Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Trading Property

With the speculative nature of market now in favor of borrower, more and more finance institutions and banks are coming with easy loans like never before. Hoardings displaying easy loans can be seen splashed anywhere and everywhere. The conditions sound too good and too simple to be true. Property has never such an easy ball from as far as one can recall. The lenders are devising innovative more accurately drooling strategies and competitive rates obviously based on realistic valuations to make the Loan to Value (LTV) immensely attractive to the prospective borrowers.
The good thing about Banks offering finance to buy property in Dubai is that laws here are in favor of the customer and the repossession of property in the event of nonpayment of next installment is not so easy, making only those lenders with consolidated positions to enter this market.
With the rapidly diminishing breed of cash down payment buyers’ developers are frantically arranging bank /lender-borrower link to sell their properties. Unless the finance option is sought available it would be a tedious task to sell the property. Many real estate developers have them selves taken on self-financing and loans can be down paid in easy installments within a few years time. In the absence of bank’s intervention as in private lending, the buyer should carefully study the T&C’s and try to find the loopholes and discrepancies it is capable of causing in future.
This is paradoxical, where banks do not want to lend too much considering the dwindling profits amidst stiff competition and softening of valuations crossing swords with their need to secure a market share in the sunshine business of lending. Currently all the financers are hiking their LTV on the golden hope that self corrective market forces will care of everything sooner or later. Banks are smart finance operators, they never like to loose and till the end deem to ensure that they recover their last penny back.
Dubai real estate investors are also seeking finances from overseas lenders or begetting cash from other property income, portfolios or any other way by leveraging on property assets. It is strongly recommended for those having Created Capital Gains (CCG) in the UK not to leverage the foreign property to secure a loan at favorable rates for their Dubai purchase to save them selves from the headaches of the Inheritances (IHT) and Death Taxes. In the event of insufficient rentals, you are risking both your properties at one go. A non –domicile property holder in the UK regardless of his nationality is anyway liable for the Death Tax while the ITH can be solved with the help of a good mortgage broker so keep the two deals separate and no need to risk the UK property to finance loans on the property in Dubai.
The prospective property buyer should ensure that he has a sufficiently good pocket to finance the property in event of changes in interest rate or the lending criterion. Parallel to this the Developer/ Retailer generate active tie up with the local banks to be able to secure best deal for the customer or exploring the possibility of financing 100 percent using international lending solutions. This will not only consolidate his present position in the real estate sector but also help him stay ahead of his competitors in the property market. The interested buyers can also write to Property World ME to get unbiased property finance solutions.

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