Bad credit does not preclude a secured loan

It is easy to end up with bad credit. You just keep heaping things on your credit card, for example, and before you know where you are the interest payments have expanded the size of your borrowings, you’re in massive debt and some months are having trouble paying even the minimums. Your record is noted by the cold-hearted banking system and you have a bad credit mark against you.But even people with good credit ratings can get into trouble. Last year, for example, almost one quarter of people who had good credit scores of between 840 and 900, with loans in the subprime mortgage market, were two months (or more!) behind in their payments. And even more tellingly, the rate at which this group defaulted on their loans was just as bad as those with credit scores of between 540 and 599. In other words, the credit score was not a good predictor of good or bad credit status.In these situations then, in the UK, secured loans and ad credit can go together. If you have a bad credit record, yet also have reasonable equity in a property, for example, your banker will look hard at your asset and not just your bad credit record.