Contributor
Michael Bennett
Mortgage writer — home financing, refinancing and interest rates
Michael Bennett writes Legamoney's mortgage coverage: payment and amortisation maths, refinancing decisions, preapproval and underwriting, home equity and reverse mortgages. He works from HUD programme handbooks, CFPB rules under TILA and Regulation Z, and the FHFA conforming loan limits, and links to the weekly Freddie Mac survey rather than quoting a fixed rate. He works with the Legamoney Mortgage & Lending Desk.
Areas of expertise
- Mortgage payment and amortisation maths
- Refinancing, break-even and closing costs
- Preapproval, underwriting and affordability
- Home equity, HELOCs and reverse mortgages
Published
140 articles
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- 02Figures that change — rates, limits, thresholds — link to the primary source that publishes them rather than being quoted as a fixed number.
- 03Worked examples are shown as full arithmetic so a reader can reproduce the result independently.
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Articles by Michael Bennett
Loans & Mortgage (24)
Mortgages · 24
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