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Could the mortgage market be starting to thaw?
There are plenty of new and improved deals coming onto the market in the last couple of weeks. Having a look at the best buy tables there are a number of fixed rate mortgage deals that have much better interest rates but more importantly there are a couple of newer higher loan to value mortgages entering the market. There are new 30% LTV deals and interestingly new 10% deposit deals. This will be welcome news for those trying to save the hefty deposits needed.
While mortgage lenders will still have their strict lending criteria in place this does look like the market is beginning to thaw. More competition especially in the higher loan to value should translate into continued improvements in the rates available to borrowers. It is however predicted that interest rates will again increase in 2010 so this may well be the time to lock into a fixed rate mortgage deal if you are of the cautious type. Rates for fixed rate mortgages may again start to climb.
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Housing Market Recovering to help Mortgage deals
The housing market has shown signs of improvement in recent months and a consensus taken by a leading company shows that house prices are now only 6.7% below the peak prices of 2007. This is a remarkable recovery and one that may entice homeowners to kick-start those plans to move again. In turn this will also help the mortgage market and customers can start to think about the types of mortgages that they can apply for.
The house prices has had a direct effect on the number of mortgage available to customers as the low point of July 2009 where only 2,177 mortgage were available has been suitably improved as the 3,000 mark was passed in June 2010. The credit crunch affected the mortgage market more than most other markets but we are seeing a steady improvement, despite figures still being considerably lower than the peak of June 2007 where over 25,000 mortgages were available to homeowners.
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