Most borrowers have little choice about how to manage mortgage debt, other than to pay regular amounts prescribed by the lender. If they want to pay off capital early, they find that some lenders charge for this, while many lenders will not credit any extra capital repayments until the year end. This means that for most of the year interest is being charged as if for a loan that is bigger than the one that actually exists. Take, for instance, a mortgage of 0,000, repayable over 25 years at an interest rate of 8.55%. Your typical loan repayments would be £490 a month. If, however, your repayments were taken into account the moment they were made, you could repay your loan 11 months early, saving more than £5,000. Where you can really start eating into your debt is by having your salary paid into your mortgage account. As salaries rise and you can afford to repay more of your debt the term of what, traditionally, would have been a 25-year mortgage can be cut quite dramatically.