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Mortgages are an important part of English land law and property law. These concern, first, the common law, statutory and regulatory rules to protect the mortgagor (i.e. the borrower) at the time of concluding the mortgage agreement. Second, English law defines and restricts the process for taking possession of property in the event of default ...
In the English-speaking world this means either a general legal practitioner, i.e., an attorney or solicitor, or in jurisdictions influenced by English law, including South Africa, a (licensed) conveyancer. In the United States, real estate agents are the most common. In civil law jurisdictions conveyancing is handled by civil law notaries.
Upon making a mortgage loan for the purchase of a property, lenders usually require that the borrower make a down payment (called a deposit in English law); that is, contribute a portion of the cost of the property. This down payment may be expressed as a portion of the value of the property (see below for a definition of this term).
The U.S. housing finance regulator said on Friday it had reversed a decision to require mortgage lenders to ask what language borrowers spoke because it was not among the "most relevant and useful ...
Legal scholars and practitioners generally discuss laws that affect housing within the context of real property, landlord–tenant law, mortgage law, laws that forbid housing discrimination, laws that attempt to preserve affordable housing, etc. The following is a list of housing-related statutes in different countries.
The tide has for some years now turned against striking down every clause in a mortgage document that might conceivably impede the right to redeem. [5] The equity of redemption is itself recognised as a separate species of property, and can be bought, sold or even itself mortgaged by the holder.
A similar property with a value of $100,000 with a first mortgage of $50,000 and a second mortgage of $25,000 has an aggregate mortgage balance of $75,000. The CLTV is 75%. Combined loan to value is an amount in addition to the Loan to Value, which simply represents the first position mortgage or loan as a percentage of the property's value.
A California lawmaker is leading the charge to make undocumented residents eligible for a popular state-backed home loan program, weeks before it gives out another $250 million in down payment ...