Housing loan rates are showing no signs of falling, with surveys showing that the average rate for a thirty-year, fixed-rate housing debenture stands at 4%. These rates are only expected to go up as the economy is starting to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Freddie Mac, the average rate for a thirty-year, fixed-rate debenture will hit at least 5% next year.
If a person is planning to purchase and take out a housing debenture to finance it, what can they do to increase their odds of qualifying for the lowest IR (interest rate) possible? It all comes down to their credit rating or score, how much in arrears the borrower has, and how much of a DP they can afford. These are important factors that lending firms look at when determining how likely an individual is to make their monthly amortization on time.
They are also the factors that will have a significant impact on the IR lending firms assigned to the borrower. If individuals want to beat the IR hikes that might be coming in this year, people will need to turn themselves into the kind of borrowers that present the least amount of financial risk. Those …
