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Texas Real Estate Finance Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions The _______ market refers to the selling and purchasing of closed real estate mortgage loans. - Answer️️ -secondary The secondary market is a national market in which mortgages secured by real estate in all parts of the Uni...

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Texas Real Estate Finance Exam Study
Guide with Complete Solutions

The _______ market refers to the selling and purchasing of closed real estate mortgage

loans. - Answer✔️✔️-secondary


The secondary market is a national market in which mortgages secured by real estate in

all parts of the United States are ______ ____ _______. - Answer✔️✔️-bought and sold

Secondary market agencies have two main activities: 1) ___ _____ and 2) ______

________ ________ _______. - Answer✔️✔️-buying loans, issuing mortgage backed

securities

__________ exchanges mortgage back securities for a block or pool of mortgages. -

Answer✔️✔️-FNMA (Fannie Mae) Federal National Mortgage Association

_____ is the nation's largest investor in residential mortgages. - Answer✔️✔️-FNMA

One of the primary responsibilities of _____ is to maintain an active secondary money

market for mortgages. - Answer✔️✔️-FNMA

One function of FNMA is selling seasoned mortgages and trust deeds to individual

investors and financial institutions. A ______ ______ is one that has been in existence

for some time and that shows a good record of repayment by the mortgagor (borrower) -

Answer✔️✔️-seasoned mortgage

To be a _____, a company must distribute at least 90 percent of its taxable income to

shareholders annually in the forms of dividends. - Answer✔️✔️-REIT



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A REIT must: be structured as a corporation, trust, or association; be managed by a

board of directors or trustees; have transferable shares or transferable certificates of

interest; otherwise be taxable as a domestic corporation; not be a financial institution or

an insurance company; be jointly owned by 100 persons or more; have 95 percent of its

income derived from dividends, interest, and property income; pay dividends of at least

90% of the REIT's taxable income; have no more than 50% of the held by five or fewer

individuals during the last half of each taxable year (5/50 rule); _______ ______ ____

___ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ ; ______ __ ____ ___ __ __ __ __ _ __ _ _ _;_____ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _

__ _ _ - Answer✔️✔️-have at least 75% or its total assets invested in real estate; derive

at least 75% of its gross income from rents or mortgage interest; have no more than

20% of it's assets invested in taxable RIETs subsidiaries

______ _____ are those loans that meet the loan purchase requirements of both Fannie

Mae and Freddie Mac. - Answer✔️✔️-Conforming loans

The two major purposes of the Federal Reserve System, called the FED for short, are;

______ ____ ___ ___ __ and ____ ___ __ ___ ____ - Answer✔️✔️-supply reserve funds

when needed and control bank and consumer credit.

The _______ _______ drives the mortgage loan interest rate. - Answer✔️✔️-Federal

Reserve

The ______ ______has two primary methods of controlling the flow of money in the

United States. They control the flow of money by their availability to change the reserve

requirements of the banks and/or changing the discount rate charged to banks. -

Answer✔️✔️-Federal Reserve



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________ ____ is the rate the Federal Reserve charges its member bank to borrow

money - Answer✔️✔️-Discount rate

_______ _____ must belong and any state banks that wish may join the Federal

Reserve System. - Answer✔️✔️-National banks

_______ _____ _____ _____(___) is a federal agency that insures deposits in

commercial banks up to $250,000 and , along with the Federal Reserve System,

regulates banks and banking procedures. - Answer✔️✔️-Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation (FDIC)

_____ _____ is the total of all the loans that a financial institution or other lender holds

at a given time. A list, distribution, or grouping of mortgage loans. - Answer✔️✔️-Loan

Portfolio

____ ____ is the sale of a property where the lender agrees to settle for less than the

amount owed on the property - Answer✔️✔️-Short sale

_______: In the Texas Constitution, a principle residence of a family or adult single

person is protected from forced sale for all debt except: property taxes; federal tax liens

of both spouses; a home equity lien.....etc... - Answer✔️✔️-Homestead

____ ____ and ______ _______ are not the same thing. - Answer✔️✔️-Community

property and joint tenancy

_____ ____ put a cap on interest rate. - Answer✔️✔️-Usuary laws

______ is the state law that prohibits the charging of an interest rate in excess of the

legal limit. - Answer✔️✔️-Usury

_____ _____ are created to protect the borrower. - Answer✔️✔️-Usuary laws

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