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Meet Steve and Jane, mortgage customers in their early sixties looking to re-mortgage.

Product: 50+

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    Careers

    Retired & Self employed IT developer

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    Purpose

    Remortgage from interest only to repayment

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    Term

    19 years

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    LTV

    70%

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    Loan and property value

    Loan of £182,000. Property value of £260,000

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    Repayment Type

    Repayment

Jane is a 60-year-old retired police officer, while Steve is a 61-year-old self-employed IT developer and company director.

The pair took out an interest only mortgage in 2003 with a 20-year-term. Their current lender wrote to them highlighting their mortgage term would be ending in 12 months and they’d need to repay the mortgage.

After contacting their existing lender to discuss their options, they found themselves unable to do what they’d planned.

Jane and Steve had hoped to convert the mortgage to a repayment basis and increase their borrowing over 19 years, but unfortunately their existing lender wouldn’t consider a term or income to age 80. A shorter term would result in the monthly payments being too high meaning they wouldn’t meet the lender’s affordability requirements.

They’ve lived in the home for many years and took interest only with an endowment policy in 2003. During 2009 Steve’s business was struggling and with a young family they decided to cash in their endowment policy to support their financial position. The low interest only payments suited them while they had a young family and just carried on with the payments without really thinking about needing to repay the mortgage at the end of the term. It was a big shock to them when they received the letter from their lender and extremely stressful.

The property value is £260,000 and the current mortgage in £100,000 interest only. With both their children now grown up and with two grandchildren and another on the way, they remortgaged and raised capital for significant home improvements and a larger car.

With Hodge they can remortgage and raise capital on a repayment basis. Hodge will consider self-employed for affordability up to age 80. This worked as Steve is a director with a 50% share, takes a more administrative role in the business and has no intention of retiring.

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