Mortgage Broker Banbury

If you opt to pay off insurance premiums using monthly instalments then a hard search is carried out which negatively affects your credit score.

So if you can, pay off your insurance in one payment; it won't affect your credit score negatively and will work out cheaper in the longer term.

A type of variable rate mortgage, these are based on a fixed percentage discount from a lender's standard variable rate (SVR), which is normally itself linked to the Bank of England's prevailing lending rate.

These are often subject to a fixed term, perhaps 1 or 2 years and if the term is fixed, you can only leave if you pay a – normally expensive – repayment charge. Like other variable rate mortgages, you cannot guarantee that your monthly repayment figure won't change – and this can be for the worse – meaning that you should always have enough finance in reserve for the eventuality.