The government has yesterday published the legislation which will incorporate new European regulations on mortgage lending into UK law.
These new regulations, which are set out in the EU Mortgage Credit Directive, set common standards that EU members need to meet in order to protect consumers taking out loans to buy a residential property.
The government has already introduced a number of major reforms to mortgage lending, including creating new, stronger regulators with powers to ensure people only borrow what they can afford to repay, as well as tackle any future risks to financial stability from the mortgage market at a much earlier stage.
Unfortunately, even with the stronger regulators in place to ensure that people are only taking out what they can afford to pay back, circumstances can easily change for many people. For homeowners that are struggling and need to lower their monthly costs, companies offering a remortgage broker service can assist in this.
While Britain already complies with most of these new EU rules, the legislation implementing the directive contains some changes which include:
Bringing the regulation of ‘second charge’ mortgage lending into line with ‘first charge’ mortgage lending. The government has intended to make this change for a number of years but chose to wait for these new EU rules to be implemented, in order to avoid excessive disruption to both lenders and customers.
Introducing a new set of regulations for buy-to-let lending, where the lending is to consumers rather than for business purposes. This is not expected to affect the vast majority of buy-to-let lending which is done for business purposes and is therefore not subject to the directive. An experienced Personal Loan Broker can give you more clarity on this aspect.
The changes will not come into effect until March 2016, but the government is putting these in place now in order to give mortgage lenders and customers as long as possible to prepare for them.
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