Essentially the goal in re-mortgaging an existing loan is to reduce the payment by getting a lower interest rate, stretching out the payments over a longer period of time, or both.

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By contrast, re-mortgaging a home simply means to take out a new loan equal to what is currently owed, but usually at a different interest rate and a different period of repayment.

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