The world of secured home loans in general can be confusing to the layman.

The main thing that these home loans have in common is that they are all forms of loans that need property as security. What is being referred to is mortgages, remortgages and secured loans.

Let us start with mortgages. A mortgage is a home loan used to purchase a property. This can be a first house purchase whereby someone requires a mortgage to become a homeowner for the first time, having up to that point stayed in rented property or for younger people having lived with parents.

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Unsecured loans are a form of loan that requires no security whatsoever.This means that someone living in a home that they do not own can apply. An individual living with his or her parents is eligible for an unsecured loan..

As unsecured loans are not backed up by any form of security whatsoever the loan lender can easily lose the money if the person taking out the loan refuses to pay back the loan.

As the loan lender is taking a risk by advancing unsecured loans it means that their interest rates are high.

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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.

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Remortgages are a homeowner loan specifically for homeowners as remortgages must be secured on the asset of a residential property.

A remortgage involves paying off the existing mortgage on the property and replacing it with a new mortgage, ie. a remortgage, with a different mortgage lender.

There are like for like remortgages which means that the new mortgage is for the exact same sum as the one that it is replacing, and the remortgaging is to achieve a lower interest rate, and nothing more.

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Sometimes life is a ball, and at other times it can be a worrying place to be, and never more so than since the economic down turn.

Many UK citizens have seen their household incomes reduced by working fewer hours each week at the request of their boss, or having to accept a pay cut. The most unfortunate have even been made redundant. A high percentage of those in employment have been living in the fear of redundancy.

However there are still many sectors of society completely unaffected financially by the economic gloom and doom surrounding them. Policemen, NHS staff including surgeons, and other medical staff, educational staff, and police personnel have not been affected.

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It is only homeowners who are eligible to apply for homeowner loans A.K.A. secured loans.

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.

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For years before the recession loans of all kinds were available, and in fact loan lenders were advancing loans as if the product was going out of fashion.

Even tenants could obtain loans from companies such as Provident who are still in business and advancing loans to homeowners and tenants alike. A tenant is of course a non homeowner.

The problem with Provident is that the maximum loan has always been small. At present the maximum loan available for a first time borrower is 100, hardly a sum that would buy much nowadays.

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Homeowner loans are loans that are secured on the equity of a property, and if you have lived in the property for some time the equity should be considerable.

The fact that these homeowner loans are secured loans gives the lender the confidence to grant homeowner loans at good rates of interest and makes them not too fussy about the purpose of the loan. In fact homeowner loans can be used for virtually any legal purpose.

Homeowner loans are a great way for example of buying an expensive car or a motor home. Of course for both these vehicles it is of course possible to obtain a loan from the dealership, but in the case of cars the maximum repayment period is usually three years or sometimes four years at the most.

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When we are talking about loans UK we are thinking solely about a form of loan only available in The United Kingdom.

There are all kinds of loans UK, and some of these are car loans UK, boat loans UK, all types of unsecured loans UK, and lastly there is the secured variety of loans UK, commercial or business loans UK, and so on and so forth.

Most people regard loans UK obtained to purchase such goods as cars to be unsecured loans when in fact the car itself is the security offered in this instance.

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If you find yourself struggling badly financially in these difficult economic times as many do there is help at hand.

There is really no point in constantly robbing Peter to pay Paul when you can get out of your painful situation.

After ill health the most dreadful of human conditions is worrying about your finances. The worry about lack of money can affect your mental health so badly that you can even feel physically ill as well.

The trouble with many people is that they look at all their bits and pieces of debt as totally seperate items. Each time that they take out a credit card, and think that they can afford the repayment on that particular credit card it slips their mind that it is in fact only the latest in a list of five other credit cards. This new credit card with a limit of 6,000 which if run up to the limit would cost 180 might well be affordable in isolation, but when added to the other credit cards with balances totalling almost 40,000 the picture is very different.

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