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-   Mortgage Terms  -

  • Advance: This is the money you have borrowed plus all the additional fees.

  • Base Rate: In the United States, this value is set by the Federal Reserve and is known as the Discount Rate or the Prime Rate.

  • Bridging Loan: This is a temporary loan that enables the borrower to purchase a new property before the borrower is able to sell another current property.

  • Disbursements: These are all the fees of the solicitors and governments, such as stamp duty, land registry, search fees, etc.

  • Pre-approval: A loan officer has pulled credit from the borrower, matched them up with a loan, and can guarantee funding for purchase.

  • Pre-Payment Penalty / Redemption Penalty: This is the amount of money due if the mortgage is paid in full before the time finished.

  • Pre-qualification: A loan officer has taken some information from the borrower, and made a tentative decision, but not verified any of it.

  • Equity: This is the market value of the property minus all loans outstanding on it.

  • First time buyer: This is the term given to a person buying property for the first time.

  • Loan Origination Fee: A charge levied by a creditor for underwriting a loan. The fee often is expressed in points. A point is 1 percent of the loan amount.

  • Sealing Fee: This is a fee made when the lender releases the legal charge over the property.

  • Subject To Contract: This is an agreement between seller and buyer before the actual contract is made.

  • Balloon loans: after a series of low payments for a fixed period of time, then the entire loan balance is due in a large lump sum.

-   Acronym  -

  • LTV:   Loan To Value.

  • DTI:   Debt To Income.

  • ARM:   Adjustable Rate Mortgage.

  • VOI:   Verification Of Income.

  • VOE:   Verification Of Employment.

  • PMI:   Private Mortgage Insurance.

  • NINA:   No Income No Asset. (No-Doc Loan)