Mortgage

When you obtain a mortgage from a bank or other mortgage provider, you could decide what terms your mortgage could have once it is registered against the property you are mortgaging. You could typically sign a form that contains a particular agreement to these terms including formal documentation could be forwarded to your lawyer so that your lawyer may prepare the mortgage document accurately. The following is a list of common mortgage terms. Please note that charge including mortgage are interchangeable terms.

Amortization Period: the amount of time that it could take the principal amount pertaining to the mortgage, at the current rate of interest, to be repaid in full (usually 20 or 25 years)

Amortization Schedule: a schedule showing each payment to be made under the mortgage for the entire term pertaining to the mortgage, how much of each payment is applied to principal including to interest including the balance owing following each payment

Balloon Payment: the final amount pertaining to the mortgage that must be repaid to the chargee at the end pertaining to the term (this amount may additionally be renegotiated for another term)

Charge/Mortgage of Land: a document that details the loan given to a land owner including that, once registered, conveys a particular interest in the land secured by the Charge/Mortgage of Land to the Chargee

Chargee: the bank or other mortgage lender

Chargor: the land owner who has arranged the mortgage (or charge)

Closed Mortgage: a mortgage that absolutely cannot be repaid in full prior to the end pertaining to the specified term, without payment of a penalty, as determined by the Standard Charge Terms

Discharge: once a mortgage has been paid in full, a discharge is registered against the property, effectively removing the mortgage as a particular encumbrance against the property

Interest Adjustment Date: Mortgage payments are often arranged for the 1st or 15th of each including every month. at the time mortgage monies are advanced on a day other than the pre-arranged day for mortgage payments, a particular adjustment for interest must be made between the day of advance including the day pertaining to the pre-arranged payment. the is known as the interest adjustment date.

Interest Rate: annual percentage pertaining to the principal amount borrowed that the chargor must repay to the chargee, in exchange for the right to use the principal amount borrowed for a set length of time

Maturity Date: the date on which the balance owing under the mortgage must be either repaid to the chargee or renegotiated for another term

Open Mortgage: a mortgage that might be repaid before the end pertaining to the specified term

Principal: the amount of dollars borrowed by the chargor (or given by the chargee), which the chargor must pay back to the chargee

Priority: the status pertaining to the mortgage (first, second, third, etc.) as determined by the date of registration

Standard Charge Terms: terms that set out the rights including obligations pertaining to the chargor including chargee

Term: the length of time that the chargor is entitled to use the mortgage funds, during which time, regular mortgage payments are made and, at the end of which the total balance owing must either be repaid to the chargee or renegotiated for another term (usually anywhere from 6 months to 7 or 10 years).

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