{"id":135082,"date":"2023-03-06T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/should-i-use-a-75000-inheritance-to-pay-off-the-mortgage\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:16:41","slug":"should-i-use-a-75000-inheritance-to-pay-off-the-mortgage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/should-i-use-a-75000-inheritance-to-pay-off-the-mortgage\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I use a \u00a375,000 inheritance to pay off the mortgage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nI am wondering whether to keep some of the money in savings to help cover extra costs if we moveQ I\u2019m due to inherit about \u00a375,000 and I\u2019d like some advice on what best to do with it. We have about \u00a385,000 left on our mortgage. We have been considering moving house for the past couple of years but the houses we have been looking at are a bit of a jump from where we are now.Our current house would sell for between \u00a3250,000 and \u00a3270,000 but the ones we are looking at in the area we want to be in are on the market for about \u00a3400,000. We can overpay on our fixed-rate mortgage \u2013 which is due to come to an end in November 2025 \u2013 and have no restrictions to how much we can pay off. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2023\/mar\/06\/should-i-use-inheritance-pay-off-mortgage-savings-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Should I use a \u00a375,000 inheritance to pay off the mortgage?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; I am wondering whether to keep some of the money in savings to help cover&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-z8K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134307,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/should-i-buy-a-property-outright-or-take-on-a-mortgage-and-invest-my-money\/","url_meta":{"origin":135082,"position":0},"title":"Should I buy a property outright or take on a mortgage and invest my money?","date":"January 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r My \u00a3200,000 offer has been accepted, I have \u00a3135,000 from sale of my flat and \u00a375,000 in savingsQ I have had my offer of \u00a3200,000 accepted on a property. 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