Always shop around for personal loans on price comparison sites such as moneysupermarket and gocompare, as there are so many different providers with different APR% rates. A secured loan or perhaps known as home owner loan would provide better rates against the available equity in your property. Personal loans can range form £500 to £10,000 yet secured loans can be much higher.
The idea of personal loans is to spread the cost of short term expenditure. Some lender can to stretch the period as far as seven years but between 6 months to 2 years is an average. Try and stick to the shortest repayment time if possible and provided you can afford the repayments. This will save you money overall as you will end up paying less interest over the term of the loan.