9. You want to sell your house and receive $168,000. After paying a 5% commission and $2,000 closing cost, what price must your house sell for?
9. You want to sell your house and receive $168,000. After paying a 5% commission and...
You are planning to purchase a new house or condominium to use as your primary residence. This assignment will analyze some of the financial aspects of doing so. The final purchase price is $420,000 and, if you need a mortgage from the bank, your down payment will have to be 20% of the purchase price. The mortgage is a 30-year fixed rate loan with an Annual Percentage Rate (APR) of 6.00%. You will incur a one-time closing cost of $6,500...
Use the following to answer questions 9-12. Five years later, you are offered your dream job in Costa Rica. You need to sell this house in order to purchase a new one where you are moving. Rents have increased since you purchased the home and you estimate that the home will rent for $1700 per month (net). You have found a high quality tenant willing to sign a five year lease under the following conditions. Rent will be $1,700...
1. You want to enter into an agreement to physically sell WTI crude oil at a set price of 60.00 per barrel today for delivery in 12 months. You want the agreement to be for 400,000 barrels of oil and you are worried about counter party risk. Would you be most likely to use a futures contract or a forward contract? Explain your answer. (5 points) You are bullish on WTI so you are long 100 WTI contracts and also...
5. After graduating from MSU, you and a couple of your friends started a house-flipping business, where you buy a house on the market, do some repairs-remodeling and resell the house within a year, hoping to make profit. Given that you are a small business, you can only work on one house project at a time. You are currently trying decide between two houses: one in East Lansing and another in Okemos, for your next buy-resell project. East Lansing houses...
Compute your after-transaction-costs rate of return on purchasing a house for $1,000,000 if you have to pay 0.5% transaction fees up front and pay a 6% broker’s commission (plus 2% in waiting costs) at the end of 1 year. Assume a $4,000/month effective dividend of enjoying living in the house. Assume that your opportunity cost of capital (not the bank quoted interest rate) is 7% per year. At what rate of capital appreciation would the NPV be zero if you...
You got a well-paying job in Finance and took out a mortgage for your house. It is paid monthly. The amount you borrowed is $790,000, at a monthly rate of 0.5% for the next 30 years (360 months). Use 0.5% as both the interest rate you are paying and the discount rate r. a. What types of loans are there, and what kind of loan is this most likely? b. Show an amortization schedule if this loan had constant monthly...
You have inherited an apple orchard and want to sell it in the next four years. An expert in apple orchard valuation has estimated the after-tax cash flow you would receive if you sold at the end of each of the next four years as follows: $700,000 if you sell in one year; $1,000,000 if you sell in two years; $1,200,000 if you sell in three years; and $1,300,000 if you sell in four years. Your opportunity cost of capital...
You want to buy a new house. Your options are a tradition house for $350,000 and a 3D printed concrete house for $100,000. These houses are built over a plot that increases 5% every year. You want to keep this house for 20 years and make a bit of money at the end. Which house would be the better option if both homes lose 2% of its value, but also increase due to an inflation of 3.22% every year?
You are planning to buy a new house. You currently have 535,000 and your bank told you that you would need a 15% down payment Jus an additional 4% in closing costs. If the house that you want to buy costs $250.000 and you can make a 7% annual return on your avestment, determine the following: When will you have enough money for the down payment and closing costs, assuming that the $35.000 is the only investment that you make?...
To trade in stocks, a brokerage commission of 1% of the stock price is charged. However, if you buy the stock and later sell it, or you short sell the stock and later buy, assume that you pay the brokerage commission only one time at the beginning. If the stock price is $75 and the continuously compounded interest rate is 5%, what is arbitrage-free price range of the nine-month forward price?A. $76.15 and $77.24B. $76.89 and $78.84C. $77.08 and $78.64D. ...