118. Should I overpay my mortgage?

Women & Money Cafe

We discuss the age-old dilemma of whether to overpay your mortgage or not.
- Debt management: Understanding the importance of addressing other debts before focusing on your mortgage.
- Establishing an emergency fund: The significance of having a financial cushion for unexpected expenses.
- Mortgage provider policies: Exploring the limitations and potential penalties for overpaying your mortgage.
- Calculating the interest rate differentials: Michelle walks through the math behind comparing mortgage interest rates and savings rates to determine the most effective use of your money.
- Setting up overpayments: Practical tips on setting up regular overpayments and the benefits of automation.
- Offset mortgages: Michelle explains the nuances of offset mortgages and the considerations when deciding on overpayments.
Resources:
- Debt Payoff Calculator
- Sprive app
- MSE website
YOUR HOST
Julie Flynn is an experienced independent financial adviser and financial coach. Justice and equality drive Julie. Which is why she’s spent years studying and researching how stress affects our financial decision making.

Julie is best known for her work with women who have lost their partner and coaching financial services business who want to implement fair and transparent charges.
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CO-HOSTS
Emily Pool is a Financial Planner and Will Writer. She is passionate about empowering people to invest their wealth (pensions and savings) sustainably and in line with their personal values.

Michelle Lambell started her career in financial services as a Stockbroker in 1999 undertaking both advisory and discretionary investment management. Today she is a Chartered Financial Planner, specialising in retirement planning advice, pensions and investments and a Certified Financial Coach.

Sara Walker is a financial planner and financial coach with 33 years’ experience in financial services. She wants all women to feel financially confident and uses her professional and life experiences to support and educate women over 40 so they in turn feel able to support and be role models for the younger women in their lives.
Jennifer O'Neil is a mortgage and protection specialist and director of Athena Mortgages. Having been in the industry since 2014 Jennifer decided to set up a company in 2020 that suited her core values as a broker – integrity, service, honesty and continuous improvement.
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