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What is an Unsecured Personal Loan?

An Unsecured personal loan is a personal loan where the lender has no claim on a homeowner's property should they fail to repay. Instead, the lender is relying solely on the ability of a borrower to meet their loan borrowing repayments. The amount you are able to borrow can start from as little as 500 and go up to 25,000. Because you not securing the money you are borrowing, lenders tend to limit the value of unsecured personal loans to 25,000. 

The repayment period will range from anywhere between six months and ten years. Unsecured personal loans are offered by traditional financial institutions like building societies and banks but also recently by the larger supermarkets chains. An Unsecured personal loan can be used for almost anything - a luxury holiday, a new car, home improvements or a wedding! An Unsecured personal loan is good for people who are not homeowners and cannot obtain a secured loan. For example, a tenant living in rented accommodation. 

There are a few things to consider before applying for an Unsecured personal loan: 
Unsecured personal loans are invariably more expensive than secured loans, and the repayment periods demanded by lenders are shorter too. This is because they have no guarantee that you can repay the loan, and therefore charge you more in interest to cover the cost of insurance policies that they need to take out to protect them should you default on repayments. In the event that a borrower does not pay up, the lender will invoke the terms of the legally-binding credit agreement and pursue the borrower through the legal system. 

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