You are buying a house and will borrow $200,000 on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage with monthly

Question:

You are buying a house and will borrow $200,000 on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage with monthly payments to finance the purchase. Your loan officer has offered you a mortgage with an APR of 4 percent. Alternatively, she tells you that you can "buy down" the interest rate to 3.75 percent if you pay points up front on the loan. A point on a loan is 1 percent (one percentage point) of the loan value. How many points, at most, would you be willing to pay to buy down the interest rate?

Fantastic news! We've Found the answer you've been seeking!

Step by Step Answer:

Related Book For  book-img-for-question

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-0077861704

11th edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Bradford Jordan

Question Posted: