The recession took the most dreadful toll on mortgages, remortgages and secured loans.

Secured loans fell by more than 80% of the level at which they stood at the end of 2006, and these once so popular loans fell to a shadow of their former self.

The real beauty of a secured loan lies in the fact that these secured homeowner loans can be used for any purpose providing the purpose is legal.

Homeowner loans were often used to pay for home improvements and were a good way to do improvements. Home improvement loans when arranged by an actual home improvement company have interest rates of about 25% which is extortionate. When someone wants a loan for home improvements from his own bank he needs to provide at least two estimates for the planned work. With a secured loan he will have cash in hand to do the work without any written proof of the use of the loan being required, and the interest rate will now be in the region of 9% although before the recession it was even less than this.

Mortgages which almost every consumer needs to buy a property declined as people were inclined to stay put at their current address during the recession, and as such there was not the same need for mortgages. The decline in property prices further had an adverse affect on the mortgage market.

Most homeowners are tied to their mortgage for anything from twelve to sixty months after which many used to change their mortgage lender.

Changing mortgage lender is done to obtain a lower interest rate and is called remortgaging or a remortgage.

In addition to getting a lower interest rate, remortgages have all the same uses as secured loans.

With the fall in house prices many homeowners could no longer obtain a remortgage at a really good rate of interest as low rates depend on the equity on a property.

The end of the credit crunch was expected to see secured loans as well as remortgages and remortgages returning to their former level but this hope has been futile.

The reality is that house prices are on the verge of falling again, mortgages are at their lowest ebb for nine years and remortgages are at their lowest for ten years with secured loans seeing no improvement.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 2:09 am and is filed under Finance.