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Meet Ed and Daisy, mortgage customers in their 60s looking fir a RIO mortgage with no end date.

Product: RIO

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    Careers

    Property investors/ landlords

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    Purpose

    Remortgage with no end date/term

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    Term

    None - mortgage runs for their lifetime

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    LTV

    75%

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    Loan and property value

    Loan of £300,000. Property value of £400,000

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    Repayment Type

    Interest only

Ed and Daisy’s current interest only mortgage was due to mature, their lender had asked them to repay in full. Initially they had planned to sell up, using some of the money from the sale to repay their existing mortgage, but even though their family home had plenty of equity to downsize, they were not ready.

They needed enough space to welcome their children back home to stay and they still felt the house was manageable for them, most importantly it felt like home. They wanted to keep paying a mortgage but avoid being tied to a repayment date, even though they were not ready to sell, they didn’t know if or when they might be.

Ed and Daisy own a number of BTL properties which generate a healthy rental yield, this is part of how they planned to maintain their income into retirement. They wanted to continue paying interest only to keep payments as low as possible, while maintaining the equity in their property.

The RIO is subject to a regulatory requirement to apply a calculation designed to make sure the mortgage is affordable for just one borrower on death, known as death stress. Both Ed and Daisy had £80,000 in life cover, as well as substantial rental income. If one of them were to pass away, they could use these funds to reduce the mortgage debt, something our experienced underwriters take into account when considering applications.

Given our flexibility, we offer higher loan to income ratios than many lenders, so for clients like Ed and Daisy looking to replace their current mortgage on a like for like basis with the opportunity to fix payments, they chose us, a forward thinking lender who could accommodate their wants and needs.

Ed and Daisy were also impressed by the option to overpay 10% yearly, added to that, the Early Repayment Promise which allows them to pay off the loan in full without incurring early repayment charges if they chose to sell made for an attractive package.

Our flexible approach to underwriting complimented Ed and Daisy’s intelligent planning for their later life and we were able to offer a RIO Mortgage, which with no fixed end date enabled Ed and Daisy to stay in their family home until they are ready to downsize, and with no specified end date it also means they don’t need to commit to another fixed maturity date.

The combination of no end date for their RIO along with the ability to downsize at any time with no early repayment charges really put Ed & Daisy in control of their future, bringing them much needed piece of mind and most importantly allowing them to continue to live in their much loved family home.

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