First Mortgage
The first security registered on a property. Additional mortgages secured against the property are termed secondary. When the property is sold, the lender who issued the First Mortgage is paid first
More Glossary Terms
- Assets
- Auction
- Body Corporate
- Borrowing Costs
- Break Costs
- Bridging Arrangements
- Capital Gain
- Capital Value (CV)
- Capitalise
- Capped Loans
- Certificate of Title (of CT Reference)
- Chattels
- Commission
- Company Title
- Conditional Agreement
- Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act
- Credit Report (or Credit File)
- Creditor
- Cross Lease
- Current Market Value
- Debtor
- Declaration
- Default
- Default Margin
- Deposit
- Depreciation
- Discharge of Mortgage
- Dividends
- Drawings
- Equity
- Equity Release Mortgage(or Reverse Asset Mortgage)
- First Mortgage
- Fixed Interest Rate
- Fixed Term (or Fixed Rate Period)
- Floating Interest Rate
- Freehold
- GV or Government Valuation
- General Loan