However, closed mortgages have strict annual prepayment limits. Instead of having to wait several months to make extra payments, you can make a lump-sum prepayment today. This can be helpful if you have a large amount of money that you would like to use to prepay your mortgage that might be over 100% of your regular mortgage payment amount. This option allows you to make an additional one-time payment on top of your regular payments. In addition to increasing your regular payments and increasing your payment frequency, you may also be able to make lump-sum payments which can help reduce your principal balance more quickly. In other words, the benefit of a biweekly payment is that the payments are made more frequently, which can slightly reduce interest paid due to compounding, but there aren’t any extra amounts being paid to help pay off your mortgage faster. This makes the total payment amount the same as a monthly mortgage payment. However, the payment amount is calculated as the total monthly mortgage payment for the year, divided by 26. With a regular biweekly payment, it's also paid 26 times per year. This extra payment allows for your mortgage to be paid down faster, saving you interest. This results in you paying for the equivalent of 13 months of monthly mortgage payments every year. In other words, you’ll be paying every two weeks, at an amount that is slightly higher than what a normal bi-weekly payment would be. With an accelerated mortgage payment, you make a payment more frequently than the traditional monthly payment, but your payment is still based on the regular monthly amount.įor example, the payment amount for accelerated bi-weekly would be what the monthly payment amount would be, divided by 2, and paid 26 times each year. In Canada, the two main accelerated mortgage payment frequencies are accelerated bi-weekly and accelerated weekly. This means that increasing it will permanently affect your future payments, and it might not be possible to decrease it in the future. Some lenders might only allow you to increase your regular mortgage payment amount. Instead, it will still be $1,500, unless you decide to make another extra payment. For example, if you double up your RBC mortgage payment from $1,500 to $3,000, you’re not required to make a $3,000 mortgage payment the next month.

In most cases, the “increase your mortgage” feature does not affect your original mortgage payment amount. Going over this limit will cause mortgage penalties to apply. You can, however, make a one-time prepayment by using your annual 10% prepayment allowance. You can’t make an extra mortgage payment of over $1,500 in a given month, even if you didn’t make an extra payment the previous month. In other words, if your monthly mortgage payment is $1,500 with RBC, then you can make an extra payment of between $100 to $1,500 every month. You can also 'Double Up' your regular mortgage payment, which allows you to prepay between $100 up to your regular mortgage payment amount, with this amount going directly against your mortgage's principal balance. For example, RBC allows you to make extra payments, as a mortgage prepayment, equal to 10% of your original mortgage principal amount every year.

Not all lenders allow you to make extra mortgage payments, and they may also limit the amount of extra payments that you can make each year.

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