Hello! Sorry for writing in English but my Swedish is not very good.
I have been reading the forum since I decided to buy a house in Sweden some years ago, but never really dared asking something.
First of all thanks a lot to you all, for sharing you thoughts and ideas! I am really grateful of finding this place, I learned a lot and continue learning every day.
I come from a country where financial literacy is not very good, I never took out a loan before coming here and loan rules and attitudes are fairly different in general.
I would like to ask your help reviewing my thinking on our bolån.
We took it out in 2023 to buy a villa. Timing was not exceptional for interest rates and we decided to fix the loan for three different lengths of time.
Specifically we borrowed just below 70% of the house value, corresponding to ca. 3.6M and divided the amount into ca. 80K, 160k and 102k fixed for 2, 5 and 10 years respectively. This solution gave us decent interests and especially a comfortable monthly fee. We understood and accepted that if for whatever reason we want or need to extinguish in advance we will face interest compensation payment.
Now the first chunk is running out and I had an illuminating chat with the bank. My general take is moving to floating point and they mentioned they can offer and extra .1 discount if I move my pension with them and the 0.1 discount will apply to all the loans.
This opened up my mind to the possibility that I can actually modify all the loans so I asked what would be the interest compensation I would pay today. It turned out it’s “only” in the order of 30k, while I would end up with a monthly payment 3k cheaper.
My head jumped to the conclusion that in just 10 months I pay off the interest compensation (plus minus tax refunds and similar side considerations) gaining the freedom of moving elsewhere if I need to and getting a lower (assuming of course there’s no financial drama, another war etc). One surprise for me is that as of today the 10y fixed loan calls for 0 interest compensation.
Is there some pitfall I am not seeing in this reasoning? Thanks in advance for any insight you might want to share ![]()
have a great day!