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Friday, 17 April 2009

Negative Equity Restricting House Sales

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has warned that the rising level of negative equity is restricting houses sales in the UK. There are now 2 million homeowners with either negative equity or too little equity to finance a move.

Few lenders are currently willing to provide mortgages to those with a deposit of less than 10%. The CML estiamtes that there are 600,000 mortgage holders with less than 5% equity and another 500,000 with between 5% & 10%.

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