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Secured Loans Uk - Using A Home Loan To Consolidate Your Debts

Posted on November 1, 2008 - Filed Under Finance

Home Loans, despite the current UK market conditions can still be a competitive way of raising money. Unlike the mortgage market and to some extent the personal unsecured loans offered on the high street, home loans have remained constant although a handful of providers have pulled out the market.

So how does a home loan help you to consolidate your debts?

If you live in the UK and bought a home within the last five to ten years, it is very likely that you will have experienced significant capital gains in the value of your property and with the repayments of your mortgage being taken into account, you may be sitting on a good percentage of equity.

If this is the case for you and you have also taken the advantage of the previous years low interest rates it may have been that you borrowed money on credit cards, personal loans or hire purchase agreements, because you could afford to at the time, but now are feeling the bite as lenders are increasing their rates on personal borrowings.

So you have a few thousand on credit cards, a personal loan and hire purchase on a car, so what? Well it is likely that you are now paying double figure interest rates on these commitments and if a majority of the debt is on credit cards and you are only paying the minimum payment… getting the commitments clear is gong to long and expensive.

In this situation a home loan can be extremely useful in reducing your monthly payments by consolidating your existing debts into one manageable loan. By utilising the surplus equity in your property you can raise, by way of a home loan, the cash you need to repay the more expensive debts that you may have incurred over the last few years.

The best thing to do if you are in this situation is to tailor a home loan to what your budget can afford and stick to it. Debt consolidation should be used as a last resort and you should not rack up more credit just because you can afford to again.

This article was written by Gary Taylor, a representative of Rate Hunter Limited, owners and operators of http://www.searchandapply.co.uk a UK Secured Loan Comparison Site.

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