Overview
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Understanding mortgages is a free, short course produced in collaboration with MoneySavingExpert.com.
Syllabus
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- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Getting a mortgage: how much can I borrow?
- 1 Getting a mortgage: how much can I borrow?
- 1.1 The property in question and the importance of ‘loan-to-value’
- 1.2 Repayment or interest-only
- 1.3 Fixed-rate or variable rate?
- 2 Half-time quiz
- 2 Half-time quiz
- 3 Mortgage choices: offset, flexible, discounted/low start and portable mortgages?
- 3 Mortgage choices: offset, flexible, discounted/low start and portable mortgages?
- 4 Managing your mortgage: overpaying
- 4 Managing your mortgage: overpaying
- 4.1 Moving to another deal
- 4.2 Ditching a fixed-rate mortgage
- 5 The other costs of buying a property
- 5 The other costs of buying a property
- 6 Mortgages: understanding and managing the risks
- 6 Mortgages: understanding and managing the risks
- 7 End-of-course quiz
- 7 End-of-course quiz
- 8 End of course round-up
- 8 End of course round-up
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
