Archive for June, 2007

Opportunity Cost of Saving Money

Monday, June 25th, 2007

For a festival of frugality one would expect to find numerous ways for people to save money. Saving money can actually become an obsessive art. If we are not careful we can spend all our time looking for ways to save the odd dollar and cent, and actually lose track ...

How to Pay off your Mortgage Early

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Paying off your mortgage can help save you $1000s of compound interest payments. To pay off your mortgage early there are various things that we can do. 1. Be Determined Make a determined effort to put money aside for paying off your mortgage early. It could be instead of paying into a savings ...

Reasons for Low inflation in the UK.

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Low inflation has important implications for interest rates and hence mortgage payments. Low inflation enables the MPC to keep interest rates low. Despite recent rises in UK interest rates, long term interest rates are much lower than in the early 1990s when interest rates reached 15%. It is also the ...

Reasons for Remortgaging

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Remortgaging is an opportunity to both save money and, if necessary, raise capital against the value of your house. Remortgaging for Equity withdrawal. If you bought a house with a £130,000 mortgage and the value increased from £150,000 to £210,000, the bank is likely to agree to lend a bigger mortgage. Assuming your ...