Regardless of whether you are investing in your first residence or are moving from your current one, investing in a home is one of life’s most important financial and personal investments and when applying for a mortgage you can easily be baffled by all the different options lenders offer you.

Quite simply a mortgage is a loan you get, from a lender, to purchase a new home. Repayment of this loan is paid back month-to-month for the period of the loan, with interest, and if you don’t manage to meet the monthly repayment demands then the lender has got the right to foreclose and sell your home to pay off the monies that you owe.

Therefore selecting the right mortgage is crucial. To begin with you should use a mortgage calculator to see how much you can manage to pay. These are readily available online and give you a good idea of how much, your monthly repayments will be.

There are a number of mortgages available and your personal preference of mortgage will depend on what suits you. Listed here are just a number of of the mortgage choices available to you.

New borrowers are most likely to be proposed a ‘Fixed Rate’ mortgage as are borrowers who are most likely to re-mortgage. Fixed for a term of 2, three or 5 years this type of mortgage is popular as the borrower knows precisely how much the monthly repayments will be for a set term. The only downfall with this type of mortgage is that if the interest rates do fall substantially then they will not be able to take advantage of these as they are on a fixed rate.

Yet another popular option is the ‘Tracker Rate’ mortgage. The ‘Tracker Mortgage’ tracks the banks base rate for a fixed time, from two to ten years. The interest rate will be set to a fixed percentage above the banks base rate for a given amount of time.

A ‘Discounted Rate’ mortgage provides a discount off the lenders standard variable rate mortgage for a fixed time, for example two years. The borrower will pay close to one percent less than the standard lenders rate so will benefit in any interest rate cuts.

These are just some of the options available to you and it is vital that you understand fully all the terms to the mortgage. It’s standard with all mortgages that early repayment charges will apply as will part repayment charges. This also applies of you make a decision to switch lenders or indeed switch to another product by the same lender.

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