Terrible video overall. Why you'd remotely be championing US...

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    Terrible video overall. Why you'd remotely be championing US banks as being better is just laughable. If you look at the US mortgage rate history you're regularly paying a premium for the 30 year fixed rate: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US.

    Other than in the recent period of rate increases it's not really resulted in a radically different rate being paid by a consumer vs a headline rate here and often worse off. Also the claim you can simply refinance to a better rate when they decrease in the US is utter rubbish. There is significant costs to refinancing in the US meaning you're going to wear higher rates for a period of time until they stablise/bottom out as you won't want to refinance more than once in the cycle as it negates a lot of the savings. In the link below it puts refinancing costs on a $200k loan at up to $10k. If you can't cover those costs there are options to roll it onto your principle which you'll then pay interest on over the next 30 years lol.

    https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/how-much-it-costs-to-refinance/

    The US also don't have the concept of offset accounts which is a great way of reducing your total interest bill if you can make additional repayments as well.
 
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