Musketier
2022-05-25 13:45:21
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We have a 1.45% fixed interest rate for 30 years. The local bank with the red S is currently paying 1.5% on 10-year savings bonds. Our stocks and funds have yielded a significantly higher return than 1.45% since we have had them. I’m already looking forward to the Credit Agricole dividend, which is coming next week. The dividend yield here is just under 10%.
Why should I put a cent into special repayments??
You do realize that you are comparing apples and oranges (pre-tax/post-tax and risk classes) and how the dividend affects the price performance, right?
But of course, it always depends on the loan interest rate, the expected returns from the portfolio, and your own need for security.
I always ask myself with such things whether I would fully mortgage a paid-off property to buy stocks? Maybe I could handle a 20% or 30% mortgage, possibly even 50%, if the income would allow me to cover the payments.
But never fully mortgage it, no way. If you are convinced that the stocks will definitely beat the loan interest rate, economically speaking, you should fully mortgage it and repay as little as possible. Actually, that wouldn’t be a problem either since you have double value backing the loan from property value + stock value. Still, very few would do that, and I would be too scared to do it that way.
Since my remaining debt is currently less than a quarter of the original loan amount and about 15% of the current property value, I would have to stop making special repayments immediately. On the other hand, it also feels great knowing that I will be completely debt-free in 3 years.
With regard to the original situation of the OP, he would probably be quite far from your 1.45% over 30 years and much closer to my 2.9% from 2013.