{"id":989,"date":"2010-09-29T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esmartproducts.co.uk\/?p=989"},"modified":"2010-09-29T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T09:37:30","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Did you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mortgage facts<\/h2>\n<p><strong>First-time Buyers<\/strong><br \/>\nA first-time buyer is a potential house buyer who has not  previously owned a property. As a first-time buyer you need to consider  which sort of mortgage you should use and how you should repay it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad Credit Mortgages<\/strong><br \/>\nA bad credit mortgage allows a borrower with a bad credit rating  to take out a mortgage, a bad credit mortgage usually carries higher  interest rates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad Credit Remortgages<\/strong><br \/>\nA bad credit remortgage is a way a borrower with a bad credit  rating can take out a new mortgage with a new mortgage lender even  though they are not moving properties. Often used to free up equity, a  bad credit remortgage often carries higher interest rates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy-to-let Mortgages<\/strong><br \/>\nA buy-to-let mortgage is a mortgage you can utilise to assist in  the purchase of a residential property that you intend to let rather  than occupy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commercial Mortgages<\/strong><br \/>\nA commercial mortgage is a mortgage loan issued for the purpose of  buying property, and is typically borrowed by companies or  organisations to secure business premises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixed Mortgages<\/strong><br \/>\nA fixed mortgage also known as a fixed-rate mortgage means your  monthly repayments will remain constant for the fixed mortgage term,  regardless of the standard variable interest rate in the market place.  The benefit of a fixed-rate mortgage is that you will know exactly what  your repayments are however if the standard variable rate falls below  the level at which you fixed you could end up paying more than the  market rate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flexible Mortgages<\/strong><br \/>\nA flexible mortgage is the facility to make extra payments when  you have extra money. You may also be able to reduce monthly repayments  or even take repayment holidays, although you will normally have to  build up a reserve through making overpayments before this arrangement  is allowed. Such mortgage rates are usually offered on a daily interest  basis. Flexible mortgages typically provide a loan drawdown facility  that allows you to borrow extra funds at a set predetermined rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage facts First-time Buyers A first-time buyer is a potential house buyer who has not previously owned a property. As a first-time buyer you need to consider which sort of mortgage you should use and how you should repay it. Bad Credit Mortgages A bad credit mortgage allows a borrower with a bad credit rating&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/?p=989\" title=\"ReadDid you know?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suretyfp.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}