(Ch. 14) Vocab (Mortgages And Financing) Flashcards
A federal agency which provides special assistance for federally aided housing programs; active in the secondary money market for government subsided housing programs; “Ginnie Mae” (14-182)
Government National Mortgage Assn. (GNMA)
Loaning money to consumers in the hope and expectation they will default and the lender will be able to take the collateral.
Predatory Lending
A clause in a mortgage or installment contract stating that upon default of payment due, immediate and full payment of the balance of the obligation becomes due and payable. (14-170)
Acceleration Clause
Mortgage repaid before it becomes due
Prepayment
The interest rate changes periodically based on an index.
Adjustable Rate Mortgage
Payments begin at a lower level than with a standard, fixed rate mortgage of the same amount. Then, the payments level off, usually after five, seven or ten years at a fixed payment which will be higher than the standard fixed rate loan.
Graduated Payment Mortgage (GPM)
Financial market where loans are made directly from the lender to the buyer.
Primary Mortgage Market
Type of acceleration clause that makes all future payments due when property is sold.
Alienation Clause
The employer of an agent or broker. Also, sum of the money owed as a debt upon which interest is calculated.
Principal
The gradual paying off of a debt on an installment basis
Amortization
Insurance that mortgage lenders require from most homebuyers who take out a mortgage loan in an amount in excess of 80% of a homes appraised value.
Private Mortgage Insurance
To pledge property as security for a loan without giving possession of the property to the lender
Hypothecate
Buyer personally obligates himself to payment of the entire outstanding debt and becomes a consigner on the seller’s note.
Assignment of Mortgage
The primary financing obligation and makes the mortgagor personally liable for the debt.
Promissory Note
Rate of interest determined by the IRS to be appropriate when the interest rate set in a transaction is considered to have been set artificially low or when no interest rate has been stated.
Imputed Interest
Buyer personally obligated himself to payment of the entire outstanding debt
Assumption of Mortgage
Given by a purchaser to a seller in lieu of purchase money.
Purchase Money Mortgage
The major source of mortgage money for residential loans; savings and loan, federal and state banks and life insurance companies
Institutional Lender
Mortgage whose payout is longer than the term for which the loan was granted.
Balloon Mortgage (Partial Amortized)
Unlawful practice by which a lender or an insurance company refuses to approve the loan applications or grant insurance in certain geographical areas
Redlining
Any mortgage that is subordinate to another
Junior Mortgage
Creates a lien on two or more parcels of property that are pledged as security for a debt.
Blanket Mortgage
Allows the developer to sell an individual parcel or unit over time and deliver free and clear title to a purchaser without satisfying the entire blanket mortgage.
Release Clause
Financing agreement often providing for a relatively small down payment, with the balance of the purchase price generally payable in monthly installments of principal and interest to the seller (vendor)
Land Contract
Short term, financing of real estate and is available for any type of real property. Used to purchase residential property when a property owner has signed a contract for purchase of one property in anticipation of selling another currently held property.
Bridge Loan
Upon full payment mortgage is given to the mortgagor, stating that the obligation to the mortgagee has been fulfilled
Release of Mortgage
The ratio between the amount borrowed and the sale price or appraised value of the property, whichever is LOWER
Loan-to-Value Ratio
The homeowner continues to live in the property and borrows each month from a lender until a ceiling amount or loan to value ratio is reached. The loan balance increases each month by the amount borrowed plus interest on the entire debt.
Reverse Annuity Mortgage (RAM)
The grant of an interest in real or personal property with a provision for the release of that property upon repayment of the debt in full.
Mortgage
A mortgage which is not FHA insured or VA guarantee
Conventional Mortgage
An instrument used when a lien is paid off and satisfied on the records
Satisfaction Piece
Uses its own borrowed funds, using a credit line established at a warehouse bank to borrow the loan amount on a short term loan basis for settlement.
Mortgage Banker
Subordinate to a first mortgage and, in the event of foreclosure, the mortgage would not be paid until the first mortgage has been paid in full
Second Mortgage
Bringing the lender and borrower together for a fee and does not advance it’s own funds to close the loan but facilitates it through an institutional lender
Mortgage Broker
Provides that the rights of the mortgagee will come to an end, if and when the debt is repaid in full.
Defeasance Clause