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The process of getting financing for a home can take several months. To date a loan approval is not certain that will actually receive funding. But once you approve the loan, you could rest assured. But now this is changing. If your record has changed then the bank can reverse the decision to approve you and deny you the mortgage.
What kind of change can hurt you?
Many changes. For example:
* Applying for new credit (credit cards)
* Closing accounts or credit lines
* Changing work paid a fixed salary only pays commissions
The most common financial mistake people make is to apply for new credit. To many, nor are they cross your mind that applying for a credit card (or several) can impact the mortgage application. They believe this because they say that “since the application was approved.”
What should you do?
It is best to wait until after closing to make decisions that impact your credit. If your closing date is delayed a few months you must take this into account before applying.
Please ensure you have enough money saved to meet living expenses or moving expenses without having to get more credit.
The documentation that would exist for the negotiation of a mortgage loan consists of a prospectus, the binding offer and the loan agreement itself.
The booklet is a document that financial institutions are required to make available to stakeholders, which should be informed of data related to the loan and preparatory costs of the operation. You should also inquire about the following issues:
* Maximum Loan Amount.
Term of the loan.
* Frequency of payments (monthly, quarterly, etc ….)
* Interest rate. (Fixed or variable).
* Annual nominal interest rate, if the interest is fixed or the margin over the benchmark, if variable.
* Deadline for revision of interest rate.
* Arrangement fee.
* Prepayment Commission (partial and total).
* Taxes and fees (indication of the concepts.)
* Table of installments.
* Rates and fees of professionals involved in the operation
* Other expenses.
It is advisable to gather information from various banks, so to choose that loan that is most advantageous and best fits their economic conditions for it are concepts that should be taken into account, and must be clear:
1. The interest rate may be fixed or variable:
If you choose the fixed rate, it remains unchanged over the life of the loan, so if the evolution of the market tends to rise, the consumer is protected from this increase, but if you tend to fall, may not benefit thereof. These rates, banks usually do not hire them, because the average life of a loan is to vary between fifteen to thirty years, according to economic capacity of the debtor, so that signal a fixed rate involves taking a significant risk to both the entity and the consumer. To agree a fixed rate entities require the repayment of capital are not excessively long, with a trend to ten years.
If you choose a variable rate, the total amount that will have to repay the bank will vary depending on how you do the benchmark, used to determine the interest rate.
Noted that the usual practice, combining fixed and variable during the first year the rate is fixed and the rest of the life of the loan is variable.
2. There are reference rates more or less objective, the most common applied in a loan are the Mibor, which is an interest rate set by the Bank of Spain and the Euribor that establishes the European Banking Federation, which will gradually replace MIBOR.
3. The differential is an added benefit enjoyed by the bank on the reference interest rate (MIBOR, Euribor …), the application of the percentage differential is determined by the price of the bank loan that gives the best price for a loan spread is established by applying the entity. As for the review, it is normal to take values from year to year so that if the first value of the reference rate is dated April 1, the next review it will be with the type value reference on April 1 next year, many institutions apply the review every six months. It has allocated between 0.5% and 2% above the benchmark.