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Building owners and property buyers are currently historically remained favorable conditions: The interest on the capital market are low and cheap housing loans accordingly. But what about existing loans? The wonder owners who have moved several years ago in their own home and lead their loans pay significantly more than it now is the case for refinancing. The answer: It depends on the individual case. Loans with fixed interest (and only those eligible for rescheduling into consideration) can not be terminated without further notice. The lower interest rates alone do not justify it.

Banks mighty long for early termination of
Roll over could be so easy if the bank would not be. Will join the cancellation of a loan with fixed-rate and the subsequent new recording of another loan only with a prepayment penalty, the erosion of the expected interest savings substantially. Is terminated without cause, banks can determine the amount of compensation in its reasonable discretion. In contrast to this design have elapsed since the (full) payment of 10 years. In this case, a free cancellation is possible, even if the fixation is longer.

Any legitimate, the termination effective
More favorable termination conditions are present, even if the loan is terminated for a legitimate interest. counts as a legitimate interest for example The sale of the property that serves as collateral. Also rejected the request of the owner to an increase in the loan for the purpose of reorganization is one of the events giving rise to a legitimate interest. Although the bank may not even exist if a legitimate interest of an early repayment charge. Then apply but from the perspective of the borrower favorable rules that are defined by statute and case law.

Prepayment penalty: banks like to count wrong
In calculating the compensation banks must then eg the interest rate on public sector bonds and do not originate from the bond. The interest on mortgage bonds are usually higher, so that compensation fails smaller. Moreover, the institutions are obliged to start from a free termination by the borrower after 10 years. You also need to take in his favor, that all possibilities would have been used to free unscheduled. In practice, banks consider the rules do not always. (Leave) is therefore worth recalculating often!

The Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA) obtained for the week ending 26 November 2010 a significant decline in the seasonally adjusted number of mortgage applications.

A decrease in the corresponding index fell by 16.5 percent. In the previous week, an increase was reported by 2.1 percent. Specifically, the sub-index fell to refinance existing loans by 21.6 percent, while the sub-index of new applications for the purchase of homes by 1.1 percent attracted.

Further details of the MBA, the average interest rate according to 30-year mortgage at 4.56 percent, to 4.50 percent in the previous week.

Marginal note: The Hypo and the hype around the Hippo

08.16.2010 | 18:45 | THOMAS Kramar (The Press)

From a Greek preposition to a tired artiodactyls: For word history of the Hypo-banks (mortgage banks).
The car, Homo, the hetero, the Eso, the pseudo, which joins Tele: Hypo in the list of ancient Greek origin prefixes substantivized, right after the hype. From whom, taken literally, should be the sheer opposite: For “hyper” means “about” – hence the hyperbole, exaggeration – “hypo” means “under”, then the mortgage, which already known in ancient Greece , was on German translated as “pledge”. Other common words with “hypo” means hypothesis (assumption) and hypochondriac: his mental illness sit under the cartilage (“Chondros”) of the ribs, thought the old man.

For English ears, is the short form “hypo” for hypo or more for an injection (hypodermic “= means under the skin), the mortgage in German ” Hypothek “, which comes from French (” dead pledge “) and such the Rolling Stones song “Sittin ‘on a Fence” in front, where Mick Jagger sings about his brave peers disdainfully: “They mortgaged up their lives.”

How can we then translate that? No matter. Institutions with which it can be done, were founded at least in German speaking countries since the mid-19th century – as a logical interface between feudalism and capitalism, in other words, as responses to the Monopoly game from the well-known problem: I have a lot of land and houses and they really do not want to lose, but I want money, and fast.

Already in 1835 King Ludwig I. founded the Bavarian Mortgage and Exchange Bank (one of the predecessors of UniCredit Bank AG), and their Austrian counterparts followed gradually, in Lower Austria (1888), Austria (1890), Carinthia (1896), Vorarlberg (1897), Tirol (1898), Salzburg (1909). The last Burgenland (1928) were, Styria (1929) and Vienna (1931).

Only the similar sound owes the introduction of the hippopotamus as the mascot of the mortgage banks in the seventies: the clumsy cute animals are as colorful plastic figures and stones of various games to the collective memory plays a generation. (Or mistaken our memories? The homepage of the Hypo Tirol states that the mortgage banks were introduced in the late eighties, the Hippo-line advertising, but Hypo Tirol have opted instead for a blue square. Witnesses to the word!)

The “hippo” in Hippopotamus actually stands for “horse”, so this would also be offered as an emblem of the institution. Probably you have chosen the more sleepy hippopotamus, because it seems comfortable (though it can be quite aggressive in kind). Probably not, because it usually the water up to his neck, and often it is.

We read today in the network: “As a welcome gift from the mascots get small savers of the Hypo Alpe Adria Bank AG, Hippo ‘, a Golden Hippo-benchmark in order to note how much of a small savers!”

Herewith recorded.