The Future Of Secured Loans / Homeowner loans.
When a loan is called a homeowner loan what this means that only those who actually own the home in which they live can apply.
Another common name for a homeowner loan is a secured loan and this therefore suggests that some form of security must be provided by the borrower.
In the case of a personal secured loan the asset is the equity available in the actual property.
An explanation of the meaning of the word, equity, is that the gap between the property value and the mortgage is the available equity.
On a property worth 300,000 with a mortgage of 210,000 secured on it the equity would be 90,000 but these days the homeowner loan that could be applied for is not 90,000.
At the start of the recession secured loan lenders tightened up their homeowner loan criteria to advance secured loans up to a maximum LTV of 80% for those who are employed and 10% less for the self employed, and although the recession is over the underwriting for the present remains the same.
Criteria will be changing a little in the very near future as a new homeowner loan lender is set to appear with available loan to values up to 90%.
Secured loan brokers have struggled to survive the recession with homeowner loan approvals now under 20% of the level that they were at at the end of 2006, and homeowner loan lenders have almost all gone to the wall.
It is all a big change from the hey day when thousands of homeowner loan brokers arranged thousands of these once so very popular secured loans each year.
Before the credit crunch it was possible for self employed applicants to simply state their net profit on a letter head. and with Future even the employed could declare their own earnings without any back up proof.
Instead of the current tight equity restrictions of the present three years ago an applicant for a homeowner loan could even borrow 25% more than the property was worth and this was called the 125% plan, and was a very popular product.
Now that the recession is over it can only be hoped that the homeowner loan sector will resurrect slowly but surely.
Want to find out more about secured loans, then visit Champion Finance’s site on how to choose the best homeowner loans for you.