Home equity loan information can sometimes be confusing and misleading. I have written this article to properly explain home equity loans. Basically equity is the difference between your home’s appraised — or fair market value and the outstanding mortgage balance you owe on your home. Borrowing against the equity built up in a home has [...]
Bridging finance, also referred to as “bridge loans” and “bridging loans”, have nothing at all to do with re-constructing the London Bridge. Bridging finance is typically a short-term loan that a business uses to supply cash for a real estate transaction until permanent financing can be arranged. The word “bridge” conveys the fact that the [...]
In many ways a commercial mortgage is just like a residential mortgage in that you pledge real property as collateral against a loan to either buy or refinance that property. You can also receive a commercial re-mortgage and use it as a line of credit for any business purpose.
When you use a commercial mortgage to [...]
Presently council tenants are able to purchase their rented property after 2 years of tenancy. However, this is about to change. As of the 18th January 2005, the new Housing Bill becomes law and the current 2 years will change to a period of 5 years. This means, that once the proposals come into force, [...]
When you begin your search for a new home loan, one of the first things to consider is where you’ll get the money. Your basic choices will be mortgage brokers and banks.
Your first instinct may be to go with your local bank, who you know from doing business with them for other things, such as [...]
I read a press release the other day which points to the fact we need to be very careful with our finances. The subject of the release was home mortgages. A company was announcing the availability of 40 year mortgages for its customers. The stated purpose was to lower the monthly payments to make buying [...]
When you go to the bank to get a mortgage, you’ll inevitably be asked to take out mortgage insurance. The idea behind mortgage insurance is simply that if something happens to you or your spouse then your loan will be paid off which is good news for your family and the bank. Most financial institutions [...]
With mortgage rates continuing on a downward trend, the competition in the business is fierce. A day never passes that I don’t hear some crazy advertisement about a new loan program that XYZ mortgage company has and no one else offers. One of the oldest programs remains steadfast in both its high profile and its [...]
You may have heard people, especially mortgage lenders, extolling the virtues of biweekly payments, saying that you can save thousands of dollars and take 5-7 years off your mortgage–and then offering to set up a biweekly plan for you for as little as $400. But you don’t have to spend $400 to begin saving money [...]
Before I go further, let me ask a question- if you won the lottery tomorrow, would you take the payout in a lump sum or in monthly payments?
Most people would take a lump sum because even though it might be less than the total prize, they would have control over a large sum of money [...]