The Difference In Remortgages, Mortgages And Secured Loans Then And Now.
We have now been advised that the recession in Great Britain is now well and truly over and the news has come from official sources.
This very same news has been expounded before in the press, but this time it is 100% correct and official.
The crash of the financial sector precipitated the credit crunch and perhaps rightly so suffered more than perhaps any other sector of industry, and the crisis was as a direct result of very lax lending of mortgage and commercial lenders who happily advanced massive sums to individuals who were not earning enough to pay the debt.
The secured loan, mortgage and remortgage industries went from one extreme to the other with the slack underwriting being replaced with underwriting at the opposite end of the spectrum, and other major changes were seen.
One change witnessed was the number of secured loan lenders who went out of business and some such as the Cardiff based , First Plus, were house hold names.
One lax secured loan prior to the recession was the well known 125% plan introduced by First Plus where loans of 125% of the property value could be advanced.
Pre credit crunch secured loans were available to the self employed without accounts and the applicant stated his own income on a letter head or a plain sheet of paper accompanied by a business card.
Self declarations were not only a feature of the secured loans sector but similarly remortgages and mortgages were available on this no income proof basis as well.
There are no mortgages or remortgages available on self declarations now and although one secured loan lender accepts them the rates are high at about 25% and the equity is tight at 50% LTV.
Secured loans have had loan to values since the credit crisis of 70% to 80% for employed people and 60% approximately for self employed who must of course provide accounts.
Having gone from lax to strict underwriting it is to be wondered if the end of the expression will see middle ground underwriting appearing.
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July 28, 2011
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Posted by Brucy Victory
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