September 11, 2003

Mortgages

We started our discussion of mortgages with an introduction to Table D.

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The mortgage amortization table shows the whole 30 years.

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What happens when the interest rate in 1993 is 10%, but is only 6% in 2003? People refinance.

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The mortgage would be worth over $121,000 in the secondary market if people could not refinance.

Posted by bparke at September 11, 2003 02:00 PM