09/12/2007
Fluctuations in the cost of money may, in some cases, make it advisable to “make running changes” to the terms of a mortgage: such changes, in economics, are known as renegotiation.
There are various legal methods for achieving this:
a) discharge of the old home loan and granting of new financing with a new mortgage (“replacement” home loan);
b) merely changing the terms of the old home loan (renegotiation in the strictest sense);
c) from 2 February 2007, subrog