One question that I, as a mortgage broker, am always asked is “How do I pay less for my mortgage?”. It is not that they are looking to avoid paying, say, the broker fee, but they are looking at the overall cost of the mortgage over the full term of the repayments.
When going for your first mortgage, or taking a remortgage, there are a number of costs that must be paid and these ar ethe areas where you can make your savings. In general, there are more options with a remortgage than a new mortgage, but you need to ask some basic questions in order to drive your broker towards the best deal for you.
Every mortgage requires a valuation and the cost of this increases as per the price of the property. In many cases, lenders are happy to pay all, or up to certain amount, of this valuation. This might require you to pay the fee up front, but the amount will be refunded to you on completion.
Similarly, the services of a solicitor will be required and lenders will use certain practices for their legalwork and will pay this cost for you on most remortgages. This solicitor will only cover the basic conveyancing and any extra work they do on your behlaf will be directly charged to you on completion.
The total amount you pay over the term of the mortgage comprises two parts; the arrangement fee and the monthly payment. When your broker is looking for deals for you, he will advise you based on the information that you give him when you first meet and this will be used as the basis of his research. If you instruct him to find you the cheapest monthly payment then that is what he will do, but he should then indicate that there may be a cheaper overall product available taking into account both of the parts shown above.
The arrangement fee can be added onto the loan and will therefore increase the monthly payment by a small amount. This might be acceptable to some mortgagees although others like to pay the arrangement fee when they complete on the mortgage deal.
Some mortgage lenders will have two or more options of what looks like the same deal, but with different interest rates and arrangement fees. In my experience, if you do a calculation of the total cost of these deals across the period over which they are taken, the total cost is usually the same to within a few pounds. All they are offering is additional options to the mortgagee so they can choose a lower rate/higher arrangement fee versus higher rate/lower arrangement fee.
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