100% Remortgages
Is there such a thing as 100% remortgages? This is a very good question and tricky to answer! Until late you could of course get 100% mortgages in your property, sometimes even higher. However lending on remortgages had to account for the original debt to either be incorporated into the new mortgage loan, or to add a second charge on the mortgage behind the original mortgage and thus constitute a 100% remortgage.
Banks and financial lenders of late, have however been fearful of the 100 percent mortgage, as it allows little or no room for error on the lenders part. This is because the mortgage is maxxed out initially with no deposit, or zero down, which puts all the liablity and risk at the feet of the 100% mortgage company.
In a property market which is increasing in value, this is fine, however in a plummetting market, it makes them rather more nervous, since the more the property drops, the more potential negative equity in an underpriced market property they could end up. Which is why, in the current mortgage climate, 100% remortgages are hard to find.


September 18, 2011 | Posted by admin
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