Five strategies to pay off the mortgage faster

<p><strong>Each week BusinessDesk and the NZ Herald's Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's how a few tweaks could set you free from your mortgage years earlier. Hosted by Frances Cook.</strong></p> <p>Buying and paying off your home is one of the biggest financial decisions many of us will make. </p> <p>But the financial journey doesn't stop on the day you buy the house. </p> <p>How you handle the mortgage in the years afterward can also change your financial future. </p> <p>There are different ways of making the payments, and a few mental tricks, that can shave thousands off this financial commitment and set you free years earlier. </p> <p>For the latest podcast I talked to Rupert Gough from Mortgage Lab. </p> <p>If you have a question about this podcast, or a question you'd like answered in the next one, come and talk to me about it. I'm on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookNZ/">Facebook here</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/">Instagram here</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesCook">Twitter here</a></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>