Fundamental Banking
House prices increasing above increments in average income and salaries and inflation will ensure bank profits.
This is because interest rate payments will rise quicker than increases in salaries and national income levels. This is not economically
beneficial in a developed society. While the ratio of housing costs to salary earnings continue to grow, the banks continue to make
a profit. The ratio of average income to housing living costs must not be controlled by the policy of bank profits, it must be
done to the advantage of customer economics. House price increases have a negative effect upon the economy in the same way as oil
price increases affect the standard of living. Economic control must be shared between customers, authorities and an agreed legislated
level of contribution from the banks.
Control Focus Moving Forward
Bank lending criteria must be established under legislated
law to inhibit the banks control over the supply of money to the economy using the availability of mortgages and loans. Minimum lending
criteria to be established under legislated law to oblige and force banks to lend thus removing the banks powers to govern cash supply
and so lessen their economic control. This will therefore open the more natural market forces to guide housing and rental living costs.
Banks will be not allowed under legislation to deny or refuse credit and or manipulate mortgage options. This framework must include
standardised lending critera and loan acceptance and permission criteria.
Banking Legislation
New banking legislation will ensure
mortgage availability calculated upon rent paid at any given time and must be quoted per customer. A similar system can be adopted
that is applied in the motor insurance industry. Insurance companies are obliged under law to quote an offer of motor insurance to
prevent drivers using their vehicles anyway without any cover. These methods are used in some countries. Similar legislation to this
can be used to ensure customers are quoted mortgage availability, this will inhibit the banks control of cash supply. Each customer
will be able to request what size mortgage can be offered to them at any one time based upon their present mortgage acceptance criteria.
House
Price Market
House price annual increases will be restricted to a normal market balance, because of a limitation of possible buyers
and their decreased size of larger mortgages available, which will reflect the salaries and incomes available to make the payments.
Quantity surveying is a matured skill and can be applied using salary and income growth as a guide for house price values. Present
time limitations of an offer of a mortgage will be overridden by a consistent offer of a house loan.
Answer
Mortgage availability must
reflect salaries and incomes available. The subsequent increase in the numbers of people able to get a mortgage because there is a
consistent mortgage offer, all be it of a lesser amount, will encourage sellers to readjust the asking prices of houses to be affordable.
Market pressures will still exist, except new buyers will open up parts of the market presently stagnant, therefore excellarating
business. Greater deposits will not affect these principles and private cash purchases will not be controlled. New mortgages can be
offered above agreed house price increases when a greater deposit is available by house buyers. Banks will not be allowed under law
to refuse and restrict lending.
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