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Mortgage Interest Types
With a HECM, you have a choice of two applied interest rates (depending on their availability through your lender): an annually adjusting rate or a monthly adjusting rate. Some lenders may offer both types of applied interest rates, while others may offer only one or the other.
The applied interest rate, or initial rate, is the rate at which interest is charged to your loan balance. Once the interest rate adjustment period has been established at closing, it cannot be changed. Rates for the HECM are tied to the one-year U.S. Treasury Security Rate, which is published weekly in most major newspapers (Wall Street Journal, USA Today, etc.) and is available from the Federal Reserve Web site. Adjustable interest rates (also called “variable rates”) can be adjusted within a specified range and time, and vary according to changes in a specified price index. Adjustable rates on mortgages are usually tied to a published market rate of interest.
With a HECM loan, the annually adjusting rate cannot increase more than 5 percent over the life of the loan and cannot increase by more than 2 percent in any year. The monthly adjusting rate cannot increase by more than 10 percent over the life of the loan, but there is no limit to the amount the rate can change at each monthly adjustment as long as it does not exceed the 10 percent lifetime cap. Again, a change in the adjustable rate has no effect on the amount or number of loan advances you receive, but causes the loan balance to grow at a faster or slower rate. The lower the rate, the slower your loan balance grows, and vice versa.
Remember, the applied interest rate is different from the expected average interest rate. The applied interest rate is the rate that is charged to the borrower’s loan balance throughout the life of the loan. The expected average interest rate is a fixed rate used solely to determine the principal limit.
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