The
bad credit mortgage is often called a sub-prime mortgage and is offered to
homebuyers with low credit ratings. Due to the low credit rating, conventional
mortgages are not offered because the lender sees this as the homebuyer having
a larger-than-average risk of not following through with the terms of the loan.
Lenders often charger higher interest rates on sub-prime mortgages in order to
compensate for the higher loan default risk that they are taking.
For example anyone missed a few credit card payments, had a County Court Judgment or has previously been made bankrupt.
Typically
a bad-credit mortgage doesn’t work in conjunction with any government scheme
(ie Help to buy or Shared Ownership) and it’s unlikely to be available to
anyone who’s been made bankrupt in the past six years – unless their credit
file is now clean.
Your credit file covers all kinds of repayments, from the big ones like mortgages, car loans and credit cards, to smaller forms of credit like mobile phone contracts.
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