ok way off topic, but I've been looking at this for hours now and my head hurts
trying to work out the best time to pay off a mortgage (within the next 6 months or so) and what the total cost will be to the nearest few £ (there
are early repayment fees and other costs involved)
trouble is its calculated using a daily interest rate - which they don't tell you anywhere as far as I know
all I know is that its a Halifax mortgage with fixed rate of 2.94% APR
I assume its compunding daily but they don't tell you
(its like pulling teeth tring to get good info....)
i found a few rate converters online (mostly american) but then i found out that american APR is different from ours
can someone please tell me how to get an accurate daily rate for my calcs
cheers
-Robert
Mine is on my annual statement if I remember rightly? It's a tiny number, something like 0.004 %.
its not on the statment that we've got
If your trying to save money. Pay your mortgage off as soon as you can.
Less interest is payed that way.
Its basically (but not entirely accurately) your monthly interest divided by the number of days in the month. If I remember right from my 4 year
sentence at rbs, interest is calculated on a daily basis by computers, added monthly, so if you say £200 of interest was added last month, then its
safe to assume the daily rate is 200/30
So about 6.66 a day. Youre only going to be pennies out
Best time to pay it off is as soon as you can. After that youll only be paying more interest, unless theres something in your question im really not
getting?
2.94%/365 days is 0.008, but remember the balance on the account is constantly changing too
Sent u2u
The other option is what my friend is doing. He has tried to pay his mortgage off early, but he has an early redemption penalty of a couple of k. He's basically frozen his mortgage at something like £50 outstanding, so he's paying a few pennies a year interest but he's avoiding the early penalty fee. Seems absolute nonsense, but five years of pennies against thousands is definitely worth it.
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Originally posted by Slimy38He's basically frozen his mortgage at something like £50 outstanding,
Why not request a variety of redemption quotes with different end dates from the lender?
Let them do the hard work.
They shouldn't charge for them.
Halifax (and probably the others) are a bit cheeky on their rates.
They calculate compound interest daily (fair enough) but that The rate per day = your annual rate / 365
(not sure about leap years but lets not worry here)
As you will quickly notice the amount you pay over a year is higher than the annual rate (owing to the compounding effect), it does appear to be
legal, although it does strike me as corrupt. It adds up to about £50 a year per £100k on your rate, which isn't much but is still theft.
A couple of ways of calculating the compound interest but the easiest is probably with Excel and do it for everyday. That should be good to the
nearest penny. If you only need to be good to the nearest pound then you can reduce the frequency of the calculations (perhaps to your payment
dates).
Regarding paying off the mortgage, you might consider leaving it owing them £200 or so, that way you might avoid an early redemption payment. Nothing
like a £3.47 mortgage payment. If you pay off the mortgage completely with more than 10years to run then they may charge you something.
Matt
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Originally posted by blakep82
Its basically (but not entirely accurately) your monthly interest divided by the number of days in the month. If I remember right from my 4 year sentence at rbs, interest is calculated on a daily basis by computers, added monthly, so if you say £200 of interest was added last month, then its safe to assume the daily rate is 200/30
So about 6.66 a day. Youre only going to be pennies out
I built an Excel file to work this out to the day for the purposes of calculating over payment gains.
You enter the outstanding balance / date / APR and then add in your monthly payments and any over payments.
Checked against the banks calculations it's within £1 by the end of the term (10 yrs).
U2U me your email address and I'll happily send it over to you.