Unit 16 - Real Estate Financing: Practice Flashcards
The real estate financing market has these basic components
Government Influences
Primary Mortgage market
Secondary mortgage market
The federal reserve
Maintains sound credit conditions
Helps inflation and deflation
Creates a favorable economy
The fed requires
That each member bank keep a certain level of assets on hand
Define Primary Rate
The short term interest rate charged to a banks largest, most credit worthy customers
Define a Primary Mortgage Market
Made up of the lenders that originate mortgage loans
Income on a loan is realized from
Finance charges
Recurring income
Servicing loans involves
Collecting payments
Accounting
Bookkeeping
Processing payments
Some of the major lenders in the primary market include
Thrifts Savings associations Commercial banks Insurance companies Credit unions
Define the Federal Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008
Requires that each individual state must license and register mortgage loan originators (MLO’s)
Define the Secondary Mortgage Market
Where various agencies purchase existing mortgage from banks and savings associations
Define Fanie Mae
A government sponsored enterprise that provides a secondary for morgage loans
Define Ginnie Mae
Administers special assistant programs and guarantees mortgage backed securities using FHA & VA collateral
Define Freddie Mac
A government sponsored enterprise that provides secondary market primarily for conventional loans
Define a Straight Loan
A nonamortized loan that essentially divides that loan into two amounts to be paid off separately
Define Amortized Loan
A loan in which the payment partially pays off both principle and interest
Define a Fully Amlrtized Loan
A loan in which the mortgagor pays a constant amount usually monthly
Define an Adjustable Rate Mortgage
A mortgage that generally originate at one rate of interest then fluctuate up or down during the loan term