Interest only mortgage over payments

Interest only mortgage over payments

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rob_benton

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87 posts

198 months

Monday 27th February 2017
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Hi

I have a Part interest only and repayment mortgage.

I am making overpayments to the interest only side to reduce the final balance.


E.g.

The interest only is £102k. Making £200 over payments a month for 8 years at 2.89%.


Obviously the overpayments will reduce the payments but want happens to the interest charges ?
I presume the charges will go down each month as the balance gets reduced. I will continue making the same mortgage payments but I don't understand how the interest charges work.

I'm sure I'm being thick and would appreciate any advice. I've spoken to the mortgage company but they didn't make sense.

Thanks

rob_benton

Original Poster:

87 posts

198 months

Monday 27th February 2017
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PhantomPH said:
Doofus said:
How can you overpay an interest-only mortgage?
Is it not that the OP is not 'overpaying' the interest, but in actual fact decreasing the capital that makes up the interest only calculation? So in theory, the interest should be recalculated at the lower capital amount and the ongoing interest payments be adjusted accordingly?
That's correct.