Highlights
- Application fee: $0 (until 31 December then $350)
- Legal fee: $295
- Loan is portable ($350 fee applies)
- Service fee: $0 per annum
- Settlement fee: $0 (until 31 December then $250)
- Valuation fee: $0
Other Features
- Able to split loan ($75 per split, first 2 splits are free)
- Comparison rate: 6.47%
- Exit fee: $350
- Extra repayments allowed
- Fortnightly repayments allowed
- Loan amount: $40,000 to $2,000,000
- Loan term: 1 to 30 years
- Maximum loan to value ratio (LVR) with mortgage insurance: 90%
- Maximum loan to value ratio (LVR): 80%
- Other upfront fees: $0
- Redraw facility available ($50 fee applies)
- Variable interest rate: 6.45%
About This Loan
The AMP Essential Home Loan is a simple and flexible home loan with a competitively low interest rate.
The key benefits of this Essential Home Loan are a lower interest rate on this loan compared to the AMP Classic Standard Variable Rate and no ongoing fees. The discounted rate lasts for the life of this loan. You can also benefit from a features such as additional repayment options and redraw facility.
Features & Benefits
No Fees
The AMP Essential Home Loan has eliminated many of the traditional home loan fees such as Application, Settlement and Valuation.
Additional Repayments
You can make additional repayments during the loan – this allows you to pay this loan off at a faster rate when you have extra money available to you at times during the loan term.
Interest Only Payment Option
You can access an ‘Interest Only’ option with the Essential Home Loan where you only pay the ‘interest amount’ on the loan for a period of time (up to 5 years). During this time you won’t be making any repayments to the principal and will be paying interest on the entire principal amount every month.
Redraw Facility
With this Essential Home Loan you can re-draw cash back out of the loan - this allows you to access funds that you have already paid in to the loan. When you redraw, you can only redraw additional amounts that you have paid in to the loan above the standard monthly amounts. When you redraw, you can only redraw additional amounts that you have paid into the loan above the standard monthly amounts.
Ability to Split Loan
Splitting the loan means that you can use this AMP Essential Home Loan for a portion of your total borrowings and use another AMP loan for the other portion - 'splitting' this loan with another loan. You might split your total borrowings between AMP Fixed Rate Home Loan and this Essential Home Loan to ensure a level of repayment certainty.