Credits and mortgages – Practice 2

 

Fill in the gaps with the appropriate word or phrase in the correct form.
  1. The main cost of purchasing a property is not the legal fees but all the d  associated with the purchase, such as searches, land registration fee and stamp duty land tax.
  2. Although last year we inherited a large amount of money, we still decided not to pay back the whole mortgage before 2010 to avoid the early  penalty.
  3. The previous owners of the house had fallen behind in their mortgage payments and the bank  on it and is now looking for a new buyer.
  4. Getting paid is very important and we have an employee whose job is to chase our  i.e. people who owe us money.
  5. We offered the business  a 10% share in the profits and a seat on the board of directors.
  6. He was offered a  rate of 7.5 percent that soon became eight percent in one year.
  7. The major advantage of  mortgages is that they present predictable housing costs for the life of the loan.
  8. The Sotheby's loan was  on Van Gogh's „Irises“. When Bond's financial empire collapsed, Sotheby's was forced to sell the painting at a loss.
  9. I'll probably never see the money I lent to my brother, so I guess I'll write it. .
  10. A loan  who preyed on the sick and poor, charging interest rates of up to 8,000 per cent, has been jailed in the first case of its kind.