Secured loans and remortgages have many similarities starting with the fact that they are both types of home loans secured on the equity of a property, but it is the secured loan we are discussing at the moment.

What is meant by equity is really the gap between the balance of a mortgage and the value of the property on which the mortgage is secured.This means that the equity on a property would be 100,000, if the value of the property is 230,000 and the mortgage secured on the property is-0,000.

Before the credit crunch secured loans were available very commonly at 90% to 95%, and most secured loan lenders granted secured loans at these equity margins.

There were even secured loan lenders willing to advance secured loans to self employed applicants up to 100% LTV and these secured loans were granted on the basis of self certifications of income , and up to a maximum loan value of 75,000.

Secured loans were granted as if they were going out of fashion , and although sometimes the underwriting criteria was perhaps a little slack at times, these secured loans were a great useful product enabling secured loan applicants, both employed and employed to obtain a loan to use for a number of purposes.

Nowadays self declarations have all but ceased and back up proof in the form of an accountant’s letter or even full accounts are now required, leading to many would be secured loan applicants being refused the secured loan they seek and which they can comfortably afford to pay back.

Last month Black Horse changed their maximum LTV to 80% compared to the previous 70%, some hope was felt throughout the ailing secured loan industry.

For the past two years or so equity has been king as it were, although status also counts.

With the further announcement this week that the secured loan lender from Cardiff, announcing an increase in their LTV from 70% to 80% it is to be hoped that the secured loan industry will experience a much needed revival.

Let us hope that 2010 will be the best year for secured loans for some time.

Learn more about secured loans. Stop by Champion Finance’s site where you can find out all about secured loans and what they can do for you.

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