Now in Labs: See your mortgage in Monzo 🏠

[richycran (Rich)]

@HB

For folks who have talked about wanting to see more recent payments (and overpayments) reflected in their mortgage balance - I’d love to hear a little more about your rationale

I was a first time buyer last year and my mortgage is the biggest amount of credit I’ll ever see myself incurring. I’m very much interested in what action I have taken, or could take in future, to reduce the balance and any interest charges.

I’ve been making reasonable (but not massive) overpayments each month but I have no idea how much this has saved me in potential future interest and a shortening of the mortgage term (all things being equal).

Going forward, I don’t know what impact reducing my overpayments or increasing them will have (ie. Is the benefit so small I’d be better doing something else?).

I would, somehow, absolutely love to see both historical impact of overpayments (‘you have overpaid £x which has caused you mortgage term to decrease by y months and have saved £z interest), and something where you have the ability to model future overpayments e.g. a slider with [£25] increments which adjusts the gradient on a graph (current vs revised mortgage term) and quantifies the impact.

Once I did something similar with my student loan and it really helped me understand the impact of making additional payments over and above the salary deduction (but within my means) and I paid it off so much faster.

May wel be in the ‘too hard box’ but would love to see this!

[j06 (Jamie)]

Without knowing any specific numbers/rates, you can be safe in the knowledge that any overpayments will save you A LOT of money over the whole term (making sure you don’t incur any extra charges!)

I don’t make overpayments currently as I’m still doing the house up, but as a rule I always ensure I ‘overpay’ the amount of the mortgage arrangement charge at the start of the term, so I’m not accruing interest on it.

[DaveJ (Dave)]

Your mortgage lender will generally have a tool available which you can plug all the figures info.

MSE has a decent overpayment tool which you can also get it to check to see if you’re better off overpaying or saving that money instead

[richycran (Rich)]

@DaveJ

MSE has a decent overpayment tool which you can also get it to check to see if you’re better off overpaying or saving that money instead

EXACTLY this. But in-app

And Monzo’d. With a slidey thing.

[Peter_G]

Here’s a small ask: can I change the name of my mortgage provider (and other connected accounts)?

Why?

• Because Monzo is picking up a very long form of the provider name.
• For connected accounts I have multiple accounts with some banks. I can’t distinguish between them!
• I’d like to put the interest rate or other useful info in the name (it’s a hack but a useful one).

[HB (Harry)]

I’ll answer this for the mortgages part (although a similar model we’re not looking at the other connected accounts with our work at the moment!)

Shorter term: We’ve got “short names” and logos for ~ 22 lenders which popped up during our staff testing phase - which we manually categorised once we saw how the lender names were defined in the TransUnion API.

We’ll likely do another batch of the new lenders folks have connected in Labs to give it some extra polish!

Longer term: All the feedback on the Community (and via the app) has been super helpful - it will help us to think about the best way to personalise things visually as well as the data!

As you can imagine, we’d like to try to align as much of this “top level” data with the great progress being made over at App Evolution!

[Ian-T-Price]

Easy enough to access but the figures are wrong.

I have two mortgages and

• the monthly payments are on the wrong accounts
• the total amount of mortgage is also reversed
• which means the calculated paid back amounts and percentages are a work of fiction

I read in the comments that the data is from TransUnion and not from the Mortgage provider.
So a case of GIGO, Garbage In, Garbage out.

And these people are giving out ratings on my worthiness…

[Chris_R (Chris Rimell)]

My mortgage has now refreshed and it’s only 14 days out of date. So that’s better

[npc_06]

Just added my mortgage from Platform, surprised it found it but no fancy card design. Only paid back 9%

[aCCount]

Yeah but I’m ok with this. I’ve just taken out a mortgage… 12 monthly payments x 25 years = 300 payments. So if it’s one or two payments outs, it’s still accurate to within about 0.5%. As you get closer to paying it off, that error will become more significant, but I still think it’s a nice addition.

[HB (Harry)]

I know for a fact that we have a design for this kicking around in a Figma file - maybe we’ll have a New Year’s card design as a gift to you!

[npc_06]

How about Christmas?

[davidwalton (Hot Coral Analyst)]

Bring back shake-to-snow

Monzo - please change these flags to ‘true’:

<boolean name="snowglobe_2018" value="false" />

<boolean name="snowfall" value="false" />

[Peter_G]

Paging Santa Doe! @AlanDoe

[robulation (Rob Laird)]

Just tried this now, and strangely it came up with two mortgages. One was correct, the other incorrect? How could this be?

[ndrw (Smartest ‘person’ in the ‘room’.)]

Do you have two mortgages on your credit report?

[caribo]

I have a mortgage with Barclays that came with a “reserve” account which allows for extra borrowing. This shows as a separate mortgage account with a zero borrowing and zero balance on my credit report… Maybe something similar?

[DaveJ (Dave)]

It matches your details against what TransUnion hold, quickest and easiest way to check that they hold is to sign up to Credit Karma if you don’t already. It’s free, don’t bother with any paid services if it asks / prompts. Once you’ve got access, check your credit file to see what it holds. They use TransUnion data so you’ll be able to see what Monzo sees.

If however you can’t find another mortgage under your details, then report it to Monzo as feedback to staff can check to see why it’s pulling something else.

[robulation (Rob Laird)]

@DaveJ @caribo @ndrw It’s strange as it shows the extra one as HSBC. I don’t have any additional lending and have never had a mortgage with HSBC. Will have a check with TransUnion and report back!

[robulation (Rob Laird)]

Thanks for your help… I signed up to CreditKarma and it showed me everything I needed to know.

Is there a way to get stuff removed from it? As it seems they’ve incorporated my twin brother’s information into my credit score. (This sort of thing happens to us all the time… back in the day, at university he got double the student loan paid into his account and I got none ).

Thanks again for your help.