Thursday, December 31, 2009

Mortgages And Remortgages Facts.


By Liz Moir

There are numerous types of loans that form the group called home loans, and two members of this group are mortgages and remortgages.

What forms the security for both mortgages and remortgages is a property, and to be more specific the equity on any particular property.

Equity is the difference between the value of a property and the mortgage secured on it.

To give an example of what equity in fact is, on a property valuation of 250,000 and a mortgage outstanding of 80,000, the available equity would be 170,000.

For both remortgages and mortgages lenders are no longer willing to grant 100% LTV products.

Mortgages and remortgages at even 95% LTV are thin on the ground and are only available from a handful of mortgage lenders.The availability of 90% LTV mortgages and remortgages is not common at present.

The situation in the mortgage and remortgage market place is a very different place now from it was at the end of 2006 up to the beginning of 2007 when 100% LTV remortgages and mortgages were readily available; The Northern Rock Building Society even had a mortgage plan whereby a borrower could borrow up to 25% more than the value of the property. However what happened to that society is history.

However all is not doom and gloom in the mortgage market as rates available are very good with tracker remortgages and mortgages at a historic low.

The tracker remortgage and mortgage do exactly as stated and that is why they are so low at present as they track the Bank Of England Base lending Rate of 0.05%.

Rates as low as 1.98% and 1.99% are out there with the former being available for those with at least a 40% deposit and the latter for those with a minimum 30% deposit.

Fixed rate remortgages and mortgages abound starting at about 3%, and as such the mortgage and remortgage sector still offer attractive products.

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