The clock is ticking for buyers and homeowners who want to grab a low mortgage rate in 2014. But if you stay on top of your game, keep your finances in order and act quickly, you can still grab attractive mortgage deals.
These 10 mortgage tips can help you with your mortgage decisions in 2014.
1. Document your finances. Lenders will be extra diligent when underwriting home loans in 2014, as new mortgage regulations went into effect in January. The rules put pressure on lenders to verify that borrowers have the ability to repay their loans.
Keep good records of your finances, including bank statements, tax returns, W-2s, investment accounts and any other assets you own. Be ready to explain any unusual deposits to your accounts. Yes, the $500 that Grandma deposited in your account for Christmas could delay your loan closing if you can't prove where the money came from.
2. Lock a rate as soon as you can. Rates will likely climb in 2014 as the Federal Reserve is expected to reduce the pace of the economic stimulus program that has long helped keep rates low. If you are planning to get a mortgage, lock in a rate as soon as you are comfortable with the numbers.
3. Refinance now - if you still can. Many homeowners lost the opportunity to refinance at a lower rate when rates jumped in 2013. But those who are still paying more than 5 percent interest on their home loans might still have an opportunity.
If you think you may be able to save with a refinance, but you are not sure, it doesn't hurt to try. Speak to a loan officer and take a look at the numbers to see if refinancing still makes financial sense for you after you consider how long it will take to break even with the closing costs.
4. Buyers, use your bargaining power. As mortgage rates climbed, lenders lost a big chunk of their refinance business. In 2014, they will turn their attention to homebuyers and will fiercely compete for their business. Buyers should take advantage of bargaining power they gain with that increased competition. Shop around for the best deal and look beyond the interest rate on the loan.
5. Learn your rights as a borrower. Mortgage borrowers will get many new rights as consumers this year when new mortgage rules created by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau go into effect in 2014. If you run into issues with your mortgage servicer in 2014 or fall behind on your payments, make sure you are aware of your rights and put them to use.
6. Take good care of your credit. It's nearly impossible to get a mortgage without decent credit these days. That will continue to be the case in 2014. If you are planning to get a mortgage, monitor your credit history and score until your loan closes. The best mortgage rates usually go to borrowers with credit scores of 720 or higher. You may still get a mortgage with a score of 680, but lower scores will mean higher rates or higher closing costs.
7. Don't overspend. Lenders don't want to give out loans to borrowers who will have little money left each month after they pay their mortgages and other debt obligations such as credit cards and student loans. If that becomes the case, the lender will tell you that your DTI, or debt-to-income ratio, is too high and you don't qualify for a loan. Try to keep your monthly debt obligations, including your mortgage and property taxes, below 43 percent of your income.
8. Consider alternative mortgage options such as ARMs. Mortgage rates are rising, but there are alternatives to grab a lower rate, depending on your plans.
A homeowner planning to keep a house for seven to 10 years could take advantage of lower mortgage rates by choosing a seven- or 10-year ARM instead of the 30-year traditional fixed-rate mortgage. Rates on adjustable-rate mortgages can be as much as 1 percentage point lower than on fixed-rate loans.
If you are not sure for how long you plan to keep the house, a fixed-rate loan is probably the better choice.
9. Considering an FHA loan? Reconsider. FHA loans have long been popular among first-time homebuyers because they require low down payments and have somewhat less strict underwriting standards than conventional loans. But they come at a price. Mortgage insurance premiums on FHA loans are likely to continue to rise in 2014, and after recent changes, the borrower is now required to pay for mortgage insurance for the life of the loan. Try to qualify for a conventional loan before you apply for an FHA mortgage.
10. Don't panic. Yes, mortgage rates will likely climb in 2014. But don't panic, thinking you have to buy a home now to grab a low rate. If you are shopping for a home, do your best to move quickly, but remember that this is one of the biggest financial decisions of your life. Get your mortgage and buy your home when you feel ready.
Canada Scraps 'Millionaire Visa,' Sends B.C. Property Market Reeling
Real estate agents in Vancouver say property prices could take a hit, after Canada scrapped a program which allowed wealthy immigrants to fast-track the visa process.
The Immigrant Investor Program, launched in 1986, offered visas to business people with a net worth of at least $1.6 million who were willing to lend $800,000 to the Canadian government — for investment across Canada — for a term of five years.
By 2012, the scheme had to be temporarily frozen due to a huge backlog of applications from wealthy mainland Chinese hoping to come to B.C. Now, the government has announced it will end the program for good and scrap all 59,000 applications backlogged worldwide.
The decision came less than a week after the South China Morning Post published a series of exclusive investigative reports into the controversial scheme.
Property prices could take a hit
In West Vancouver, real estate agent Clarence Debelle is still receiving offers from mainland China for luxury property, but she’s concerned the end of the investor program will have an impact on the local economy and the high-end housing market.
“I deal directly with these people who bring a lot of wealth, who are creating lots of jobs for local Canadians — builders, trades, architects, realtors like myself,” said Debelle.
“Most of the buying is coming from Chinese immigrants who are wealthy, so if we make it difficult for them to come into this country, we have killed 80 to 90 per cent of the buying in West Vancouver.”
Immigration lawyer Richard Kurland agrees.
“When you suddenly stave off the intake of literally hundreds of millionaires in the Vancouver property market, prices can only go one way and that’s down,” said Kurland.
Market impacted by more than investors
Others aren’t so sure. Even with the investor program frozen, housing prices continued to rise.
Tom Davidoff with UBC’s Sauder School of Business says the market is driven by other things like low interest rates and the local and global economies.
“Given that in the last couple of years, we haven’t seen the market cool off, it’s hard to believe that freezing the investor market is going to kill even the high-end in Vancouver,” said Davidoff.
The government has also announced the end of the Entrepreneur Program, a smaller scheme for business people who plan to own and manage a business in Canada.
However, wealthy investors can still come to Canada through the Start-up Visa Program, which encourages immigrant entrepreneurs to partner with private sector organizations to invest in local start-ups.
The Immigrant Investor Program, launched in 1986, offered visas to business people with a net worth of at least $1.6 million who were willing to lend $800,000 to the Canadian government — for investment across Canada — for a term of five years.
By 2012, the scheme had to be temporarily frozen due to a huge backlog of applications from wealthy mainland Chinese hoping to come to B.C. Now, the government has announced it will end the program for good and scrap all 59,000 applications backlogged worldwide.
The decision came less than a week after the South China Morning Post published a series of exclusive investigative reports into the controversial scheme.
Property prices could take a hit
In West Vancouver, real estate agent Clarence Debelle is still receiving offers from mainland China for luxury property, but she’s concerned the end of the investor program will have an impact on the local economy and the high-end housing market.
“I deal directly with these people who bring a lot of wealth, who are creating lots of jobs for local Canadians — builders, trades, architects, realtors like myself,” said Debelle.
“Most of the buying is coming from Chinese immigrants who are wealthy, so if we make it difficult for them to come into this country, we have killed 80 to 90 per cent of the buying in West Vancouver.”
Immigration lawyer Richard Kurland agrees.
“When you suddenly stave off the intake of literally hundreds of millionaires in the Vancouver property market, prices can only go one way and that’s down,” said Kurland.
Market impacted by more than investors
Others aren’t so sure. Even with the investor program frozen, housing prices continued to rise.
Tom Davidoff with UBC’s Sauder School of Business says the market is driven by other things like low interest rates and the local and global economies.
“Given that in the last couple of years, we haven’t seen the market cool off, it’s hard to believe that freezing the investor market is going to kill even the high-end in Vancouver,” said Davidoff.
The government has also announced the end of the Entrepreneur Program, a smaller scheme for business people who plan to own and manage a business in Canada.
However, wealthy investors can still come to Canada through the Start-up Visa Program, which encourages immigrant entrepreneurs to partner with private sector organizations to invest in local start-ups.
Foreign Worker Program Works Fine, If Properly Done, Unions Say
EDMONTON - While the federal government’s temporary foreign worker program has been criticized for allowing some firms to undercut Canadian wages and lay off staff, two unions support the program in principle.
“Some trades cannot supply the manpower needed during peak periods, and for us that is spring and fall when energy firms do their turnarounds and close for several weeks,” said Joseph Maloney, an international vice-president of the Boilermakers union.
His union trains boilermakers and works closely with “quality contractors” to ensure properly trained staff are available. And when they are short, they use the TFW program.
“We bring in about 400 journeymen in the spring and fall from our pools in the U.S. and Ireland, where they are trained to the same standards as Alberta boilermakers and welders. When they come they are paid the same as Canadians and are treated the same,” he said.
“When properly used, this program is able to assist contractors and unions to get these jobs completed on time and on budget, and safely.”
The Ironworkers union, which saw 65 of its members laid off last week and replaced by Croatian TFWs, still supports the program, says Harry Tostawaryk, business manager of Local 720.
“We assist contractors, we go to trade fairs, and we work with them to ensure workers meet the criteria,” he said.
But the problem with the Pacer-Promec Joint Venture (PPJV) at Imperial’s Kearl oilsands project goes back several months when Tostawaryk said his union “told (PPJV) that the Croatians did not meet the standards, but they brought them anyways.”
The federal government has promised to investigate this incident and Tostawaryk said that will impact other companies.
“The other contractors who are doing the program correctly, the PCLs, KBRs and Horton CBIs, will have a harder time bringing people in here because the government is going to scrutinize more.”
Tostawaryk said none of the ironworkers who were laid off last week have been called back, and the Croatian workers are still on the site.
“Some of the guys want to go back to the (PPJV) project, but others have taken other jobs. I told them that if (PPJV) called we would work with them and get them back, but other contractors have also put in extra calls to pick up these (laid off) ironworkers.”
Meanwhile, Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan said Monday that the actions of PPJV are “a perfect example of how this (TFW) program is being used to drive down wages. And this situation is not unique. This is happening at work sites all over the country because this is how the TFW program is designed to operate,” he said in a statement.
“Some trades cannot supply the manpower needed during peak periods, and for us that is spring and fall when energy firms do their turnarounds and close for several weeks,” said Joseph Maloney, an international vice-president of the Boilermakers union.
His union trains boilermakers and works closely with “quality contractors” to ensure properly trained staff are available. And when they are short, they use the TFW program.
“We bring in about 400 journeymen in the spring and fall from our pools in the U.S. and Ireland, where they are trained to the same standards as Alberta boilermakers and welders. When they come they are paid the same as Canadians and are treated the same,” he said.
“When properly used, this program is able to assist contractors and unions to get these jobs completed on time and on budget, and safely.”
The Ironworkers union, which saw 65 of its members laid off last week and replaced by Croatian TFWs, still supports the program, says Harry Tostawaryk, business manager of Local 720.
“We assist contractors, we go to trade fairs, and we work with them to ensure workers meet the criteria,” he said.
But the problem with the Pacer-Promec Joint Venture (PPJV) at Imperial’s Kearl oilsands project goes back several months when Tostawaryk said his union “told (PPJV) that the Croatians did not meet the standards, but they brought them anyways.”
The federal government has promised to investigate this incident and Tostawaryk said that will impact other companies.
“The other contractors who are doing the program correctly, the PCLs, KBRs and Horton CBIs, will have a harder time bringing people in here because the government is going to scrutinize more.”
Tostawaryk said none of the ironworkers who were laid off last week have been called back, and the Croatian workers are still on the site.
“Some of the guys want to go back to the (PPJV) project, but others have taken other jobs. I told them that if (PPJV) called we would work with them and get them back, but other contractors have also put in extra calls to pick up these (laid off) ironworkers.”
Meanwhile, Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan said Monday that the actions of PPJV are “a perfect example of how this (TFW) program is being used to drive down wages. And this situation is not unique. This is happening at work sites all over the country because this is how the TFW program is designed to operate,” he said in a statement.
CANADA FX DEBT-C$ firms to 1-week high, helped by producer prices
The Canadian dollar strengthened to its highest level in a week against the greenback on Monday, helped by a bigger than expected rise in Canadian producer prices and as investors consolidated positions after the currency’s recent declines.
The loonie was also given a boost by U.S. data that showed a sharp drop in manufacturing in January, hinting at a slowing economy. That sparked investor speculation that the U.S. Federal Reserve may have to refrain from a further reduction of its stimulus program.
The Canadian dollar has come under pressure in recent months, with selling intensifying in January, as investorsturned increasingly bearish toward it. The U.S. dollar appreciated nearly 5 percent against the loonie in January.
“This is probably a move that had run very quickly and is looking just a bit fatigued as we take a step back and assess the landscape and try to figure out why exactly we moved so far so fast,” said David Tulk, chief Canada macro strategist at TD Securities in Toronto.
The possibility of a fast Fed wind-down of its stimulative asset purchases has typically boosted the greenback against the Canadian dollar and other currencies. But Monday’s weak U.S. manufacturing data made that possibility look more remote and the U.S. dollar took a hit,falling 0.4 percent against a basket of currencies.
“To see the Canadian dollar catch a bit of a break in that environment does make a bit of sense,” Tulk said.
Data at home showed the recent weakness in the Canadian dollar helped producer prices rise by 0.7 percent in December, with higher energy prices also contributing to the gain.Economists had forecast an increase of 0.3 percent. Rawmaterials prices also rose.
The figures were the first release in a busy data calendar this week, which will culminate with the closely watched unemployment report on Friday. Hiring in Canada is expected to have picked up in January after the economy unexpectedly shed jobs the month before.
The Canadian dollar ended the North American session at C$1.1097 to the greenback, or 90.11 U.S. cents, stronger than Friday’s close of C$1.1138, or 89.78 U.S. cents.
Data on Friday showed investors had pared back their shortpositions on the Canadian dollar.
“A lot of people have booked a lot of profits on the Canadian dollar weakness story, something that was quite compelling as a narrative to start the year, but just appreciating how far we’ve come, maybe some of the momentum has scaled back a little bit,” Tulk said.
The Canadian dollar briefly fell through the psychologically important C$1.12 area on Friday before bouncing higher. That the currency was not able to sustain the move past C$1.12 helped the loonie gain some strength on Monday, said Scott Smith, seniormarket analyst at Cambridge Mercantile Group in Calgary.
“The trade has been a little crowded for a while, we needed a little washout and reset,” Smith said. “So it’s along the lines that we expect a little bit of a consolidation here until we see the catalyst for the next move higher” for the U.S. dollar-Canadian dollar pairing.
Canadian government bond prices were higher across the maturity curve, with the two-year up 3.7 Canadian cents to yield 0.931 percent and the benchmark 10-year up 35 Canadian cents to yield 2.297 percent.
The loonie was also given a boost by U.S. data that showed a sharp drop in manufacturing in January, hinting at a slowing economy. That sparked investor speculation that the U.S. Federal Reserve may have to refrain from a further reduction of its stimulus program.
The Canadian dollar has come under pressure in recent months, with selling intensifying in January, as investorsturned increasingly bearish toward it. The U.S. dollar appreciated nearly 5 percent against the loonie in January.
“This is probably a move that had run very quickly and is looking just a bit fatigued as we take a step back and assess the landscape and try to figure out why exactly we moved so far so fast,” said David Tulk, chief Canada macro strategist at TD Securities in Toronto.
The possibility of a fast Fed wind-down of its stimulative asset purchases has typically boosted the greenback against the Canadian dollar and other currencies. But Monday’s weak U.S. manufacturing data made that possibility look more remote and the U.S. dollar took a hit,falling 0.4 percent against a basket of currencies.
“To see the Canadian dollar catch a bit of a break in that environment does make a bit of sense,” Tulk said.
Data at home showed the recent weakness in the Canadian dollar helped producer prices rise by 0.7 percent in December, with higher energy prices also contributing to the gain.Economists had forecast an increase of 0.3 percent. Rawmaterials prices also rose.
The figures were the first release in a busy data calendar this week, which will culminate with the closely watched unemployment report on Friday. Hiring in Canada is expected to have picked up in January after the economy unexpectedly shed jobs the month before.
The Canadian dollar ended the North American session at C$1.1097 to the greenback, or 90.11 U.S. cents, stronger than Friday’s close of C$1.1138, or 89.78 U.S. cents.
Data on Friday showed investors had pared back their shortpositions on the Canadian dollar.
“A lot of people have booked a lot of profits on the Canadian dollar weakness story, something that was quite compelling as a narrative to start the year, but just appreciating how far we’ve come, maybe some of the momentum has scaled back a little bit,” Tulk said.
The Canadian dollar briefly fell through the psychologically important C$1.12 area on Friday before bouncing higher. That the currency was not able to sustain the move past C$1.12 helped the loonie gain some strength on Monday, said Scott Smith, seniormarket analyst at Cambridge Mercantile Group in Calgary.
“The trade has been a little crowded for a while, we needed a little washout and reset,” Smith said. “So it’s along the lines that we expect a little bit of a consolidation here until we see the catalyst for the next move higher” for the U.S. dollar-Canadian dollar pairing.
Canadian government bond prices were higher across the maturity curve, with the two-year up 3.7 Canadian cents to yield 0.931 percent and the benchmark 10-year up 35 Canadian cents to yield 2.297 percent.
4 Tips to Help 40-Somethings Handle Debt
Handling debt is a challenge for those of all ages, and the problems start early in our adult lives. It’s only natural to incur some heavy debts in our 20s and 30s, as we’re dealing with the imbalance between our relatively scarce financial resources and the sizable expenses of getting started with careers and families.
By the time you hit your 40s, you might hope to have moved past that phase. But although many people in their 40s have well-established careers that produce sizable incomes, they also often face growing financial commitments — both to themselves and to family members. That’s a big reason why 40-somethings have the highest levels of debt of any age group, and unlike younger groups, they’ve seen their debt levels increase slightly since 2005, according to figures from the FICO Banking Analytics Blog.
Debt management in your 40s isn’t just about paying down debt. It’s also about making sure you’re using the right kind of debt to handle the most important expenses you face. Also vital — maintaining the ability to repay your debts while simultaneously ramping up savings for your longer-term goals.
To address all those issues, here are four things that 40-somethings should keep in mind in dealing with their debt.
1. Anticipate Big-Ticket Expenses.
Dealing with unanticipated expenses can break the budgets of young adults. But by the time you hit 40, you have plenty of life experience behind you and can predict what sorts of financial demands will come up. In particular, major expenses like putting children through college or replacing a vehicle are fairly easy to foresee. The smarter you can be about planning for them beforehand, the better you’ll be positioned to minimize how much debt you have to take on to pay for those expenses later.
Having an emergency fund with three to six months’ worth of income is out of reach for many young adults, but by your 40s, it becomes more realistic. Having that fund available can keep you from incurring debt and provide a cushion you can tap later for college expenses and other big-ticket items.
2. Get The Right Protection For Your Family.
As 40-somethings hit the peak debt levels of their lifetimes, they’re most vulnerable to unforeseen tragedies like a death or major illness in the family. Between lost income and increased expenses, such events can crush even a well-crafted financial plan.
Having the right insurance policies in place to protect against tragic events can ensure your family’s financial survival. A simple term-life insurance policy usually costs relatively little but can provide enough death benefits to pay off a home mortgage and other debt while potentially leaving additional savings available for future needs.
Disability insurance can replace lost income and cover qualifying expenses if you’re unable to work following an accident or illness. Working with an insurance company to craft the right protection package for you could mean the difference between beating debt and suffering a big financial setback.
3. Put Your Best Debt-Foot Forward.
Young adults tend to take advantage of credit wherever they can get it. But as you get older, your access to better credit should increase, allowing you to skip expensive forms of debt like credit cards and payday loans and instead get low-rate loans that are much easier to pay off. Although low-rate specials on car loans and credit cards can make their interest costs attractive, the most consistently inexpensive financing usually comes from a home mortgage or home equity loan, with government-subsidized student loans also offering reasonable rates for many students. If you have to have debt, look to consolidate it into these favorable areas, then avoid taking out further high-cost debt in the future.
4. Set the Stage For Your Own Future.
As important as debt reduction is, 40-somethings also have to face the inevitability of their own future financial needs. One big reason why it’s so important to get rid of bad debt and focus on concentrating outstanding balances in inexpensive forms of credit is to give yourself the flexibility to save more for retirement. As your salary increases, the potential matching contributions from your employer also rise, and you won’t want to miss out on the opportunity to collect more free money to put toward your retirement savings.
The hallmark of your 40s is that debt stops being a necessary evil and starts becoming more of a potentially useful tool. By focusing on the positive aspects of debt in helping you balance competing financial needs while avoiding the downsides with which you’re already familiar, you can put debt on your side and manage it effectively.
By the time you hit your 40s, you might hope to have moved past that phase. But although many people in their 40s have well-established careers that produce sizable incomes, they also often face growing financial commitments — both to themselves and to family members. That’s a big reason why 40-somethings have the highest levels of debt of any age group, and unlike younger groups, they’ve seen their debt levels increase slightly since 2005, according to figures from the FICO Banking Analytics Blog.
Debt management in your 40s isn’t just about paying down debt. It’s also about making sure you’re using the right kind of debt to handle the most important expenses you face. Also vital — maintaining the ability to repay your debts while simultaneously ramping up savings for your longer-term goals.
To address all those issues, here are four things that 40-somethings should keep in mind in dealing with their debt.
1. Anticipate Big-Ticket Expenses.
Dealing with unanticipated expenses can break the budgets of young adults. But by the time you hit 40, you have plenty of life experience behind you and can predict what sorts of financial demands will come up. In particular, major expenses like putting children through college or replacing a vehicle are fairly easy to foresee. The smarter you can be about planning for them beforehand, the better you’ll be positioned to minimize how much debt you have to take on to pay for those expenses later.
Having an emergency fund with three to six months’ worth of income is out of reach for many young adults, but by your 40s, it becomes more realistic. Having that fund available can keep you from incurring debt and provide a cushion you can tap later for college expenses and other big-ticket items.
2. Get The Right Protection For Your Family.
As 40-somethings hit the peak debt levels of their lifetimes, they’re most vulnerable to unforeseen tragedies like a death or major illness in the family. Between lost income and increased expenses, such events can crush even a well-crafted financial plan.
Having the right insurance policies in place to protect against tragic events can ensure your family’s financial survival. A simple term-life insurance policy usually costs relatively little but can provide enough death benefits to pay off a home mortgage and other debt while potentially leaving additional savings available for future needs.
Disability insurance can replace lost income and cover qualifying expenses if you’re unable to work following an accident or illness. Working with an insurance company to craft the right protection package for you could mean the difference between beating debt and suffering a big financial setback.
3. Put Your Best Debt-Foot Forward.
Young adults tend to take advantage of credit wherever they can get it. But as you get older, your access to better credit should increase, allowing you to skip expensive forms of debt like credit cards and payday loans and instead get low-rate loans that are much easier to pay off. Although low-rate specials on car loans and credit cards can make their interest costs attractive, the most consistently inexpensive financing usually comes from a home mortgage or home equity loan, with government-subsidized student loans also offering reasonable rates for many students. If you have to have debt, look to consolidate it into these favorable areas, then avoid taking out further high-cost debt in the future.
4. Set the Stage For Your Own Future.
As important as debt reduction is, 40-somethings also have to face the inevitability of their own future financial needs. One big reason why it’s so important to get rid of bad debt and focus on concentrating outstanding balances in inexpensive forms of credit is to give yourself the flexibility to save more for retirement. As your salary increases, the potential matching contributions from your employer also rise, and you won’t want to miss out on the opportunity to collect more free money to put toward your retirement savings.
The hallmark of your 40s is that debt stops being a necessary evil and starts becoming more of a potentially useful tool. By focusing on the positive aspects of debt in helping you balance competing financial needs while avoiding the downsides with which you’re already familiar, you can put debt on your side and manage it effectively.
Debt Consolidation In Your Strategies? Turn To The Following Tips
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- A lot of people is likely to make poor decisions whenever they enter into personal debt. You can easily prevent awful fiscal options by studying your alternative ideas and taking into consideration the long-term. After looking at this short article, you should have a well round concept of what debt consolidation consists of.
Consumer Mortgage Tips Canada! How to Pay Your Mortgage Off Faster?
10 Tips for Paying Off Your Home Mortgage Faster
For most the Canadian homeowners, paying off their mortgage as early as possible has a top priority. Paying down extra principal in the early years of your mortgage loan by whatever means possible can reduce the life of your mortgage, and dramatically lower the interest you’ll pay throughout your mortgage loan life.
Any additional payment you make on your mortgage (also known as a pre-payment) will save you a lot of money in interest. The interest portion of your payment is determined by the outstanding balance of your mortgage (principal and interest). As the outstanding balance diminishes, less of your payment goes towards interest and more comes off the balance. Here are a few home mortgage tips and ways on how to pay off sooner while minimize your mortgage costs:
1.Increasing the amount of your payments annually to the maximum you can afford
The upside is that most lenders will allow you to reduce it again to the previous level if it turns out to be too great a burden or your circumstances change.
2.Prepayments provide you great return over your investmentIf you pay an average 6.5% mortgage interest rate towards your mortgage payment, for each $1,000 reduction of your mortgage principal results in $65 savings after tax cash annually.
For most the Canadian homeowners, paying off their mortgage as early as possible has a top priority. Paying down extra principal in the early years of your mortgage loan by whatever means possible can reduce the life of your mortgage, and dramatically lower the interest you’ll pay throughout your mortgage loan life.
Any additional payment you make on your mortgage (also known as a pre-payment) will save you a lot of money in interest. The interest portion of your payment is determined by the outstanding balance of your mortgage (principal and interest). As the outstanding balance diminishes, less of your payment goes towards interest and more comes off the balance. Here are a few home mortgage tips and ways on how to pay off sooner while minimize your mortgage costs:
1.Increasing the amount of your payments annually to the maximum you can afford
The upside is that most lenders will allow you to reduce it again to the previous level if it turns out to be too great a burden or your circumstances change.
2.Prepayments provide you great return over your investmentIf you pay an average 6.5% mortgage interest rate towards your mortgage payment, for each $1,000 reduction of your mortgage principal results in $65 savings after tax cash annually.
3.Utilize your RRSP driven tax rebate as a mortgage prepayment methodEven if you can only prepay annually, make sure tax refunds are set aside for paying down your mortgage. Many Canadians borrow (at prime) to buy an RRSP to ensure the maximum rebate. When applied to the mortgage principal, this refund is a “gift that keeps on giving”. Combining the refund with the tax-free interest earned on the RRSP over the subsequent years will quickly outpace the short-term interest costs of the RRSP loan.
4.Accelerated bi-weekly payment optionIncrease the frequency of your mortgage payments; make accelerated bi-weekly payments to get a free principal reduction equivalent to one full mortgage payment every year.
5.Make use of double-up privileges wherever possibleTell yourself that you will “skip-a-payment” whenever necessary.. then skip only when you absolutely must.
6.Round your mortgage payments upBy adding even a nominal amount of dollar value, say $10 per payment, the amount of interest you are saving will be unbelievable, and the extra money is relatively painless to part with.
7.Making lump-sum payments whenever possibleBy decreasing the principal of the mortgage, your payments will not be allocated as much to interest, thereby accelerating the end of your mortgage.
8.Keeping the same payments when mortgage rates have fallen downIf the payment amount has not been a problem so far, then keep it the same, thereby paying down the principal faster.
9.Raise the mortgage payments in line with increased income on an after-tax basisIf your income increases, don’t keep your mortgage payments the same. Although the disposable income may be fun to spend on unnecessary luxuries in the short-term, the long-term benefits of being mortgage free faster a far outweighs the short-term sacrifice.
10.Paying extra on your payment datesMost lenders will allow you to make additional payments on your mortgage, sometimes referred to as “double-up” payments. These extra amounts are applied to the principal only and reduce your mortgage balance, which helps you pay your mortgage off faster.
The faster you reduce the outstanding balance on your mortgage, the more you will save in interest charges. Since pre-payment policies vary between institutions to institutions and types of mortgages, you should consult your mortgage agreement for complete knowledge about the availability of the pre-payment options for you. These are some of the consumer mortgage tips specifically written for theCanadian home mortgage market but could be equally workable for any other country in general as well.
4.Accelerated bi-weekly payment optionIncrease the frequency of your mortgage payments; make accelerated bi-weekly payments to get a free principal reduction equivalent to one full mortgage payment every year.
5.Make use of double-up privileges wherever possibleTell yourself that you will “skip-a-payment” whenever necessary.. then skip only when you absolutely must.
6.Round your mortgage payments upBy adding even a nominal amount of dollar value, say $10 per payment, the amount of interest you are saving will be unbelievable, and the extra money is relatively painless to part with.
7.Making lump-sum payments whenever possibleBy decreasing the principal of the mortgage, your payments will not be allocated as much to interest, thereby accelerating the end of your mortgage.
8.Keeping the same payments when mortgage rates have fallen downIf the payment amount has not been a problem so far, then keep it the same, thereby paying down the principal faster.
9.Raise the mortgage payments in line with increased income on an after-tax basisIf your income increases, don’t keep your mortgage payments the same. Although the disposable income may be fun to spend on unnecessary luxuries in the short-term, the long-term benefits of being mortgage free faster a far outweighs the short-term sacrifice.
10.Paying extra on your payment datesMost lenders will allow you to make additional payments on your mortgage, sometimes referred to as “double-up” payments. These extra amounts are applied to the principal only and reduce your mortgage balance, which helps you pay your mortgage off faster.
The faster you reduce the outstanding balance on your mortgage, the more you will save in interest charges. Since pre-payment policies vary between institutions to institutions and types of mortgages, you should consult your mortgage agreement for complete knowledge about the availability of the pre-payment options for you. These are some of the consumer mortgage tips specifically written for theCanadian home mortgage market but could be equally workable for any other country in general as well.
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