Secured loans are obviously, as their name clearly states, a form of loan that must be secured against an asset. There are numerous types of secured loans, but here today we want to discuss the secured homeowner loan.
The asset that must be put up is the equity on either a primary or secondary residence. It is only a lucky minority of people who actually have an additional property.As these loans are secured loans tenants who do not actually own the house in which they live cannot apply. The only kind of loans available to a non homeowner is an unsecured loan. However unsecured loans are not readily available, and even for homeowners an unsecured loan is hard to come by.
Therefore a secured loan is by far the best way for a homeowner to raise money for a number of purposes.In fact a secured loan can be used for almost any legal purpose such as to buy a car, to carry out home improvements, to go on a cruise or any other type of holiday or even to pay for the wedding of your dreams.
To obtain a secured loan you must have enough equity on your property and equity is what is left when you deduct the mortgage balance from the value of the property. If a homeowners property is worth 250,000 and he has a mortgage balance of 160000 the available equity is 100000.
So saying it is not possible since the advent of the recession to borrow up to 100% of the value of the property as it was until 2007. Then there was even the 125% equity plan where by it was possible to borrow up to 25% above the value of the property.
Now the maximum equity that any secured loan lender takes into account is 70% for a self employed secured loan borrower, and 80% if the prospective secured loan applicant is employed. Therefore based on the previous example an employed person could obtain a secured loan of 40,000 maximum, while the maximum available secured loan for a self employed applicant would only be 15,000.
For homeowners with bad credit secured loans are still out there although with much tighter underwriting that before this most awful credit crunch. Before the crunch even homeowners with an extremely bad credit profile could obtain a secured loan up to 75% LTV.
Even homeowners on the verge of having their homes repossessed due to serious mortgage arrears could obtain these bad credit loans.Sometimes it was no bad thing, as the mortgage arrears could have been due to ill health, redundancy and no blame could be attached to the poor unfortunate homeowner.
Even nowadays bad credit secured loans are there but at a very restricted equity margin. The equity taken into account by bad credit secured loan lenders is 60% if the adverse is not too severe and 50% in extreme cases for homeowners with months and months arrears on their mortgage, defaults, county court judgements, etc. There are now only two secured loan lenders who grant this 50% LTV secured loan plan and one of these secured loan lenders is First European Securities.
For this bad credit secured loan it would mean that if First European Securities was prepared to grant a loan advance the maximum loan would be severely restricted. For homeowners with a good credit rating a maximum loan of 100,000 can be available , but with these two bad credit lenders the maximum loan available is in the region of 25,000. To give an example if a property is worth 200000 and the mortgage is 100,000 there is no equity for a bad credit secured loan at all. The maximum mortgage balance in this instance would need to be 90,000 if the applicant wanted a bad credit loan of up to 10,000.
Therefore to sum up bad credit loans are available but with much stricter underwriting criteria now than two years ago. - 29904
The asset that must be put up is the equity on either a primary or secondary residence. It is only a lucky minority of people who actually have an additional property.As these loans are secured loans tenants who do not actually own the house in which they live cannot apply. The only kind of loans available to a non homeowner is an unsecured loan. However unsecured loans are not readily available, and even for homeowners an unsecured loan is hard to come by.
Therefore a secured loan is by far the best way for a homeowner to raise money for a number of purposes.In fact a secured loan can be used for almost any legal purpose such as to buy a car, to carry out home improvements, to go on a cruise or any other type of holiday or even to pay for the wedding of your dreams.
To obtain a secured loan you must have enough equity on your property and equity is what is left when you deduct the mortgage balance from the value of the property. If a homeowners property is worth 250,000 and he has a mortgage balance of 160000 the available equity is 100000.
So saying it is not possible since the advent of the recession to borrow up to 100% of the value of the property as it was until 2007. Then there was even the 125% equity plan where by it was possible to borrow up to 25% above the value of the property.
Now the maximum equity that any secured loan lender takes into account is 70% for a self employed secured loan borrower, and 80% if the prospective secured loan applicant is employed. Therefore based on the previous example an employed person could obtain a secured loan of 40,000 maximum, while the maximum available secured loan for a self employed applicant would only be 15,000.
For homeowners with bad credit secured loans are still out there although with much tighter underwriting that before this most awful credit crunch. Before the crunch even homeowners with an extremely bad credit profile could obtain a secured loan up to 75% LTV.
Even homeowners on the verge of having their homes repossessed due to serious mortgage arrears could obtain these bad credit loans.Sometimes it was no bad thing, as the mortgage arrears could have been due to ill health, redundancy and no blame could be attached to the poor unfortunate homeowner.
Even nowadays bad credit secured loans are there but at a very restricted equity margin. The equity taken into account by bad credit secured loan lenders is 60% if the adverse is not too severe and 50% in extreme cases for homeowners with months and months arrears on their mortgage, defaults, county court judgements, etc. There are now only two secured loan lenders who grant this 50% LTV secured loan plan and one of these secured loan lenders is First European Securities.
For this bad credit secured loan it would mean that if First European Securities was prepared to grant a loan advance the maximum loan would be severely restricted. For homeowners with a good credit rating a maximum loan of 100,000 can be available , but with these two bad credit lenders the maximum loan available is in the region of 25,000. To give an example if a property is worth 200000 and the mortgage is 100,000 there is no equity for a bad credit secured loan at all. The maximum mortgage balance in this instance would need to be 90,000 if the applicant wanted a bad credit loan of up to 10,000.
Therefore to sum up bad credit loans are available but with much stricter underwriting criteria now than two years ago. - 29904
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Champion Finance has been established since 1985. They arrange secured loans for all circumstances. Whole of the market remortgages , and mortgages are also available.
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