The Best Loan
Now, there is something very important with loans that is not the case with all financial products - the factor of personalisation.
Whilst with most things you can use comparison tables accurately, loans are one product where this will only give you a guide.
The reason is that banks will often set the rate you need to pay back a loan based on your financial status and history with that institution and elsewhere.
So you can often find that the rate you get offered in a branch is better (and sometimes worse) than the headline rate that is advertised in the press and in comparison tables.
All of this means that you might actually have to go into a few branches to find the best rate for you.
Also you will need to carefully study the terms of the loans on offer and make sure you pick a term that is realistic for you to pay back the money in without being such a long term that the amount you repay is much, much larger.
The key thing you will want to know is how much money you end up paying back over the term of the loan as this is the bottom line figure that matters most to you.
Most banks when giving you a quote for a loan will give you a summary of what is being offered that shows you exactly how much money you will be paying back, and this is a good comparison figure to take around in your head when comparing the loans from different providers.
Some banks also have online loan calculators and these can be a good way of finding out just how much money you are going to have to pay back over the term of the loan.
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