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Is buying a property really cheaper than renting? Don't be so sure

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Two weeks ago a small building in Wincanton went to auction. It cost its buyer £186,000 ten years ago. At the peak of the bubble, several agents valued it at £300,000 plus.

It had been on the market for two years. Offers had been made at prices ranging from £200,000 to £250,000. All had been accepted. None had made it to exchange: none of the would-be buyers had managed to actually come up with the cash.

At auction it fetched £190,000 – and only after a very significant effort from the auctioneer to get it to its reserve. That’s a peak-to-sale-price drop of 37%.

I popped this nugget of information up on Twitter (I’m @merrynsw ) to show those who think that house prices have dropped 10% or so at most and have now stabilised, that they did not and have not.

One of the Twitter replies said that this is not the case. He would, he said, “hang his hat” on the sale I mention having been something to do with either mortgage fraud or a repossession. It wasn’t. And not only was it not, but nor were many of the others there.

The fact is that what is really happening in the lower part of the market is being covered up by the low volumes and high quality of conventional sales. Pick an area of the country and follow the sales in it on PrimeLocation.com or some such for a while. You will see that the occasional perfect house comes up. If it is on at a reasonable price it sells fast. Anything else does not – most sellers aren’t desperate enough to cut their prices to levels where ordinary buyers will buy.

So the only place that you are seeing clearing prices is at auction – where desperate sellers meet savvy cashed-up bargain hunters. And there, if the price you get is 40% below the price you might have got in 2007, you go away thinking you got pretty lucky.

That’s a house price crash – so much so it may even be that whoever bought the Wincanton flats has got himself a bargain.

Terminologies Of Home Mortgage | Articles On Insurance, Public ...

Owning your very first house for your family is very easy if you have enough money saved to purchase one on a cash basis. However, if you are like the average American, you will need to get a loan to be able to afford to purchase a house. There are different terminologies that you need to know regarding home loans that may help you in choosing the best loan that you can afford. Here are the different terminologies: me Mortgage Terminologies.

You are actually applying for a mortgage when you are planning to purchase a house on a loan. For any real estate a mortgage is a loan that you can avail in order to pay. This includes the house and any land where the house sits on. For your loan the house and the land that you are purchasing through a mortgage loan will be used as collateral. In order to cover your missed payments this means that if you are not able to make your loan payments anymore, the lending institution such as the bank who gave you the mortgage has the right to take your house and land away.

Other terminologies that you need to understand are related to the loan payments themselves. The amount that you have to pay regularly on you loan can easily be computed by a home loan calculator. However, even if you will use a home loan calculator, you must know the different terminologies associated with computing for the amount that you have to pay regularly. Here are the following terminologies:

In order to purchase the real estate of your choice the principal is the term used for the actual amount of money that you are loaning. The bank will allow you to use so that you can purchase the house that you want this is the amount of money

Interest. The interest is the amount that the bank will charge you for using their money to purchase your home. The interest is the amount that the bank will earn from investing their money on your real estate project. The interest rate given to mortgages is computed as a percentage of the principal loan amount. Interest rates placed on loans may vary from bank to bank. Larger commercial banks may offer lower interest rates on loan as compared to the smaller banks. Interest rates also depend on current economic indicators.

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