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The credit crunch affected the home loan sectors of remortgages, mortgages and secured homeowner loans to an enormous extent.

Homeowner secured loans declined rapidly since the beginning of 2007, and ended at a level of less than 20%.

Homeowner loans were on of the most popular ways of homeowners to obtain a low interest loan which they could use to do or buy just about anything their little heart desired.

These secured loans were often taken out to buy a car for example enabling the borrower to have cash in hand to buy the car fom a private person or a car auction saving up to a third or more on the purchase price.Instead of a Ford the secured loan borrower could perhaps buy a Mercedes Benz privately at the same cost as a Ford from a car dealer ship.

Another financial product that dropped dramatically was mortgages which is what people need to buy a property unless they are cash buyers and these are few and far between. Many preferred to remain in the same property rather than move due to uncertainty about job security, etc. Mortgages were also affected by the fall in the price of properties.

Most homeowners are tied to their mortgage for anything from twelve to sixty months after which many used to change their mortgage lender.

Changing mortgage lender is done to obtain a lower interest rate and is called remortgaging or a remortgage.

In addition to getting a lower interest rate, remortgages have all the same uses as secured loans.

The rates available for remortgages is linked to good equity in the property to be remortgaged, and the fall in the value of property lead to a great decline in remortgages.

The end of the credit crunch was expected to see secured loans as well as remortgages and remortgages returning to their former level but this hope has been futile.

Remortgages are at their lowest level for more than ten years while mortgages have never been so out of favour since March 2001, and secured loans are still struggling.

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