Wow thanks for all the responses, I believe benno79 summed it up correctly in the following,
benno79 wrote:The repayments are calculated on the 'original loan balance', for the life of the IO loan (usually 5 years or so).So in essence any “extra” repayments are reducing the outstanding balance of the mortgage and are locked up so to speak.
Whilst this is my ultimate goal I was trying to see if I could reduce the amount I had to pay to the bank and keep hammering the extra into the offset so the funds would not be locked up.Once the interest only period has passed, I’ll again put it back on IO and assume this will reduce the repayments as the loan balance at that time will be significantly lower.
I appreciate your assistance and responses, A great forum for information.
Thank you.
Are IO loans with offset accounts typically static with their payments or do some of them adjust each month to reflect the balance in the offset account.
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Most will vary each month depending on how much is in the offset account. You are being charged only interest and this will reduce with money in the offset. One exception is st g which, in one of their accounts, takes the savings off the principle.
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Terryw wrote:One exception is st g which, in one of their accounts, takes the savings off the principle.I believe this is the offset account I have.
Out of interest (no pun intended) which obtains the better benefit, reducing the principle, or reducing the interest (hence IO payments will be lower so less money locked away)obviously reducing the principle is best.
Apart from the obvious (being idle money) is there an issue if your offset exceeds your loan? Or does a bank not allow you to deposit anything greater then the loan balance.
Thanks again.
if the amount in the offset exceeds the loan you will not, usually, be getting paid interest, so it would be better to put the excess funds somewhere else to get a return on them
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STG have the old system that does not calculate your interest daily, rather it is a static figure that is calculated at the beggining of the year. This is not good if you have a large amount of money in an offset account.
Terryw wrote:if the amount in the offset exceeds the loan you will not, usually, be getting paid interest, so it would be better to put the excess funds somewhere else to get a return on themJust as I thought, Thank you Terryw
number 8 wrote:STG have the old system that does not calculate your interest daily, rather it is a static figure that is calculated at the beginning of the year. This is not good if you have a large amount of money in an offset account.So if this is correct they will only recalculate the figure at the start of a new year?
this is not ideal as I have almost a 1:1 ratio with my offset.
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