Where your repayment really goes
Interest is charged on the whole outstanding balance, every month. The balance is largest at the start, so the lender collects most of its return in the early years. And when rates move, the repayment moves with them, so the collection never stops.
See it for your own loan
Move the sliders to your numbers. Each bar is one year of repayments: the red portion goes to the lender as interest, the teal portion reduces what you owe. Notice which colour dominates the early years.
A rate rise never stretches the bank's schedule
The bank recalculates your repayment so the loan still finishes on the original date and the interest keeps flowing. Set a new rate and see what the bank sends you in the letter.
A repayment you can always manage is a debt you never escape
The schedule is designed to pay the lender first. The repayment is designed to be affordable, and that is the trap. Affordable means you can sustain it for thirty years without breaking, which is exactly what the bank needs you to do.
For those thirty years, the money that could be building your wealth is paying for the past instead. You stay serviceable, the interest keeps flowing, and the most profitable customer the bank has is the one who pays exactly what is asked, exactly on time, for the full term.
The way out is not a better rate. It is a shorter loan. Every year you cut from the term is interest the bank planned to collect that stays in your hands. FastPay is the strategy for doing exactly that: paying your mortgage down faster on your terms, not the bank's schedule, with the same income and lifestyle you have now.
Pay the mortgage on your terms, not the bank's schedule.
A free FastPay assessment shows how many years you can take back, on the income and lifestyle you have now.
Your mortgage charges interest every single day
See what one day of interest costs you, and why the daily charge changes how you should pay.
If this works, why has your bank never mentioned it?
The honest answer to the most common objection, including why it does not cost you more and who it is not for.
Results are indicative only and should be used as a guide. They are neither a quote nor a pre-qualification. Calculations assume a principal and interest loan with monthly repayments and a single rate change in the scenario shown.