Hi all
We have an *offset* mortgage package from Abbey that tracks the BoE base rate + 0.49% for the life of the mortgage. It's a 100K mortgage over 25 years.
We got it last December and have currently managed to get around 37K into the "savings pot" that goes along with it. Abbey's online details for it, currently show it as having: total repayments: 81.7K total interest: 19.8K loan term: 11 yrs, 9 mths
(These numbers obviously jump up and down depending on much money moves into or out of the savings pot).
I've yet to work out whether this means the mortgage *will* be paid off after just 11 years (assuming no change to the savings pot), or that it
*could* be paid off after 11 years if we used those savings to pay off capital.
However, my main question/worry at the moment is this...assuming no other changes; at the end of the mortgage term (be it 11 years or 25 years), will we still have the 37K in the savings pot or will we be left with a) no mortgage, but b) no savings?
Thanks for any advice.