Borrowers who have availed of a payment break on their home loan during the Covid-19 crisis can expect to pay up to €4,500 in additional costs on their mortgages, an Oireachtas committee has been told.
This emerges from correspondence this month from four of the main retail banks – AIB, Bank of Ireland, Permanent TSB and Ulster Bank – to the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response.
In a letter dated July 21st, Ulster Bank told the committee that a borrower with a balance of €250,000, an interest rate of 2.5 per cent and 30 years left on their mortgage would pay an additional €4,468 by extending the term of their loan by the maximum six months allowed. This reduces to € 2,502 if the borrower pays off the balance over the normal term of the loan.
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Ulster Bank has agreed 12,000 mortgage payment breaks since March. “A payment break allows for monthly repayments of capital and interest to be temporarily deferred/suspended for an agreed period of time (initially up to three months) without any negative impact on the borrower’s credit rating,” Ulster Bank chief executive Jane Howard said.
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