Mortgages And Remortgages Facts.

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

Both mortgages and remortgages are secured on residential property, and the amount of mortgage or remortgage that can be granted depends on the available equity on the property.

For those unfamiliar with the term equity this is the amount left when the mortgage secured on the property is deducted from the value of the property itself.

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.

This is in total contrast to the remortgage market up to the start of 2007 when mortgages up to 100% LTV were common practice with the Northern Rock even advancing remortgages and mortgages up to 125% of the available equity on the property. This all of course helped towards the demise of that particular building society.

Mortgages and remortgages have good rates of interest at present with the repayments on tracker deals being particularly attractive at present.

The tracker product tracks the Bank Of England which is at an all time low of half of one percent and as the the tracker mortgage is based on this their rates are amazingly good.

At present tracker deals are available from 1.98% for those with a maximum 60% LTV and from 1.99% for those with a maximum 70% LTV. Therefore in spite of an aura of gloom and doom in the financial sector mortgage products are still healthy.

Even fixed rate remortgages and mortgages are low with rates starting around the 3% mark, and as such although slack equity products are no longer available there are excellent mortgage products still available.

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