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Home Business Real Estate Interesting Facts About Homeowner Loans Otherwise Know As Secured Loans.
Interesting Facts About Homeowner Loans Otherwise Know As Secured Loans. PDF Print E-mail
Written by Liz Moir   
Sunday, 01 November 2009 07:37
Homeowner loans otherwise known as secured loans are of course only available to homeowners.

Homeowner loans otherwise known as secured loans are of course only available to homeowners.

Homeowners are the only people who are eligible for these homeowner loans as they require to be secured against an asset which in this case is a property. What equity is is the differerence between what a house is worth and the mortgage secured on it. To give an example of what equity is that if a property is worth 290,000, and the mortgage is 100,00, the equity is 190,000.

Loan to value plans before the recession were available up to 100%, and secured loans of up to 100,000 were readily available subject to other criteria relating to a homeowner loan applicant's status, income, etc.

There were a few secured homeowner loan lenders willing to advance secured loans of up to 125% LTV, and it was only homeowners with excellent credit ratings who were considerd for these homeonwer loans. The maximum loan that was granted with most homeowner loan lenders was between 50,000 to 60,000 on this plan.

These loan to values have now gone and the maximum LTV is now 80% if the homeowner is in employment and 10% is deducted if the homeowner loan borrower is self employed.

Secured homeowner loans used to be up to a maximum loan value of 250,000. With others the maximum available homeowner loan was 100,000. Secured loans are available now of up to 50,000 with some homeowner loan lenders, and some are prepared to lend up to 100,000.

Secured homeowner loans can be used for almost any purpose whether it is to buy a car, a motorhome, caravan, etc. If a secured loan is used to buy such a thing as a car it means that it can be bought privately at an auction or from a private person saving money compared to buying the same car from a garage, and it also does away with needing a deposit. Currently car loans are normally only available up to about 70% of the purchase price and this can be thousands of pounds needed as a deposit. Using a homeowner loan does away with the requirement of having a deposit.

You can use a homeowner loan as a debt consolidation loan which saves loads of money as it rolls all outstanding debts into one, and makes struggling with numerous debts a thing of the past.

Secured homeowner loans can be used to buy a second home either at home or abroad, and as with using a homeowner loan to buy a car it does away with needing a deposit.

This is really only the tip of the mountain regarding secured homeowner loans, and more information is readily available from secured loan brokers.

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