Homeowner loans otherwise known as secured loans are of course only available to homeowners.
Tenants are not eligible as these homeowner loans must be secured by the equity on a property. Equity is the difference between the mortgage balance and the value of the property. To give an example if a property is worth 230,000 and the mortgage balance is 120,000 the available equity would be 110,000.
Before the credit crunch secured homeowner loan lenders granted homeowner loans up to 90% LTV, 95% LTV and 100% LTV, and so based on the previous example loans of up to 100,000 were available but also depended on an applicant's income and status.
Some homeowner loan lenders even advanced secured loans at 125% LTV, meaning that secured loans were available at up to 25% more than the value of the property. However, most lenders limited the maximum loan on this plan to a maximum of 60,000.
These loan to values have now gone and the maximum LTV is now 80% if the homeowner is in employment and 10% is deducted if the homeowner loan borrower is self-employed.
The maximum secured loan values nowadays is between 50,000 to 100,000 depending on secured loan lenders.Before the recession loans of up to 250,000 were available if the secured loan applicant had tons of equity.
Secured homeowner loans can be used for almost any purpose whether it is to buy a car, a motorhome, caravan, etc. If a secured loan is used to buy such a thing as a car it means that it can be bought privately at an auction or from a private person saving money compared to buying the same car from a garage, and it also does away with needing a deposit. Currently car loans are normally only available up to about 70% of the purchase price and this can be thousands of pounds needed as a deposit. Using a homeowner loan does away with the requirement of having a deposit.
A homeowner loan is an excellent way to arrange debt consolidation which combines all your outgoings on credit cards, personal loans, etc., saving you a fortune and making your financial life easier to manage.
Secured homeowner loans can be used to buy a second home either at home or abroad, and as with using a homeowner loan to buy a car it does away with needing a deposit.
This is really only the tip of the mountain regarding secured homeowner loans, and more information is readily available from secured loan brokers.
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