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What happens to a mortgage if the economy collapses?

What could happen to a mortgage if the economy collapses and the pound, dollar or Euro loose most of their value? How would you continue to pay or would you loose anything?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    It is your ability to pay the Mortgage payments that have a bearing not what a currency does,as long as you can meet your obligation you should be ok,what may change is the value of your property,as long as you meet the payments and ride out the storm you should do ok.housing is in shortage in the UK but for now purchasers are few,but in time that will change.We have been there before.

    Source(s): Retired mortgage underwriter.
  • Ryan M
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    The collapse of an economy has no legal bearing on your obligation to the bank. Actually, if the currency loses value, that actually makes your house CHEAPER since you are paying with inflated dollars.

  • 10 years ago

    Losing currency value wouldn't have immediate impact on mortgage

    As long as people are working, earning, they can pay

    The mortgage amount they pay would be fixed *unless they still have an adjustable rate mortgage)

    So even if inflation becomes big issue, they could pay their mortgage

    Collapse is a political, pejorative term. . . .what economic problem are you foreseeing?

    Source(s): real estate investor
  • 10 years ago

    You would still owe it. The home would lose value, but the mortgage wouldn't end.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Nothing happens to your mortgage at all. You still need to pay it each month.

  • 10 years ago

    economies do not collapse, but politicians get great news press.

    a debt is a debt on a mortgage

  • wizjp
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Define " collapse"?

    You owe a lender. You pay as long as you can. There will always be someone to collect.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    no person takes away your domicile if the private loan is paid. the domicile purely gets taken away in case you provide up paying the private loan. it incredibly is not the government that takes the domicile away, it incredibly is the private loan lender.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    If you still have your job, you keep paying.

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