Re: Should I make overpayments on mortgage?

renneds wrote:

Someone once told me to not bother making overpayments on a mortgage.
Their logic was the £1000 I put in today is worth more in real terms
than £2000 saved in 25 years time.

That's nonsense. If making overpayments were "bad" in this way, then
"good" would be to underpay, or even better not to pay at all, not
even interest.

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