Property Price Rises Will Have An Affect On Mortgages, Remortgages And Secured Loans.

The recession caused the demand, and also the approvals

, for mortgages, remortgages and secured loans to decline dramatically.

Remortgages, mortgages and secured loans all have much in common, and the most important thing that they have in common is that they are all connected in some way to property and the equity on that property.

Mortgages are first of all the home loans needed to purchase a property and as most people move house every few years, the majority of people will hold several mortgages in the course of a life time.

People do sometimes pay cash when buying a home, but these are few and far between, as very few consumers have savings that would enable them to purchase a property outright.

The fall in the value of property caused the demand for mortgages to decrease, as few people had sufficient confidence in the economy to consider moving house or taking out a mortgage to become a homeowner for the first time.

Builders found it difficult to sell their completed properties and were forced to reduce their prices.

When a person takes out a mortgage, they are normally tied in to the deal for a certain period of time of generally between two to five years.

There are heavy penalties when paying a mortgage off during the tie in period.Early repayment penalties are expensive at from 2% to 5% of the mortgage balance.

When the tie in mortgage period was complete many motgage payers sought a remortgage.

A remortgage is the moving from one provider to another to, as already mentioned, obtain a better interest rate. However to obtain a low interest rate there must be equity on the property , and because of the drop in property prices, many could no longer hope to be granted a lower rate of interest and were therefore compelled to remain with their current mortgage provider.

Therefore, for the very same reason as for mortgages, the demand for a remortgage plumetted due to the property price crash.

Secured loans suffered a similar fate, and they fell by more than 80%, decimating the number of secured loan lenders and brokers.

Secured loans are home loans secured on the equity of a property, and they rank as a second charge behind the first mortgage.

Both remortgages and secured loans used to be very popular means for homeowners to release equity to obtain funds that they could use for a number of puposes from car purchase to funding home improvements,etc. and were also often used for debt consolidation.

Yet again however, many homeowners could no longer obtain secured loans, or homeowner loans which is their alternative name, due to there being insufficient equity on their property.

The fact that property values are now going up will yet again mean that homeowners will have enough equity to apply for remortgages and secured loans.

by: Liz Moir

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