Monthly Archives: November 2009

When buying a distressed property in Spain you have a number of points at which you can try to secure the property. The first point is when the current owner is experiencing difficulties but before the bank starts any action (where a mortgage is involved). The owner may be willing to drop price significantly to […]

Bancaja the last remaining lender in Spain who as standard allowed a loan size for non-residents to be as high as 80% of purchase price if valuation fell within 70% have tweaked their scoring system so it rejects automatically any applications put to them on this basis. Only cases loaded at 70% of valuation and […]

Minimum loan level increase for re-mortgages in Spain This week on top of rate increases the Banco Halifax Hispania announced it will be increasing the minimum  loan level for its Switch and Save re-mortgage product in Spain to € 140.000 from its current € 100.000. As this product remains, the most cost effective route to […]

This week further to my comments on Low Rate Spanish Mortgages and Dominion Credit, I received a correspondence from a client who has had experience of dealing with them. It would appear my concerns about their Spanish Lending facilities have some validity and there remain many unanswered questions about these two companies. The comments from […]

Mortgages in Maroc and Cabo Verde International mortgage solutions announced today they are finally raising the white flag and surrendering on mortgages for people buying in Morocco and Cape Verde. Why are IMS pulling out of arranging mortgages in Cape Verde Cape Verde banks are volatile, unreliable and have no set criteria’s. What you are […]

From 9th of November Banco Halifax Hispania will be increasing margins above the Euribor which they charge clients for Spanish mortgages. Halifax are now distinguishing not only between rates applied for interest only but also against loan size and whether 12 month or 1 month Euribor is selected. The pricing is somewhat complicated making decision […]