How to make the mortgage market work for you
22 Feb 2012
Discount mortgages allow you to get a discount off the standard variable rate or tracker rate for a set period. If, for example, you the standard variable rate pays 5% and the discount is 2%, you would pay 3%. Most deals last for two or three years, although it is possible to get longer ones.
As a general rule, the bigger the discount you're given, the shorter the length of the mortgage deal.
If you choose a discount mortgage, whenever your lender's standard variable rate rises or falls, your repayments will follow those movements – minus the discount off the rate you're getting.
You can compare discount mortgage deals in our tables below.
