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Unless you're selling up to move abroad I can't see how it can be a bad thing... for most people anyway.
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson
You buy a house at the peak (say £500K) on a 100% mortgage.
"Who cares, if it drops to say £300K" you say.
Your mortgage is coming to an end or is charging 2% more than the best deals. You really have to get a new mortgage.
You seek to remortgage and the new mortgage company asks for a valuation. It comes out at £300K in current market.
The new mortgage is 75% loan to value max.
This means you owe £500K and the most a lender will lend you is £225K. You need to find £275K cash to pay the lender.
You are fooked and cannot refinance.
If you sell up you lose £200K of real money.
HTH
there are alot of children masquerading as adults in this grown up world of ours. Most of them probably watched "Location, Location.." with that fat useless idiot Kirsty PoshBird, who kept telling everyone "Dont worry just borrow more and buy a bigger house, prices will never come down, and knock that wall down while you're at it"
Now they have massive loans on rapidly decreasing equity, and are, as you succinctly put it "fooked"
I myself, however, foresaw all this years ago and will welcome either plummeting or rising prices.
You buy a house at the peak (say £500K) on a 100% mortgage.
"Who cares, if it drops to say £300K" you say.
Your mortgage is coming to an end or is charging 2% more than the best deals. You really have to get a new mortgage.
You seek to remortgage and the new mortgage company asks for a valuation. It comes out at £300K in current market.
The new mortgage is 75% loan to value max.
This means you owe £500K and the most a lender will lend you is £225K. You need to find £275K cash to pay the lender.
You are fooked and cannot refinance.
If you sell up you lose £200K of real money.
HTH
But I'm looking to trade up so...
Just what the market needs.
People weren't swinging from the chandeliers’ when prices were going up by 3-4% every month yet they're gloomy about a drop of 10% over 12??? Get some perspective people ffs.
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson
People weren't swinging from the chandeliers’ when prices were going up by 3-4% every month yet they're gloomy about a drop of 10% over 12??? Get some perspective people ffs.
Surely your house will sell at a "loss", thus negating the reduction in the house you buy?
most UK are almost bankrupt anyway (legacy of flawed Blairites policies), Barclays, RBS (Sir Goodwin left), B&B (who could not raise a penny from stockholders), so mortgage applications are dropping like stones.
most UK are almost bankrupt anyway (legacy of flawed Blairites policies), Barclays, RBS (Sir Goodwin left), B&B (who could not raise a penny from stockholders), so mortgage applications are dropping like stones.
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