{"id":41717,"date":"2013-02-12T22:07:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=41717"},"modified":"2013-02-12T22:07:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:07:43","slug":"borrowers-failing-to-shop-around-for-best-mortgage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/borrowers-failing-to-shop-around-for-best-mortgage\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrowers failing to shop around for best mortgage\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home owners may not be getting the best mortgage deal, with more than half simply going straight to their bank.<\/p>\n

When asked who their current mortgage was with, 52% said it was through the bank they had been with before getting a mortgage.<\/p>\n

Of those, 87% said they didn\u2019t look elsewhere for other rates or deals. When asked why they had gone straight to their bank for their mortgage, 61% said it was \u2018easy\u2019 to do.<\/p>\n

Just 23% said their mortgage was through a bank that they did not otherwise bank with, while 14% had gone to a building society.<\/p>\n

The majority (59%) claimed to have \u2018no idea\u2019 if they were getting the best rate for the mortgage, compared with 34% who felt they had \u2018thoroughly researched\u2019 different options in order to get the best rate possible.<\/p>\n

When asked if they felt they understood mortgages fully, 42% admitted that they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Use the software that brokers use for free. www.mortgageoptionsni.co.uk<\/a>
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Home owners may not be getting the best mortgage deal, with more than half simply going straight to their bank. When asked who their current mortgage was with, 52% said it was through the bank they had been with before getting a mortgage. Of those, 87% said they didn\u2019t look elsewhere for other rates or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11631],"tags":[5687,4050,11632,5954,11688],"class_list":["post-41717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mortgages","tag-best","tag-ireland","tag-mortgage","tag-northern","tag-options"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41718,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41717\/revisions\/41718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}