What is a Secured personal Loan?

Written by John Mussi


A secured personal loan isrepparttar generic term for a loan. Essentially, a secured personal loan is one that is secured against your property.

It is a low interest loan designed exclusively for homeowners. What this means is that, by taking out a secured loan, you are using your house to guaranteerepparttar 141443 loan repayments. A Secured Personal Loan enables you to make use of this asset which will provide security for your loan.

Secured personal loans arerepparttar 141444 best loans for homeowners, of course there is a greater risk attached to this loan asrepparttar 141445 home is put up as a collateral. The home is under risk ifrepparttar 141446 repayments are not paid duly. If you continually fail to make repayments on a secured loan, you could be putting your house at risk.

Becauserepparttar 141447 risk is lower forrepparttar 141448 lender than on an unsecured loan it is possible to get better interest rates than on a loan that is not secured on a property. This is alsorepparttar 141449 reason that lenders are able to offer higher sums than for unsecured loans.

So, why do people take out secured personal loans? Well, firstly you may want to borrow money in order to increase your home's value by making improvements to your home. Others may take on a debt consolidation loan, which means that you take on a large loan for a long period, which pays, off your other loans and credit cards and you end up paying a smaller monthly payment than you were paying with all of your other loans together.

Many people choose secured loans as opposed to unsecured loans becauserepparttar 141450 interest rate is often lower. Typically secured loans are offered at low interest rates, asrepparttar 141451 risk taken on byrepparttar 141452 loan company is less.

Why Choose a Remortgage?

Written by John Mussi


A remortgage can be used forrepparttar purpose of gaining lower interest rates on your mortgage or raising finance through releasing equity.

The term “Remortgage” is used to explainrepparttar 141431 process of moving your mortgage to a new lender. A different lender may offer a significantly better deal than your existing lender.

A remortgage means you are ending your current mortgage scheme and switching to a new scheme. A remortgage generally involves changing mortgage lenders because most lenders do not generally offer remortgage schemes to existing customers.

Mortgage lenders offer discounted interest rates and other desirable introductory offers to attract mortgage holders to switch to their particular lending institution.

Review your current mortgage. If you feel you are paying excessive rates of interest, compared to other lenders then a remortgage may save on your monthly payments. Alternatively, you may be looking for a way to finance an extension or purchase a new car, you could seek to increase your mortgage and takerepparttar 141432 extra sum as cash.

Releasing equity is a good way of raising additional finance. If your home has positive equity - its market value is greater thanrepparttar 141433 outstanding mortgage - you can increaserepparttar 141434 size of your mortgage.

One ofrepparttar 141435 most common reasons for remortgaging is to reduce costs. By switching to a lower interest rate you can either benefit from lower monthly repayments, or keeprepparttar 141436 monthly repaymentsrepparttar 141437 same, thus repayingrepparttar 141438 loan quicker and reducingrepparttar 141439 overall term ofrepparttar 141440 mortgage.

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