Most homeowners have heard of secured loans and remortgages, and also have basic knowledge about these loans, believing them to be a way by which homeowners can borrow money. However many know very little more than this, and when they need money they are unsure of whether a remortgage or a secured loan is better for them, what interest rates they both have, or how to proceed to make an application. The fact is, that there are many similarities between remortgages and secured loans, and which one is better depends on a person’s own particular circumstances.

Great benefits can be derived by a secured loan or a remortgage. Before discussing this, it is essential to explain the meaning of secured loans and remortgages. They both fall into the group of loans known as homeowner loans and this is due the fact that they require a concrete form of collateral, namely the property of the borrower.

A bad credit record can be significantly improved using a secured loan and give you a better chance of getting better deals in the future. Acquiring bad credit severely lowers your chances of being accepted for any kind of finance you may require in the future. Secured loan lenders are more likely to grant you finance if you do have a history of bad credit. It is for exactly this reason that turning to secured homeowner loans can be a real boost when trying to repair a bad credit history.

Professional finance brokers can tell you all that you need to know about secured loans and the benefits they will have. In general, all types of secured loans require some form of collateral, usually property or sometimes a car, which is put up as security and stands as a guarantee that repayments will be made. The level of equity in the property that you put up as collateral will largely determine how much you are allowed to borrow.

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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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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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Secured loans otherwise known as homeowner loans can be used for almost any purpose as can remortgages. All these three forms of secured homeowner loans can be used for almost any purpose.These purposes can be fom anything from the purchase of a car or caravan to any form of home improvements right through to debt consolidation, school fees or even to buy a second home in the sun.

Remortgages and homeowner loans can also be used for the fun things in life. These are such things as a luxury, no expense spared trip to the Big Apple.

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