The history of mortgages is that they have generally over time gotten more easy on loan-to-value ratio and also on maturity.

从抵押贷款的历史来看,随着时间推移,抵押贷款,对于贷款价值比和期限越来越宽松

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There are lots of costs, so you want to have a loan-to-value ratio, which is sufficiently low, that the collateral will cover the value of the loan.

那是一大笔开销,因此你要设定一个足够低的,贷款价值比率,使得抵押物价值能够为贷款提供保障

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