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How banks respond to borrowers wanting to make extra or early ... (Interest.co.nz)

The terms and conditions for extra home loan repayments or lump sum payments differ between banks, with some much more generous than others.

This means that you may have to pay an early repayment charge on any early repayments you make during a fixed rate period." If cost of living goes up 2% as well, your ratio does not need to change, therefore in 10 years your repayments will be 20% higher. They manage to conflate price inflation (which doesn't erode debt in in real terms) with monetary inflation (which does) so completely, that you almost get whiplash reading it. Imagine using up all your cash to pay off a paltry sum on your loan and then not have enough to keep you safe between jobs. They manage to conflate price inflation (which doesn't erode debt in in real terms) with monetary inflation (which does) so completely, that you almost get whiplash reading it. Committing to extra repayments over the remaining for years of a five year term is a big ask. Imagine using up all your cash to pay off a paltry sum on your loan and then not have enough to keep you safe between jobs. The table above suggests there are a wide variety of approaches to how banks will handle a lump sum repayment to a fixed rate mortgage contract. Want to pay off 10% of your loan in one go and your rate is months from renewing? Things can get a little less flexible when you want to make a one-off, lump sum repayment into a fixed rate loan. This is a lot of extra repayment, given that the scheduled repayments ran at $19.4 bln in the same year. In June 2021, when those rates were 2.53% on average, borrowers had in fact reduced their excess to 5.4% of the total liability.

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