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Subsidies for fixed rate mortgages

December 1st, 2008

The fixed-rate loans are facilitated with a peculiarity: the period that the rate prescribed remain unchanged throughout the period provided for in the contract. Often these loans have special features:

  • The loan sought is for the purchase of the principal and for all dwelling of the owner.
  • The loan amount must be less than or equal to 65% of the estimated value of the technical expert in charge.
  • The repayment period must be less than 30 years and the payment of installments shall be on a monthly basis.

Of course these are only guidelines. Some banks, in fact, could further limit the granting of such loans, or tolerate the most flexible on the basis of their management policy.

In anti decree, the technicians of the House have indicated some differences between variable rate loans and loans made at a fixed rate. According to scholars, the decree provides facilities for the “variable”. The disappointment of all those left behind with the rate and pay fixed rates normally around 6-7%, is likely to develop into many instances the administrative judge to highlight the disparity of treatment.

Thus, in these days the Parliament at work: the aim is to achieve changes’ agreed of anti-crisis decree. The Northern League calls attention to the borrowers at fixed rate (and not just for those with variable rate) and for batches Iva. There may be other 2-3 billion to be added.

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Savings of 10 percent with variable mortgages

November 24th, 2008

The decree anti certainly will give a breath of fresh air to a number of families. Who has entered into a variable rate loan will have advantages.

Article 2 of Decree Law 185 passed by the government against the crisis concerning the contribution of the State for 2009 to include the rate of real estate loans at variable rates within and making new loans must have the ECB reference rate.

Taking into account funding by 100 thousand Euros concluded in September 2005 (before the rise in rates) in the 3 months Euribor rate plus a spread of 1, 1% (the average parameters used in the technical report Decree) and applying the ceiling of 4%, the rate of January of a twenty-year loan would amount to 613 Euros compared to 676 Euros paid in November.

It seems however that the decree is not clear in every part. The technicians of the Chamber noted that neither the rule nor the accompanying report will consider the claims in relation to objective reasons under which the intervention of support is gone exclusively for people who have signed a floating rate loan. For this reason the mechanism of protection for variable rate mortgages in the decree law introduced anti could result in “unequal treatment of the legislature in relation to fixed-rate borrowers.”

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Subprime mortgages, financial crisis and real economy

November 17th, 2008

That subprime crisis had an impact on real economy could imagine, but dared not speak. After the failures of banks and layoffs, it is up to the real estate and automotive.

In California, Mountain House, a town where 90 percent of homes worth less than the loan to be paid every owner has debts of at least 122 thousand dollars more than the value of the property.

Very striking fact, many of the people, according to the loan I, will be forced to pay an installment in 2015 an incredible 12 thousand dollars a month.

The CEOs of General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler have asked Banking Committee yesterday the U.S. Senate a plan to save the car.

The summits of the ‘Detroit Three Sisters’ rise to Capitol Hill to ask for immediate help, without which their survival is at risk. Explain to the Senate Banking Committee that the failure of one of the three companies could lead to a systemic risk.

Richard Wagoner: Here’s what the ad for General Motors, Richard Wagoner:

The damage to the economy would be far worse for that we need. It is not just to save Detroit: to save the U.S. economy, even at risk because there are 3 million jobs since the collapse of one of the trigger a domino effect.

In Europe the level of crisis that exists in America has not yet been felt, but let us not forget that situations of alarm have not spared the German bank IKB el ‘English Northern Rock.

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Citigroup: layoffs to 5,000, yet subprime mortgages

November 10th, 2008

The tension in the U.S. credit market has peaked with the outbreak of defaults on subprime mortgages.

The subprime loans, which in previous articles we discussed, are loans granted to customers as “high risk”. They are called subprime loans because of their greater risk and subject to which the creditor.

The problem was a result of loans granted to persons insolvent. But who are these? In a few have mentioned that it is precarious.

A mortgage given to these workers is a mutual risk and being such, to cushion the risk, banks have securitized and sold as securities.

If most workers are precarious, the banks were forced to provide loans to precarious. This explains the speculative bubble of subprime: the precariousness of work and inadequate labor policy.

This is a dog that bites its tail, because the work becomes due and also to the crisis: the U.S. banking group Citigroup wants to cut up to 50 thousand jobs, reducing the number of employees to 300.

All this was reported by CNBC television station, that the ceo of the Group, Vikram Pandit, has decided to implement a blockade of the turnover and redundancy measures that cover all sectors and geographical areas of activity of the bank.

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The mutual bank Credem

November 3rd, 2008

The loan is a financing medium and long term granted for the purchase, construction or renovation of a building (usually the main house), or to acquire or restructure the second house.

It is not easy to decide whether to take out a loan at a fixed rate or variable. The fixed rate is a certainty for those not familiar with the markets and fears a rise in interest rates.

For those who do not want the certainty of fixed rate (fixed rate and the expo are not fixed), and want a cheaper rate compared to fixed rate, here is a type of loan that meets these requirements, shifting the effects of possible increases on ‘lengthening of the duration.

Credem bank offers a loan structured with the technical form of the rate, the rate fixed for the entire repayment period and the duration variable, the effect of any changes in the rate may decrease (in case of decrease in the rate) or increase ( if the rate increases). The duration can be increased up to 5 years compared with the initial period.

The choice of the rate is a key factor for the future peace of the borrower, a decision would in fact has an impact on the cost of financing (total interest payable) and the family budget.

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