Mortgage Glossary
Mortgage Point
Defined by Onias Derilus, Mortgage Capital · NMLS# 1859012 · Florida licensed mortgage broker
A mortgage point, or discount point, is an upfront fee equal to 1% of the loan amount that a borrower pays to lower the interest rate.
What Mortgage Point means
Each point typically cuts the rate by about 0.25%, though it varies. Buying points makes sense when you keep the loan long enough to recoup the cost through lower payments. The Loan Estimate shows the tradeoff.
Florida example
A buyer paid one point, $3,000 on a $300,000 Florida loan, to drop the rate from 6.75% to 6.5%, recouping the cost in about four years through lower payments.
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