
 
Most lenders allow you to bring the tracker with them, but charge an extra 1%. Which lender are you with?

You are absolutely crazy to be overpaying your mortgage.

Let's say you had not overpaid it and you have a balance of €100k when you want to move and you need to borrow an additional €80k.
You would have a tracker of €100k + €80k at market rates.

Now that you have overpaid and reduced the balance to €50k, you will have a tracker of €50k and €130k @ market rates.

Brendan
 
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