Typical home Equity Loan interest Rates

New buildings are usually offered with a bonus of up to 25% in comparison to similar second-hand real estate.

Therefore, it is in the buyer's interest that home values rise by at least 20% before sale, otherwise they would be in equity. The government is classifying'affordable housing' as living outside London at a cost of 250,000 (within London this rises to 400,000). In this example we will therefore use the number 250,000 £.

Reconstruction ownership usually does not come with rugs, drapes, landscaping, etc. and the principal costs of providing this would usually be in the order of £5,000 plus. Then the government will make available an equity loan of up to 20%, and the purchaser must be able to qualify for a minimum 75% mortgages.

In order to make a comparison on a like-for-like basis, we are assuming that the 5% investment will also be raised at typical interest rates. This could be lent by the Bank of Mum and Dad as an equity draw from their own home mortgages and would therefore charge the typical interest charge. Helping to buy an equity loan means that the government holds a 20% share of your real estate.

When the value of the real estate increases (which you must abstain from in order to prevent equity losses), the equity loan also increases, which means that you will pay back more than the initial loan amount. The typical long-term rise in real estate prices over the last 25 years (the typical maturity of the mortgage) has been over 250%, which means that the initial 20% equity loan will rise over 25 years to the 50% initial sales proceeds equivalence.

Equity loan is interest-free for the first 5 years, then interest is due at 1.75% and increases by RPI + 1% yearly. That means that if you took out a help to buy equity loan today, when the interest is due, you would pay interest on the equity loan of 1.75%, which rises to 4.06% in the 20th year, an annual mean of 2.91% over the 20 year period.

That is in additon to the above (potential and necessary to prevent equity losses) increase in value of the equity loan. The typical 25-year term for mortgages is around 5. 5%, with 1,000 in package charges. In this example, for the purpose of this example, we are ignoring any repayment penalty that would be incurred to switch to another home loan or if the home is resold before the home loan is paid back.

Purchasers usually pay a further 1,000 for legal expenses and evaluation commission. Postage tax is currently 2% from £125,000 to £250,000, in this example £2,500. Service and repairs are at the expense of the proprietor, as is building security. The typical expenses are variable, but long-term expenses of about 1% of the initial annual sales charge are typical.

For the purpose of this example, however, we are assuming only 0.5%, since hopefully a new building will have lower levels of servicing and repairs than a used building (not necessarily the case, but a reasonable guess for illustration). How much is the real price of purchasing a 250,000 pound new building with an equity loan?

This £250,000 new house comes with a 20% bonus, so a similar second owner home would be valued at £208,000. The typical rents in the southeast of England (excluding London) are around 5%, which corresponds to a month's rents of £870. A 3% RPI used up, then a typical leaseholder would be paying 424,000 in lease over 25 years.

Consequently, the real money differential between purchasing a 250,000 new building using an equity loan and leasing a similar used home is 259,100 pounds over 25 years. Yes, the benefit is that you would own your house after 25 years, but at an additional charge of £259,100.

That' all well and good if you can afford to buy, but if not, why should the rental - and storing £259,100 over 25 years - be seen as second best?