The market for mortgages is in crisis. To try to restart it, the UK nationalized Northern Rock bank will grant loans again, for a total of 14 billion pounds. The amount of the loans will be 5 billion pounds by 2009 and 9 billion pounds by 2010.
This decision will then fill that void that was created by the mortgage crisis.
The loans to be granted, however, will not be equal to or greater than 100% of the value of the property of the mortgage itself, but up to a maximum of 90%. The aim is clearly to make sure that different people can afford to buy a house.
UK house prices fell 20% in 2008 and is expected to further decrease the same for 2009.
This past Friday, February 13 Euribor rate reached its minimum value, reaching 1.94% share. The amount of the mortgage rate is not decreased, in some cases has even increased. Why?
The reason is the system that is used to calculate the 'Euribor . It 'a fairly complex mechanism that essentially creates a delay of several months on the actual calculation of the index. The rate of adjustable rate mortgages are in fact calculated on the values that were reached Euribor duranto last fall.
Therefore, if the banks were based on Euribor rates last December, the rate was 2.93%.
As if they were based on the average of the last 6 months, the rate would rise to 4.63%.
That's because the Euribor rate falls, but also the rate of the mortgage .