FSA Annouce mortgage affordability test plan

The FSA, in its mortgage market review, today outlined a series of proposals for increasing regulation in the mortgage market including mortgage affordability tests.

Borrowers face a Mortgage affordability test from lenders amid plans by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to step up the regulation of home loans.

Self-certification mortgages will be banned under the proposals with lenders required to verify borrowers' incomes.

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Debt and credit ratings - does it affect other people?

Debt and credit ratings - does it affect other people?


Q: Can your poor credit rating from debt impact on other people in your house and if so what can i do about it?

A: As a rule yes, if someone living in a house has a poor credit rating, then it will normally affect everybody else in the house. This typically happens in flats because when firms carry out the credit check, it’s on the address not the person. Therefore, if previous residents have had bad credit ratings, it will affect everyone else in the whole block. Don’t despair though, as with all things there is a way around it.

Q: Surely its done on the individual not the property?

A: You would think this would be the case and in a way the answer to this is yes – checks are done on the individual as well. However, when taking into account the suitability of an individual for credit, creditors will take into account the address lived at for a person for the last 3 years.

Q: What Happens if i am in this situation as described above?

A: For those of you who have a good credit rating but live in houses or flats and are either affected by either the previous occupants or those living with you, then to help yourself with credit applications, Contact the Data Protection Registrar (DPR) in Cheshire.

Write to him asking for a Notice of Disassociation from the person or persons that are blighting your application. What this means to you is that when a company does a credit check on your address – they will see all the adverse information, but as long as none of it has your name on it, they will ignore all the other named people – you will not be blighted by those before you.

Before writing to the DPR, get a print out from Experian, so that you can list all the names of the people who blight you, so the DPR can put all the names on the Disassociation list.


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