Financial Terms P

Payment Default: Failure to make a credit repayment. If the loan is secured against a property, the lender is entitled to repossess it to recover the debt.

Payment Schedule: A schedule of monthly loan repayments.

Pension Mortgage: A pension mortgage is an interest-only mortgage where the capital is repaid from the tax-free cash sum received from a pension fund at maturity. This option is only credible for holders of very large pension funds.

Portable Mortgage: A mortgage that can be transferred from one property to another.

Prime Rate: The lowest interest rate possible made available to the lender’s most valued customers.

Principal: The amount of a loan still outstanding – the outstanding sum on which interest is calculated.