Equity Take-Out
Collateral Mortgages, and Why you need to be Careful!
Most mortgage borrowers don’t know what a collateral mortgage is. When a lender registers your mortgage they can either register it as a “Collateral charge” or a “Conventional Mortgage Charge”. There are several lender’s who have done Collateral only mortgages for the last 8+ years so you may very well be in a collateral mortgage without knowing it. So what does this mean to you?
- col·lat·er·al
/kəˈladərəl,kəˈlatrəl/
noun
1.something pledged as security for repayment of a loan, to be forfeited in the event of a default.
synonyms: security, surety, guarantee, guaranty, insurance, indemnity, indemnification; backing
“she put up her house as collateral for the loan”
The definition of collateral is self explanatory, however the way it works in mortgage lending is a more of a “Readvanceable Loan”. Let me explain the difference between Collateral and Conventional.
