Applying For Remortgages and Homeowner Loans Now Will Provide You with the Funds before Christmas

Christmas is of course an important event in the annual calendar of Christians as it is when the whole of the Christian world celebrates the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

People always have the desire to prepare their home for Christmas to have their property looking at its very best. In general more people decorate their homes just before the festive season than at any other time of the year including even such times as the height of summer.

This is also a very popular time of year for people to really feel the desire to spruce up their homes by, for example, fitting a new kitchen, having new carpets or hardwood flooring laid, water features installed in their garden, etc.

The television and newspapers advertisements are constantly reminding us that we can still order our new furniture, whether it is lounge furniture, bedroom furniture or a new dining room suite, and have it delivered before Christmas.

The main reason for this great wish to have our homes in the best condition possible is that people expect to have more visitors at this time of year than at any other.

Many people have a desire at the festive season to see friends that they have not seen for a long time. Children who have long since moved out of the parental home frequently want to spent Xmas and New Year in their family home.

People feel nostalgic at Xmas and want to spend time in the bosom of their family or with friends even ones they had almost lost contact with.

Homeowners consider it important to have their house totally spick and span.

Homeowners wanting to fit a new kitchen, buy new hardwood flooring, a new lounge suite, etc. etc. can arrange funds to carry out all the improvements they want. There is no need to arrange a home improvement loan for the kitchen, hire purchase to buy the furniture, a loan from the bank to buy the flooring and so on when with the help of remortgages or homeowner loans everything can be bought in one fell swoop as it were, and at good interest rates.

Homeowner loans and remortgages are only available to homeowners, as both are home loan products that must be secured on the available equity in the property.

Equity is the difference between the mortgage balance and the property value. If a house is valued at say £190,000 and the mortgage is £130,000 the equity is £60,000.

In the past, homeowner loans of 100% and 125% LTV were fairly readily available. LTV stands for loan to value, and the maximum LTV these days is 70% and 80% for self employed and employed applicants respectively.

Remortgages are available from a handful of mortgage lenders at 95% LTV, and another handful at 90%. However the maximum LTV with the majority of remortgages is 80%

For homeowners with a maximum LTV of 60% mortgage rates of 1.Fixed rate mortgages and remortgages are available at fewer than 3% while tracker rates are less for homeowners with good equity.

Homeowner loans are available from about 9% which is still low and enables a homeowner to really push the boat out this Christmas in presents, a little holiday, etc. in addition to upgrading their property for the start of the festivities.

However for those thinking of remortgages or homeowner loans there is no time to delay if they need the home loan prior to Xmas as neither remortgages or homeowner loans can be arranged over night.

Homeowner loans can be paid out in between two to three weeks, and this is mainly due to the fact that the borrower must be given a minimum of an eight day consideration period or cooling off period between receiving his copy credit agreement and the agreement to sign.

Remortgages take even longer, and in fact for those wanting a remortgage this side of Christmas it may already be too late, and a homeowner loan will become the product to fund the plans of the individual.