What is the real definition of a mortgage
Despite increasing numbers of the population having a mortgage, it is amazing how few people actually know what they are and how they work. A mortgage home loan is not for example a standard loan, nor do rules regarding loans refer at all to it. A mortgage is a secured debt using the property that is being purchased as the security for the debt until it is fully repaid. More accurately, it is a document that protects your lender’s interest with your property itself and a legal agreement you have provided to a lender.
Mortgages have in fact changed the face of house buying because they provide the facility for the purchase without the buyer paying the full cost upfront. There are also misconceptions about how they work so below is a description of how the process works. The mortgagor who is also referred to as the Borrower (leading to the false impression that it is a loan) and the mortgagee, who is also called the Lender (again, falsely leading you to think that a loan has been agreed). The property has a lien, which is the legal ownership of the property by the mortgagee until the agreement between the two parties has been fulfilled.
The mortgagee’s money is then protected by this knowing the property is in fact security against its own debt. Being a legal contract, the lien will be lodged within the records at the county or city courthouse (or a similar public office). Ownership of the property is then yours and cannot be transferred to anyone else until you have paid off the amount required to reverse the lien. So how this works is that the mortgagor (you) owns the property completely even though the mortgagee has possession of the mortgage but not the title.
The only right that your mortgage gives to the mortgagee over your property is to sell it to recover funds in the case that you do not pay off your debt. If in the unfortunate event this happens, the process whereby the funds are reclaimed is called foreclosure. This is a legally recognized process that must take place often referred to as ‘judicial foreclosure’. Obviously there is much more to the subject than this, but these are the basic foundations upon which the mortgaging system has been constructed.
