In Nottingham,
people remortgage their homes for a number of reasons. The most common is that
they are looking for a better rate – if you took a fixed rate loan and then
interest rates drop you will be stuck paying high fees, but if you remortgage
you can get a lower interest rate and save a lot of money over the years.
People also remortgage to raise capital either for home improvements, to
acquire another property, to go on holiday and so on. Because remortgaging is
an easy way to raise money many people wonder whether they can remortgage their
property more than once.
The truth is that
you can remortgage as often as you like. So why don’t people remortgage more
than once if this is a quick way to raise cash: Because there are several
disadvantages of multiple remortgages:
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Lenders look at your credit history when they are deciding whether or not
they should lend you money. The more times you remortgage the more times you
are likely to get a lender to work with you because you will be in so much
debt. Not only will property lenders refuse to work with you, you may not be
able to get credit from other lenders for things such as your credit card, your
car and so on. If you want to have a healthy credit report you should not
remortgage your property more than once.
•
Each time you remortgage your home you reduce its equity value –
remember, each time you take out a loan the outstanding mortgage amount has to
be deducted from the property’s market value. Remortgaging more than once means
that you will end up with negative equity, which means, again, that lenders
will not touch you.
•
The more you remortgage the higher your debt becomes. That means that in
the end you may not be able to pay the debt and you will have to file for
bankruptcy.
•
The value of your property declines over the years and eventually, you
will not be able to get any loans on it because of its low value.
So what are your
options if you have already remortgaged?
The best thing to
do is to talk to a Nottingham re-mortgage advice service such as Mortgage
Advice Services. They will look at your particular set of circumstances and
advice you on how to proceed. MAS tailors all their solutions to the clients
needs so you can be sure that you are getting the right kind of help. Find out
more on http://www.mortgageadviceservices.co.uk/
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