One
Hundred and Twenty Five Percent Mortgage
Since
the credit crisis these type of products are no longer available and lenders have steered away
from this type of high risk product.
This
is what the product was:-
Changing
circumstances can adversely effect your ability
to service the loan. It must also be realised
that although you may wish to consolidate unsecured
debt for example credit cards and loans you
will be placing unsecured debt on to a secured
loan.
A
typical example might be where 95% of the mortgage
consists of a secured loan on the property and
the rest, the extra 30 % is
an unsecured loan. The two amounts will normally
be at the same rate which could be for example
fixed or variable and both will run the same
term. Some terms may stretch to 35 years long.
The
advantage of a long term is to be able to have
lower monthly repayments providing the mortgage
is capital and repayment. However the downside
would be the large amount of interest you will
be paying to a lender over 35 years, the long
term could possibly take the client passed their
retirement date and servicing the loan should
be considered. Ideally if you are able to make
regular over payments along side your monthly
mortgage payments or make large lump sum overpayments
you will reduce the term of the loan and make
saving on the total interest you will be paying
back to the lender.
Advantage
:
You
may potentially purchase a home if you had no
savings for a deposit and solicitors fees etc.
Or a possible way of a large remortgage
Disadvantages
:
Higher
interest rate
Few
lenders offer a such mortgages so choice is
limited
Not
available as a Self Certification loan (self
cert)
Not
available to clients who have an adverse credit
rating (bad credit)
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