Five Criteria That Affect Your Mortgage Eligibility

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If you are applying for your mortgage, what factors are lenders going to be judging you on? It is a minefield of terms, but they are all quite straightforward. Only read this guide!

1) pay packet. It is pretty obvious when you think around, but the more money you are earning, the more a building society will be willing to lend to you. And if you are applying for a remortgage as a couple, then your joint salary can be considered, although this may not always work out the best!

Such as, if your building society offers you 3 times your salary or twice your joint wages, then if you are earning vastly more than your partner, it may be preferable to merely consider your income.

2) Existing Employment. Are you employed in a job where you have been for a few years and probably looking financially secure there? Or are you seasonally employed, self employed or merely only started a job and have a history of moving jobs every few months?

Someone who has a steady job and is potential to stay there a while and thus be able to manage the monthly repayments is going to be looked on more favourably than someone in a job that may not be there in a few months and might immediately start not there repayments.

3) Liabilities. If you currently have ample of debts, maintenance payments and other payments that you are liable for, then these will have to be factored into what the lender reasonable considers you are able to repay each month and this will reduce the maximum amount that you could borrow within your remortgage.

4) LTV - Loan To Value. Or to put it another way, how much of your own cash you are able to put down against the property that you are buying. Until the recent financial crash, some building societies were in excess of happy to actually lend you 125% of the value of the property that you are buying. Their reasoning being that in a few years your property should have increased in value by at least that much.

But these days, the maximum is more normally 90% of the value of the property, meaning that you need to be able to put down a 10% deposit at least. And the more deposit you could put down the better the interest rate you will be offered. This is for quite a easy reason. If they only lend you 70% of the mortgage and you default on your payments, there is a good chance that they will get all of their cash back, but, if you are borrowing 90% of the property's value and default, then it is more likely that when they quickly sell your property they will not raise enough to cover the remaining debts.

5) Credit Score. What is your credit history and your credit score like? Do you have stacks of debts that you are struggling to repay or an immaculate credit history showing that you handle debts and their repayments perfectly? If you have behaved with your credit in the past you will be more possible to get a favourable rate than if you have struggled with debts.

Article Source: http://depositarticles.com/

Written by Keith Lunt, of www.comparemortgagerates.co.uk. For more useful reading, call into our Mortgages Blog.

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