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Woolwich have more good news for Mortgage Brokers

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Woolwich have announced changes to their 4.19% fixed rate until 31/10/2011 Mortgage product at 70% Loan to value.

The product was previously restricted to a maximum borrowing of £200,000 and a minimum borrowing of £100,000. The amendments now allow maximum borrowing of £1 million and minimum borrowing of £50,000 opening the product up to a much wider audience to the delight of Mortgage Brokers and borrowers alike.

The product remains the same otherwise with a £499 arrangement fee. The APR is 2.5% and reversion rate currently 1.99%. Based on a loan of £100,000 other applicable fee’s are a valuation fee of £295, land registry fee of £200, lender Conveyancing fee of £126 and a £35 completion fee. Early repayment charges are 3% of the outstanding loan if the mortgage is repaid before 31/10/2011.

As usual consult a mortgage advisor or mortgage broker and request a Key Facts Illustration about the mortgage prior to making a decision.

Think carefully before securing other debts against your home. Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage or any other debt secured on it. We do not usually charge a fee for mortgage advice although you do have the option to pay up to 1.5% of the loan amount. Some buy to let and commercial loans are not regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

Mortgage Calculators for maximum loans are a waste of time

Friday, July 31st, 2009

The next part of my why you should use a mortgage broker theme of the week is the humble affordability calculator.

We do a little pay per click advertising on the various search engines, this is no secret. But it surprised me to see so many hits coming through the somewhat spurious term “mortgage calculator” and it occurred to me that rather than this being people searching to find out what their monthly payment would be (as pretty much everyone has one of these calculators) it is probably people looking to see how much they can borrow.

If this is the case and you are reading this article because you were looking to find that out let me explain something, calculators that purport to tell you what the maximum you can borrow is are a waste of your time. Plain and simple.

The reason is this, every lender will take a multiple of your income and your partners if applicable or a percentage of your gross or net income and the sum will be different with ever lender. They may then deduct your loans and other credit commitments (but the way they do this will also be different with every lender). They may deduct a figure for each dependent child you have, and they may use their standard variable as a basis for affordability or the product rate you will be borrowing if they use a rate to calculate it at all.

Clearly a calculator cannot be set up to work out the maximum based on all the different methods of assessment used, so they use a “best case” method to give you a rough idea. This might seem useful but if the best case happens to be a bit optimistic it could cause you some big headaches and if it is woefully underestimated then you might miss your dream home based on poor information. The only calculators that are reliable are those on lenders websites, but they only work for that lender and will often be based around your credit score anyway which you cannot predict.

Affordability assessment is very complex and is an ever changing landscape, so if you want to know what the maximum you can borrow is speak to a mortgage advisor as that’s what we’re here for.
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Think carefully before securing other debts against your home. Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage or any other debt secured on it. We do not usually charge a fee for mortgage advice although you do have the option to pay up to 1.5% of the loan amount. Some buy to let and commercial loans are not regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

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