50 Year Mortgage Considered in UK

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50 year mortgage five zero 50 year mortgage considered in the UK. Seana I’ve been a big proponent of finding a way to bring down the cost of home ownership and doing it in a logical way. This is one of the things that I talked about a long time ago as interest rates were going up and as home prices are going up. So what do you think the UK said now? Well, it was proposed and then quickly they did say no, but they thought about it. So let’s talk about why it would potentially be a thing. Yeah, it’s too long. But you know, if you think about now 30 year mortgage, it used to be just unfathomable that you would pay off a 30 year mortgage ever. Right. And now you’re seeing people pay off their 30 year mortgages. Well, that’s just because we’re old. I don’t know if you think about that. All right. So let’s let’s talk our way through it. Okay. The traditional 30 year mortgage has 360 equal payments that you’d pay off over time. Now, what is the average time that a person stays in their home right now? I don’t know. Well, it’s really 3 to 5 years. Yeah. And then how often do they refinance it? Very often. So let’s consider this. Imagine that if you have any homeowners that are going to be buying a brand new home or whatever the their next home is, and they buy it now through the next several years. What we expect is that interest rates are going to be higher than they normally would be. And I would bet I would go ahead and say that they would be able to get a better mortgage rate in 2 to 3 years in the future from when they buy it. So what that means is you’re going to be refinancing it. So they’re going to refinance. They’re like scheduling a refinance because at some point within the 30 years. And I would beg to differ or I would say that if you buy it in the next couple of years, interest rates are on this trajectory going up. And then after they go up, they go down. So then when they go down in interest rates are lower, people refinance. So right now, it seems like anyone who’s buying a house is scheduling a refinance of their home in a couple of years. So if you do that, why are you trying to accomplish to pay it off in 30 years? Because all you’re doing is having an arbitrarily higher payment amount that you need to pay to the bank. Right. So if it was a 50 year mortgage, it wouldn’t substantially matter because what you do in the beginning is you pay pretty much all interest. Right? So why not just lower the interest that you’re paying to them? Because you say, I’m going to pay it off in 50 years instead of 30 years knowing that you’re going to be refinancing it in two years. I mean, it just helps a consumer. It really does. How does that help the lender? How does it help the lender? Well, I’m not really concerned about helping the lender, but what it does is it allows more people to get approved, to have a lower monthly payment and cost of home ownership on a monthly basis. No. Because you qualify that you qualify people based on. But then if you do, say, pay it off early, there’s probably going to be no prepayment penalties. There’s nothing like that anymore. So I just think the 50 year mortgage helps bring down the monthly cost of it. And if you really look at it, homes aren’t going anywhere. Right. I don’t know why here in the US we try to pay it off so quickly. Because people don’t like to have debt. But imagine to have debt. Sure. I totally understand that. Right. But a house is supposed to be here for a long period of time, you know? I mean. That’s the other thing are is the quality of the homes such that, you know, I don’t know, definitely 50 years that your home is still. Yeah, your home is an appreciating asset, meaning it goes up in value over time. So it’s a good asset. There’s no reason that we shouldn’t lengthen the amount of time that you can finance it over. If you consider think about this one in general, you have a depreciating asset in a car, so a car is going to go down. What is the real use --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realestatenewstv/message