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What Interest Rates Mean for Your Mortgage
As a prospective homebuyer in The Bahamas, understanding how interest rates influence your purchasing power is crucial. Interest rates play a significant role in determining the cost of borrowing money for a mortgage. 

Here's a straightforward breakdown of how they can affect your ability to buy a home:

 

1. Mortgage Affordability

Interest rates directly impact your monthly mortgage payments. When rates are low, the cost of borrowing decreases, making homes more affordable. For example, a lower interest rate on a $300,000 mortgage can result in significantly lower monthly payments compared to a higher rate.

 

2. Purchasing Capacity

Higher interest rates mean higher monthly payments for the same loan amount. This can reduce your…

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Tips to Pay Down Your Mortgage – and Fast! Mortgages can come in handy when you’re desperate for funds to get hold of that dream property, but the overwhelming payment period and debt can turn loans into a nightmare. These tips can quicken the payment process and help you clear your conscience and “death pledge”, so you can go back to those sweet dreams.

  1. Refinance, refinance, refinance! Rather than taking out a30 year loan, try asking your financial institution for a 15 or20 year mortgage instead.Theseshorter term loans are amortized quicker and add your payments to principal reduction. If you don’t want or are unable to change the time frame for your mortgage payments, try refinancing with a lower interest rate during the same period. This…

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