Archive for Mortgage Repayments
Jan
13
how are you doing with your mortgage repayments?
Posted by: | CommentsI am paying €1025 per month for 30more years, it’s not easy with other high cost living bills and recession appearing, I just missed a months payment, am I the only one? anyone out therein months arrears? did the banks take action you yous?
Quick House Sale
Jan
08
Nov
22
Selling And Renting Back Your Home
Posted by: | CommentsSelling and renting back your property is a big decision. It’s important you understand the sell and rent back process and how you will benefit. Basically you are selling your property to an investor who is then going to allow you to rent it back. In many cases it is agreed that once you sell your property you will be able to rent it back for as long as you need. However, this should be agreed in writing before you sell.
Why sell and rent back?
· You would like to release equity
· Need to pay off debts
· Avoid repossession
· Divorce settlement
· Bereavement
· Emigration
Advantages of a sell and rent back are that it can prevent you and your family from being evicted should you be facing repossession. It allows you to stay in your home preventing upheaval and disruption to you and your family. If you have a large amount of debt sell and rent back can help you become debt free quickly and privately. Also if you need to sell quickly perhaps because you are emigrating or settling a divorce a sell and rent back scheme could be of use. A sell and rent back opportunity is of particular benefit to older people who no longer wish to be burdened with actually owning a home.
The sell and rent back option is not for everyone and any decision like this should be thoroughly researched. In many circumstances a homeowner can rent back their property for much less than their prevouse mortgage repayments thus relieving financial burden. This is ideal for retirees and people who need higher disposable incomes.
Real Estate Professionals
Sep
03
Caution With Mortgage Rescue Firms
Posted by: | CommentsHome owners who are struggling to keep up with their mortgage repayments are being hounded by so-called “mortgage rescue firms” who promise to save potential evictees from home repossession.
The cost of borrowing has increased considerably over the past year due to rising interest rates. Previously low mortgage repayments have increased significantly for some home owners, particularly if their mortgage contains a variable interest rate or a discount rate period that has expired.
The increase in monthly mortgage repayments has lead to a rapid rise in mortgage arrears and possession orders. Home owners who are facing repossession and eviction have become easy targets for mortgage rescue firms who promise to stop the repossession process and help the home owners to stay on their properties as tenants.
Mortgage rescue firms come in various forms – from large, national firms to small companies operating as sole traders in local areas. The mortgage rescue firm will typically offer the distressed home owner a heavily discounted price for their property and allow them to remain in the property as a rent paying tenant.
The amount of money offered for the properties varies considerably. It will usually depend on how much money the distressed home owner owes on their mortgage balance plus any arrears that have accumulated.
This amount can sometimes be less than half the value of the property on the open market.
While this may seem unreasonable, the point of the exercise is to rescue the property owner from repossession and many years of financial hardship. For many individuals, this offer is attractive enough to accept, despite the fact they will lose thousands of pounds of equity in their home.
Normally, the mortgage rescue firm will allow the occupant to remain in the property as a rent paying tenant. Unfortunately for many people who accept the offer, they fail to realise that they have no legal recourse to remain in the property long-term. Instead, they will become a rent paying tenant on an assured short hold tenancy agreement, and when the term expires they can be evicted.
This is the part of the deal that property owners who are in financial distress need to be aware of. While the repossession process may be stopped and the home owner is allowed to remain in the property for a short time, the mortgage rescue firm has no obligation to allow the tenant to remain in the property over the long term.
Quick Property Sale
Jul
08
Citizen’s Advice and Mortgage Industry Lock Horns
Posted by: | CommentsRecently the Citizen’s Advice Bureau (CAB) has criticized the Mortgage lending industry for increasing the arrears problems for borrowers due to their arrears management processes. This was backed up by a string of case studies that the CAB had drawn up totalling over 1,200 people’s stories.
The report stated that mortgage lenders are too quick to seek court possession orders against borrowers and that they should negotiate with borrowers as this is a dangerous situation for them as many borrowers when backed into a corner are resorting to the upsurge of leaseback schemes that have resulted in borrowers becoming homeless due to this process.
Between repossession orders and the leaseback sharks circling them, borrowers seem set up for a fall and the CAB says that the Mortgage lenders are doing little to combat this result. Meanwhile the Council of Mortgage Lenders has dismissed the report claiming that it was too simplistic in its criticisms.
The CML pointed out that the types of people who reach out to Citizen’s advice are normally earning lower than the national average and are by definition, those who have not managed to reach a satisfactory arrears management plan with their lender.
With both parties making claims the blame for a lot of the problems that borrowers have has been placed upon brokers not acting properly, in some cases people with large mortgage repayments, as well as other debts from credit cards, are being recommended to re-mortgage where they’d be forced to pay even more on their repayments.
The CAB has called for a list of changes including; asking the FSA and fair-trading to make sure borrowers are treated fairly and not mis-sold mortgages, as well as getting the Ministry of Justice to ensure that repossession is a last chance effort not the norm for borrowers who are struggling to meet payments.
Whether these changes are brought to pass will remain to be seen but for now at least borrowers who are struggling have had their plight made public and hopefully action will be taken so that they’re not mis-sold mortgages and that they get adequate support
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