Sunday, 31 January 2010

The Tightening Up Of Underwriting A Remortgage.


By Bertie Como

Some financial loans are not available to people who rent their homes whether from a local council, housing association or from a private individual, and one such product are remortgages.

A remortgage is when a homeowner takes out a new mortgage with a different lender often to replace the mortgage than he currently has to obtain a lower interest rate.

Mortgages are as stated the loan that everyone needs to purchase a property in the first place, remortgages are therefore like mortgages a homeowner product and only that.

As a remortgage is a secured product the lender is strongly of the opinion that the money lent is very likely to be repaid faithfully each month and is prepared to advance a remortgage much more readily than if it is an unsecured loan where if the borrower defaults it can be extremely difficult if not impossible to get the loan back.

This fact has not been the case over the last three years, as many have fallen behind with their payments although very reluctantly due to having become victims of the credit crisis.

Such wide spread mortgage arrears is not the norm as most people are very careful about maintaining their mortgage payments as their home is the most important thing in the world to them.

Mortgage lenders have now made mortgages and remortgages less available or more correctly tightened up their criteria due to all those in arrears.

Changes such as the abolition of self certifications of income have been introduced and proof of income is required for both employed and self employed remortgage applicants.

A major sign of tightening up has been the doing away with self employed self declaring their earnings for mortgage and remortgage purposes.

Other changes because of what has happened in the mortgage and remortgage market is that mortgage lenders now insist on seeing the last three months bank statements to make certain that the applicants outgoings, earnings etc. are exactly as stated on their remortgage application.

Another sign of the times is that when applying for a mortgage or remortgage the applicant must produce his bank statements for the previous three months for the lender to make certain that the repayments are affordable and to make absolutely sure what is being deposited and withdrawn monthly.

Living through another recession is not an option.

Another credit crisis is certainly not something we want to experience.

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