Remortgages and secured loans are both form of loans secured on the equity available on a residential property, and in spite of the fact that they have many things in common it is the secured loan we are considering here.
What is meant by equity is really the gap between the balance of a mortgage and the value of the property on which the mortgage is secured.This means that the equity on a property would be 100,000, if the value of the property is 230,000 and the mortgage secured on the property is-0,000.
Before the credit crunch secured loans were available very commonly at 90% to 95%, and most secured loan lenders granted secured loans at these equity margins.
Self employed applicants were even allowed secured loans of up to 100% of the property value, and simply declared their own net profit as so called proof of income. Loans on this plan were available from 5,000 to a maximum of 75,000. This was a fairly large value secured loan .
This all seems rather fool hardy looking back, although this secured loan plan certainly suited many self employed applicants seeking the very useful secured loan product, and also very much the secured loan brokers who were before the credit crunch able to place many more secured loans with lenders before the credit crunch than at present.
It can be very frustrating in this current economic gloom for perfectly good clean credit worthy prospective secured loan borrowers to be unable to obtain a loan because of the very strict equity margins, and other tightening of criteria.
It is equally frustrating for the many decent reputable secured loan brokers to be so frequently unable to obtain a secured loan for a customer which in the past would have been an application welcomed by the secured loan lenders as the main stay of their business.
With Black Horse, the secured loan lender increasing their LTV for secured loans from 70% to 80% some hope of a resurrection is spreading in the secured loans sector.
With the further announcement this week that the secured loan lender from Cardiff, announcing an increase in their LTV from 70% to 80% it is to be hoped that the secured loan industry will experience a much needed revival.
Secured loan brokers in particular will welcome this revival.
Want to find out more about secured loans, then visit Champion Finance’s site on how to choose the best secured loan for your needs.
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