{"id":883089,"date":"2026-09-04T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883089\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:32:08","slug":"more-than-1-in-4-people-with-low-mortgage-rates-are-making-the-mistake-of-paying-them-off-too-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883089\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1 in 4 people with low mortgage rates are making the mistake of paying them off too quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"K2HSCGFGZVH2RKCYSDGAV7L7YI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Almost 1 in every 4 homeowners is paying off their mortgage at a rate faster than they\u2019re required to \u2014 but the people who would benefit the most from this strategy are the ones least likely doing it.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FTMS2D6QFJAFHMXDTS45AZ5RR4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketcompanies.com\/press-release\/nearly-one-in-four-homeowners-make-an-extra-mortgage-payment-each-year-cutting-as-many-as-six-years-off-their-loan\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rocketcompanies.com\/press-release\/nearly-one-in-four-homeowners-make-an-extra-mortgage-payment-each-year-cutting-as-many-as-six-years-off-their-loan\/\">surprising new data<\/a> comes from the major lender Rocket Mortgage, which analyzed early payments on nearly 3 million of its loans in all 50 states over the past five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 1 in every 4 homeowners is paying off their mortgage at a rate faster than they\u2019re required&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-883089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}