{"id":8998,"date":"2017-01-31T02:49:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T18:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.99.co\/blog\/singapore\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2022-07-01T04:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:05:56","slug":"interest-offset-mortgage-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/interest-offset-mortgage-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest-offset mortgage account: How it can reduce your mortgage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_8999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8999\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/interest-offset-mortgage-account.png\" alt=\"An interest-offset mortgage account can help you mitigate costs in financing your property if done properly\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interest-offset mortgage account can help you mitigate costs in financing your property if done properly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2016\/12\/14\/us-federal-reserve-set-raise-interest-rates-happens-next\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> increase in Federal Rates towards the end of last year<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, home-owners here are frantically looking out for refinancing opportunities in anticipation of higher interest rates. Other than locking in your <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/fixed-rate-home-loans\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rates with a fixed-rate loan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, there is another way to reduce your monthly mortgage repayments \u2013 an interest-offset mortgage account. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What&#8217;s an\u00a0<\/b><b>interest-offset mortgage account<\/b><b>?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Interest-Offset mortgage account is a repayment account that is linked to your mortgage loan. The account acts like a savings account but allows you to earn a high interest rate that matches your housing loan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depending on the bank, the interest rate earned may vary and may not apply to the entire sum you have saved in the account. The great thing is that you can use the account like a normal savings account and draw on the funds anytime when you need them. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Who can benefit from an interest-offset mortgage account<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may wonder why someone would rather put a large amount of funds into a savings account rather than pay down part of their home loan to reduce their total interest payments. Well, there can be several reasons, such as preferring to have liquidity instead of having locked up their funds in financing their property. This can be part of their emergency funds to ensure they have enough cash for a rainy day. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some home-owners may also prefer to use the maximum leverage they can get to put their cash to greater use. This means that they fully maximise the amount of loan they can borrow, and may have other ideas of putting their liquid cash to better use. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borrowers can also make use of this account as a hedge against higher loan rates since they will simultaneously earn a higher interest rate in their accounts as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Generally, such accounts will benefit those who have spare cash that they can put in an interest-offset mortgage account to earn the higher interest rates, rather than put them into a normal savings deposit where interest rates average about 0.5 percent or less. Even fixed time-deposit may have a hard time matching the rates of these accounts!<\/p>\n<h3><b>Product Features<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently in Singapore, there are three interest-offset mortgage accounts available provided by Standard Chartered, Citibank and HSBC. While the interest rates offered across the three loans are different, we will focus on the product feature relating to the interest-offset feature instead:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b> MortgageOne SIBOR \u2013 Standard Chartered<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sc.com\/sg\/borrow\/mortgages-mortgageone-sibor.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MortgageOne SIBOR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Account matches 2\/3 of the deposit in the repayment account to the housing loan interest rate, with the remaining 1\/3 earning the bank\u2019s prevailing rate, which is currently at 0.25 percent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 333px;\" width=\"659\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Loan Amount<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$600,000<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Deposit Amount<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$50,000<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interest charged<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interest Offset per year <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2\/3 of deposit enjoys 2% &#8211; $666.66<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1\/3 of deposit enjoys 0.25%- S41.66<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Total interest earned per year &#8211; $708.33 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interest offset per month<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$59<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><b>Citibank Home Saver<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citibank.com.sg\/gcb\/landing_page\/mortgage_with_header\/mortgage.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Citibank Home Saver<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a mortgage loan that comes with a checking account which earns you interest adjustment of up to 50 percent of the effective home loan interest rate. If your home loan interest is at 2 percent, the cash balance in your account will earn 1 percent interest instead. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 347px;\" width=\"654\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Loan Amount<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$600,000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Deposit Amount<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$50,000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interest charged<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2%<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interest Offset per year <\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1% of $50,000<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Total interest earned per year &#8211; $500 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interest offset per month<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$41.66<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><b>SmartMortgage \u2013 HSBC<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsbc.com.sg\/1\/2\/personal\/loans\/home-loan-packages\/smartmortgage\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HSBC&#8217;s SmartMortgage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> allows borrowers to earn an interest rate that matches their home loan for 70 percent of the borrower\u2019s deposit while the remaining 30 percent of the deposit do not earn any interest. It is a current account that is linked to a SIBOR-Pegged SmartMortgage loan, and you can choose to have no lock-in or lock-in periods of up to three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To qualify for the account, you need to have a minimum loan size of S$500,000 and is only available for completed properties with the Temporary Occupation Permit(TOP) obtained.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 309px;\" width=\"507\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Loan Amount<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$600,000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Deposit Amount<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$50,000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interest charged<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interest Offset per year <\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$700<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interest offset per month<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$58.33<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As you can see from the above examples, Standard Chartered&#8217;s MortgageOne SIBOR allows borrowers to earn the most interest from the accounts. However, borrowers need to consider the other features that come with these loans to have a better comparison.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, while HSBC&#8217;s SmartMortgage provides the highest amount for deposit matching, but their loan rates are pretty high compared to the others as well due to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsbc.com.sg\/1\/2\/personal\/loans\/home-loan-packages\/smartmortgage\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">high spread of 1.35 percent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Comparatively, Standard Chartered&#8217;s MortgageOne SIBOR only charges a spread of 0.5 percent with a 2 year lock-in period. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thus, borrowers will need to access the individual loan products from a more holistic view to ensure their suitability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides opting for a fixed-rate loan, there are ways to reduce your mortgage repayments via an interest-offset mortgage account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":54622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53593,53589,57131],"tags":[],"persona":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Interest-offset mortgage account: How it can reduce your mortgage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Besides opting for a fixed-rate loan, there are ways to reduce your mortgage repayments via an interest-offset mortgage account.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/interest-offset-mortgage-account\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interest-offset mortgage account: How it can reduce your mortgage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Besides opting for a fixed-rate loan, there are ways to reduce your mortgage repayments via an interest-offset mortgage account.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/interest-offset-mortgage-account\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/99dotco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-01-30T18:49:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-30T20:05:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/interest-offset-mortgage-account.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"842\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lynette Tan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@99dotco\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@99dotco\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lynette Tan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/interest-offset-mortgage-account\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/interest-offset-mortgage-account\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lynette Tan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/#\/schema\/person\/e9d47982c42566b324ca8de055cab8b5\"},\"headline\":\"Interest-offset mortgage account: How it can reduce your mortgage\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-01-30T18:49:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-30T20:05:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/interest-offset-mortgage-account\/\"},\"wordCount\":796,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/interest-offset-mortgage-account\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/interest-offset-mortgage-account.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Financial News\",\"Home &amp; 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