Buying Your First Home

However, this doesn’t mean you need get stressed out and overwhelmed by the home buying (and selling!) process.

With some careful planning, patience and expert help from your Mortgage Plus broker, you will hopefully breeze through the process and be relaxing in your new home in next to no time.

Home loans, mortgages and finance.

Unless you have the good fortune to win lotto or be enormously wealthy, it is likely you will need the help of a lender or bank to borrow enough money to buy your dream home.

So – the most important step in preparing to buy your first home is to begin the process of organising the best finance for your needs and lifestyle. Your Mortgage Plus broker is as expert in identifying which of the of loans and options are best suited to you. This home loan calculator will give you a good estimation on how much you can borrow.

And it can definitely pay to use a mortgage broker to help with your loan. As the number of mortgage providers, lenders and banks in the market increases, so does the competition for your business. A mortgage broker is armed with all the latest mortgage information and offers and can quickly identify the best loan for you.

This could save you thousands in the long term and literally reduce the term of your loan by years.

Speak with one of our friendly mortgage brokers today.

Please contact us if you require any further information or would like to apply for finance:

Complete this short form online

011.327.4489 / 0861 1111 93

morne@mortgagepluscc.co.za

www.mortgagepluscc.co.za

a Further Loan against your existing property

A further loan / second bond is usually beneficial for those homeowners who bought their property a while ago. Say for example you bought your home five years ago for R500 000 and the home is now worth R 800 000, you will be able to take a further loan for the amount of R 300 000. Homeowners who are bond-free can also refinance their properties to raise some capital.

When applying for a further loan / second bond, your home will be appraised to determine its value and your credit file will be reviewed. The bank or lender will order a title report on your property to search for any liens that might appear. If the bank or lender is satisfied with all these items, the loan is likely to be approved.

Unfortunately, there will be costs involved in taking a further loan. These costs include second bond registration costs, conveyance fees and the appraisal fees. The total of these costs is usually only about 1% of your total loan amount, but must still be kept in mind. Your monthly instalments will become bigger, so make sure you can afford it before you apply for the loan.

It is advisable to use further loans for funding additional investments on your property, as this will improve the value of your property even more. With the property market in South Africa at this stage, you never know if your property’s value will rise or fall in the next few years. Your property’s value might have grown from R 500 000 to R 800 000 in the past few years but it might depreciate in the next few years, leading to negative equity.

Further loans can be used to finance renovations to your home, but some homeowners use the money to buy new cars, consolidate their debt or for other capital expenditure. This is one of the cheapest ways to access finance because home loan rates are typically the lowest of all other financing methods.

We will give you free advice on the questions you might have about the costs associated with further loans and we can help you understand the personal financial planning implications of a further loan. We will also be able to renegotiate the interest rate you are currently paying on your home loan as your loan-to-value ratio improves.

Benefits of applying for a Further Loan against your existing property

• You get fast access to a loan
• To release cash tied up in the value of your house
• Access to cash when you need it
• To use surplus cash released to reduce other expensive forms of debt
• You benefit from a low interest rate
• To restructure your home loan over the maximum period to reduce monthly cash flow
• Easy to manage

Please contact us if you require any further information or would like to apply for finance:

Complete this short form online

011.327.4489 / 0861 1111 93

morne@mortgagepluscc.co.za

www.mortgagepluscc.co.za