What Becomes Of My Mortgage When I Sell My House?
You've decided to make the plunge and sell your home. More than a few people have innocently asked me, "What happens to my mortgage when I sell my home?"
What Happens to My Mortgage When I sell My Home
If you have a house, then you are carrying a mortgage on it. A mortgage is a loan for a percentage of the value of your home, which you pay to the seller of the home when you bought it. It would depend on the type of mortgage you have, but the amount due on the loan should decrease during the time you lived in the home and made monthly payments.
If you sell your home, the question would be what would happen to the then due balance on the mortgage? The simple answer is the financial institution is going to be paid out of the proceeds of the sale before you see anything. So you have to calculate the loan repayment amount. If you have a home worth $300,000 and owe $280,000 on the mortgage, you are going to realize little or no profit after the costs associated with the sale and probably shouldn't sell it.
If you have plenty of equity built up in the home, your mortgage can still end up costing you more than you originally expected. Nowadays, many mortgages come with restrictive penalties. These penalties would cause you to refrain from selling your home for a period of time while the bank recovers a certain amount of interest. Simply put, the bank wants a profit from the loan.
When it comes to these restrictive penalties, lending institutions get pretty creative. Many will include a penalty if you sell or refinance the property within the first two years of the loan period. The penalty can be an equivalent of three months of payment, a percentage of the loan, etc. Read your mortgage loan documents carefully.
Just keep in mind that your mortgage will be paid off as part of the sales process. The type of loan you get will dictate the amount.
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