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Interesting Article on Polish Real Estate [33]
If you've got a 350,000zl 30 year mortgage, your repayments are pretty much what you'd be paying to rent anyway that property.
my point was that many of the sub prime victims had been sold 100% mortages and look what a mess theyve gotten into
one of the things that I really like about Polish banks is that if you have property worth 200,000 Euros and you want to secure a loan of 50,000 Euros the bank asks you how you are going to make the repayments. if you cannot prove that you can make the repayment, there is no way you will get the loan. In the UK, if you want to secure a loan on the property you can do it over the phone and get an instant answer. OK you will have to fill in a few forms later but the loan is agreed in principle over the phone in a matter of minutes because the bank knows that if you default on the repayments, they take your house. then the bank can make additional revenue out of your misery/stupidity for charging you a fortune for putting your house up for auction to pay the outstanding debt.
quite, but this comes down to borrowing sensibly.
the uk system you describe above allows for the sensible borrower to prosper more easily. i borrowed for my first property in this manner, without income, and it was a sensible investment - i have prospered.
sure, you can argue that its the bank being irresponsible for the ease at which they hand out loans... but at the end of the day... when all is said and done... the bottom line is that the burden of responsibility sits squarley on the shoulder of the borrower
if you find one please let me know :-)
lol - ill give you then number of my broker... provided youre a sensible borrower ;-)