A simple change to when you make your mortgage payments can save you thousands of dollars—and a few years—on your mortgage obligation. Many people dream of saying goodbye to their mortgage and living ...

If you have a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, you're locking yourself into three decades of monthly payments, with interest accruing the whole time. It's understandable, then, that some homeowners would ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Making bi-weekly mortgage payments instead of monthly ones could help homeowners pay off their loans years earlier and save thousands of dollars in interest. David Brindley, deputy ...

Your mortgage payment schedule may seem like a minor detail, but how often you make payments can have a large impact on the total cost of your loan. Switching to a biweekly schedule is a convenient ...

For most people, a mortgage is the largest debt they take on in their lives. If you dream about financial freedom and owning your home outright, consider making extra mortgage payments to pay off the ...

When you make biweekly mortgage payments, you pay your loan every two weeks rather than once a month. This translates to 26 half-payments, or the equivalent of 13 full monthly payments over 12 months.

Bi-weekly mortgage plans are a type of accelerated mortgage payoff system and one way to eliminate your real estate loan quicker. If you receive your paycheck every two weeks, a bi-weekly mortgage ...

High mortgage rates are a reality for homebuyers, but there are ways to ease the pinch. One is a repayment strategy called biweekly mortgage payments. With a small additional investment up front and ...

On the Clark Howard Show a couple of years ago, a listener called in to ask if a biweekly mortgage plan (a program where you make half your mortgage payment every two weeks rather than once per month) ...

The idea of accelerating mortgage payments is foreign to most homeowners, but a growing number of people are racing to do just that. And they save a bundle in mortgage interest in the process without ...

As of Nov. 1, a rule in New Jersey requires financial institutions to give buyers the option to make more payments per month.

Biweekly mortgage payments are a good idea under the right circumstances: they can save you thousands of dollars in interest and help you pay off your mortgage faster. But under the wrong ...