Remortgages, mortgages and secured loans all form part of what are known as home loans. This being the case means that they are only granted to homeowners.

Mortgages are the home loan required to actually buy a property whether it is a first or subsequent purchase.

A mortgage is a home loan product taken out to buy a property.

The amount of mortgage or remortgage that can be raised against a property depends on the amount of equity available on the property itself. Equity is what is left when the mortgage balance is deducted from the actual worth of the property. If a property has a value of 400,000, and the mortgage secured on it is 220,000, the available equity is 180,000.

Unlike in the past 100% remortgages and mortgages are no longer available let alone the 125% mortgage that used to be available from the Northern Rock Building Society, and remember what went wrong there.

This is all in the past and 125% LTV remortgages and mortgages no longer exist.The 25% LTV mortgage recently introduced by the Nationwide is only a plan to help existing customers who have no equity in their property due to the current economic climate.

If they owe more on their existing mortgage than the house is worth they can obtain a mortgage on their next property of 125%.

There are still a few building societies granting mortgages and remortgages at 90% and very very occasionally 95% LTV, which would mean that if a property is valued at 200,000 on a 90% plan the maximum mortgage or remortgage would be 180,000.

Equity is really king at present and the better the LTV is the cheaper the remortgage rate is.If a homeowner has a 40% deposit mortgages and remortgages are available at under 2% which is the lowest ever rate.

Self certifications of income when applying for a mortgage or remortgage are theoretically still available fom a couple of mortgage lenders, including Platform, but at the end of the day these mortgage lenders can still ask for back up proof of self employed earnings by means of an accountant’s certificate or even full accounts.

Before the credit crunch self certification was rife, and this in fact precipitated the recession itself.

Remortgage and mortgage criteria have very much tightened up and this could do with being relaxed a little.

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