Remortgage to Renovate
An excellent way to build equity in your home and get a better interest rate is to remortgage.
This would also allow you to renovate some part of the house, which will only benefit you in the long run when its selling time since it will increase the value of your home. A remortgage could enable you to renovate your home and ultimately build more equity for down the line for another remortgage or for selling. Renovations will do nothing except increase the equity in your home. When you increase the value of your home and deduct the loan amount due on the mortgage you get the value of your equity. Sometimes, it even makes sense to do small, inexpensive renovations before the remortgage, so the appraisal is higher when you go to get a remortgage. Think seriously about a remortgage if building your equity is a goal as well as renovating to update your home or change it for better use.