Mortgages and remortgages along with secured loans are all types of loans that are secured on property. Therefore these financial products are only available to those who own their own home, and are not in rented property..

A remortgage, as the prefix clearly states, is the redoing of something and in the case of a remortgage it is the rearranging of a current mortgage.

A remortgage is a new mortgage that replaces a current mortgage.

Remortgages and mortgages are of course secured on the equity on a property, and what equity in fact is is the difference between what a house is worth and the mortgage on the property. If a mortgage is standing at–0,000 and the property has a value of 320,000, the equity in this instance is'0,000.

Before the credit crunch there was availability of 100% mortgages and remortgages with the Northern Rock advancing 125% mortgages which helped towards their downfall.

This said, some people may have heard that the Nationwide are offering 125% mortgages, and this is correct in a restricted way. This 125% mortgage is only available to existing customers who are trapped in negative equity due to the recession and they want or even require to move house perhaps through job relocation for example.

If there is absolutely no equity in their current house of the value is lower than the mortgage balance the Nationwide are granting these homeowners 125% mortgages.

Now although most mortgage lenders are more comfortable to lend at 75% LTV or even less a few grant mortgage and remortgage advances of 95% with a few more lending up to 90%.

Equity is really king at present and the better the LTV is the cheaper the remortgage rate is.If a homeowner has a 40% deposit mortgages and remortgages are available at under 2% which is the lowest ever rate.

Another major difference pre and in the middle of the recession is the situation regarding pure self certifications of self employed earnings. Only two building societies even consider self declarations now, but even at the last minute they may require further income proof in official format.

Until the start of the credit crunch in 2007 self certification of income was accepted by a large number of mortgage lenders . This in a large extent aided the collapse of the banking sector, when all these remortgages and mortgages became toxic, as many recipients of these remortgages and mortgages simply had not enough income to meet their monthly payments, and accounts fell into serious arrears.

Things in the mortgage industry have certainly tightened up.

Learn more about rmortgages then vist Champion Finance's site to ascertain the best choice of remortgage for your needs.