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The rate is not the cost.

Home loans, balance transfers, loans against property, top-ups and business finance — arranged on the total cost of borrowing rather than the number in the advertisement. Loans are arranged, not lent.

Six kinds of borrowing

Start with the one you are weighing.

Each of these is assessed the same way — on what it costs across the full tenure, and on what would happen to the household if the income servicing it stopped.

Home loan Balance transfer Loan against property Top-up loan Business loan Loan protection cover

Loans are arranged, not lent

Elite Wealth Associates & Services arranges finance with lenders. We do not lend. Every sanction, interest rate and term rests with the lender and is subject to their own credit assessment.

Rates move, and are not ours to fix

A floating rate follows an external benchmark. Nothing said in a conversation or written on this page is binding until it appears in a sanction letter issued to you by the lender.

Nothing here is an offer of credit

This page describes how we assess borrowing. It is not a quotation, an approval, or a commitment to arrange finance on any particular terms.

We introduce and submit; we do not lend. Indicative rates, fees and eligibility norms differ by lender and change without notice, so we do not publish them here.

How we read a loan

Six things that decide what it actually costs.

The instalment is the number a lender leads with. The total cost is the number that decides, years later, whether the loan was a good one.

Processing and documentation fees

Charged up front, sometimes as a percentage of the sanction and sometimes as a flat amount, often with a floor and a ceiling. Ask what is refundable if the sanction does not come through, and get the answer in writing.

Tenure

A longer tenure lowers the instalment and raises the total interest paid. Both are true at once. The right tenure is the shortest one whose instalment you could carry in a bad year, not in a good one.

Fixed or floating, and the benchmark

A floating rate is an external benchmark plus a spread. The benchmark is the market's; the spread is the lender's, and the spread is what you are actually negotiating. On a fixed rate, ask how long it stays fixed and what happens after.

Prepayment and foreclosure

Whether you may pay ahead, how often, whether it shortens the tenure or reduces the instalment, and what it costs. Restrictions on prepayment charges do not apply to every loan — check that yours is one of the ones they cover.

Bundled products

Sanctions arrive with insurance and fee-bearing extras attached, sometimes financed into the loan itself. Some are worth holding on their own terms. None should be accepted merely because it came in the same folder.

Legal, valuation and statutory costs

Legal opinion, technical valuation, stamp duty, registration and the charge created on the property. Paid once, easily left out of a comparison, and for exactly that reason usually left out of one.

01 — Home loan

The longest cheque you will ever write.

Usually the largest and longest commitment a household takes on. Everything in it compounds — the rate, the tenure and every fee, across decades.

A sanction is not a rate. It is a set of terms: how much, for how long, on what security, at what spread over which benchmark, and with what conditions attached. Two offers carrying the same headline rate are frequently not the same loan at all.

We put the offers side by side on total cost — instalment, fees, benchmark and spread, prepayment terms, and whatever has been bundled into the sanction. Then we tell you which one we would take, and why. Where the honest answer is that your existing lender should simply be asked to reprice, that is the answer you will get.

The property is assessed as strictly as the borrower is. Title, approvals and valuation are the lender's own, and a clean file moves faster than a persuasive one.

Size the cover against the loan

Buying, building or improving

Home loan

Finance secured against the property, repaid over a long tenure. The lender assesses the borrower, the income and the property title separately, and all three have to hold.

What we check first

  • Eligibility built from documented income and existing obligations before any application is made anywhere
  • The benchmark the floating rate is tied to, and the spread the lender has set over it for you
  • Total cost across the full tenure — fees, insurance and statutory charges included, not the instalment alone
  • Prepayment and part-payment terms, and whether prepaying cuts the tenure or the instalment
  • Title, approvals and valuation, because a query on the property delays the file as surely as a query on you
  • The co-applicant position, and what it does to both people's future borrowing capacity
Every sanction, rate and term rests with the lender and is subject to their credit assessment. We prepare the file; we do not approve it.

02 — Moving and adding

Moving a loan, and adding to one.

Both are routine. Both are worth doing arithmetic on first, because a saving is only a saving once the cost of the move has been subtracted from it.

An existing loan

Balance transfer

Moves the outstanding balance of a running loan to another lender on new terms. The gain comes from a lower rate over the tenure still remaining — and it is a gain only after fees, legal work and a fresh charge on the property are paid for.

What we check first

  • The tenure remaining, because a transfer late in a loan's life rarely recovers its own cost
  • Processing, legal and valuation costs at the new lender, and any foreclosure cost at the old one
  • Whether the new rate is set on benchmark and spread, or is an introductory figure that later resets
  • What your current lender would do if simply asked to reprice — often the cheaper and faster move
  • Whether the transfer quietly restarts a tenure you had nearly finished paying
On a running loan

Top-up loan

Additional borrowing on an existing secured loan, usually priced closer to the home loan than to unsecured credit. It is convenient, and the convenience is precisely what makes it easy to borrow more than the purpose deserves.

What we check first

  • What the money is for, and whether that purpose should be secured against your home at all
  • The tenure of the top-up against the tenure still running on the base loan
  • Whether the combined outstanding stays inside the lender's limit against the property's assessed value
  • The effect on your total monthly outgo in a month where the income is short
  • Whether the sum assured on your protection cover still exceeds the new total debt

03 — Loan against property

Security you already own.

Raises money against a residential or commercial property you own, for a purpose the lender permits. It is cheaper than unsecured borrowing because the risk has been moved onto your building.

Against a property you own

Loan against property

Secured borrowing against residential or commercial property, priced below unsecured credit and written against a charge on the asset. Tenures are typically shorter than a home loan and the end use is documented.

What we check first

  • The lender's own valuation, and the proportion of it they will actually sanction
  • End-use documentation — permitted purposes vary by lender and are enforced, not assumed
  • Whether the property is self-occupied, let out or jointly owned, and who therefore has to sign
  • Existing charges on the title, and how long releasing them will really take
  • Tenure and instalment tested against income in a poor year rather than an average one
  • What happens to the family if the property has to be sold — asked before the charge is created, not after

The rate is lower for a reason. The lender is not taking a view on you alone. It is taking a charge on a building, and if the loan is not serviced, the building is what answers for it.

That is not an argument against the product. It is an argument for being certain about repayment before the charge exists. The sum sanctioned is a proportion of the property's assessed value — the lender's assessment, not your estimate and not the asking price on a similar flat nearby.

We will say plainly when this is the wrong instrument: when the need is short term, when the income servicing it is uncertain, or when the property is the family home and there is no second one.

A charge on a property is easy to create and slow to remove. It is worth an hour of arithmetic beforehand.

04 — Business loan

Borrowing that has to pay for itself.

Working capital, term finance and equipment funding for owner-run firms. Business credit is assessed on the accounts, the banking and the security offered — and the paperwork is where most applications are lost.

A business loan is judged on three things: what the filed accounts show, what the bank statements show, and what security is on offer. Where the three agree the sanction is straightforward. Where they do not, no amount of explanation in a meeting will reconcile them.

Most declines we see are documentary rather than financial — filings out of date, banking that does not reflect the turnover claimed, or an application made to a lender whose norms never fitted the business. We look at all of it before anything is submitted anywhere, because every declined application is recorded and every record is read by the next lender.

Whether the borrowing is worth taking at all is a separate question, and it is the one we ask first. Credit that funds an order already won is a different proposition from credit that funds an expectation.

Owner-run firms

Business loan

Working capital limits, term loans and equipment finance — secured or unsecured depending on the lender, the amount and the tenure.

What we check first

  • Filed accounts, returns and banking consistent with one another before anything is submitted
  • Whether the requirement is working capital or a term loan — they are not interchangeable
  • Security offered, and whether the personal and business balance sheets are being merged by default
  • Tenure set against the cash cycle the borrowing is meant to bridge
  • Every fee, charge and covenant in the sanction letter, read line by line before signature
  • Cover on whoever the business cannot trade without, and on the premises and stock behind the security
An adviser and a client reviewing a document across a desk
The file is prepared before it is submitted. A declined application is a permanent record, and the next lender reads it.

05 — Loan protection cover

A loan and a term policy are the same decision.

Seen from one side you are borrowing. Seen from the other, somebody will have to keep paying if you are not there. We size the two against each other, so a family is never left servicing debt it cannot carry.

A sanction creates an obligation that outlives the person who signed it. The instalment does not stop. The lender's charge does not lapse. The household's income may have just halved. That is the whole of the argument, and it does not need decorating.

The remedy is arithmetic rather than sentiment. Cover at least the outstanding balance, for at least the tenure remaining, and revisit it as the balance falls. A reducing-cover policy tracks the loan down. A level term policy does more and costs more. Which is right depends on whether this loan is the only obligation or one of several.

Lenders frequently offer a cover of their own alongside the sanction, financed into the loan. Sometimes it is competitive. Frequently the same sum assured is available for less on a separate policy — one that belongs to you rather than to the lender, and that does not need replacing if you move the loan. You are entitled to buy that cover wherever you choose, and the sanction does not depend on where you buy it.

How term cover is sized

Alongside every sanction

Loan protection cover

A life policy sized to the debt, so that an outstanding balance is cleared rather than inherited. Held by you, nominated by you, and independent of whichever lender you happen to be with.

What we check first

  • Sum assured at least equal to the outstanding balance, tested again at every review
  • Term at least as long as the tenure still remaining on the loan
  • Reducing cover against level cover, decided on what else the family would have to carry
  • Whether a policy financed into the sanction is genuinely cheaper than one bought separately
  • That the cover survives a balance transfer, so moving the loan never leaves you uninsured
  • Nomination and any assignment recorded correctly, so the proceeds reach the right hands
Three generations of a family together at home
No claim outcome and no sanction is guaranteed. Cover is subject to the insurer's underwriting and the policy wording; credit is subject to the lender's assessment.

Bring the sanction letter you already hold.

An offer in hand, a loan already running, or nothing yet. We will read the terms, work out what it costs across the full tenure, and tell you plainly whether it is worth taking, worth moving, or worth leaving alone.

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