A calm home-office review of a loan statement with a repayment envelope.

Your starting point

Compare what you would pay across different assumptions. A calculator helps you explore a scenario; only a lender can assess an application and offer credit.

Repaying early or changing lender should be assessed against the current contract and applicable rules. Use the steps below to organise a decision, not to infer an official approval, a guaranteed price or a universal deadline.

Work through the decision

Early Repayment, Transfers and Refinancing — a diagram of the key planning steps
Planning diagram. The same steps are described in the text below.
01

Request a current figure

Ask for the outstanding balance and the costs of the proposed transaction.

02

Compare complete scenarios

Include fees, new terms, insurance and any change to the repayment period.

03

Confirm before acting

Obtain written terms and qualified advice where the legal or financial consequences are unclear.

Adapt this to your circumstances

Keep citizenship, current residence, household needs and the location of the home separate in your notes. Ask the responsible authority, institution or qualified professional to confirm any requirement that affects your situation. A checklist used by another household may not apply to yours.

Sources and checks

Banco de Portugal — mortgage interest rates — an official starting point for this topic. The relevant page, its scope and effective date must be checked before a consequential decision.

No market prices, eligibility thresholds or legal deadlines have been invented for this guide. Dates in personal planning tools are suggestions or values you supply.

Make it practical

Open the Mortgage Scenario Calculator to keep the information you collect with your own assumptions, notes and next actions.

Open Mortgage Scenario Calculator

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