1. You purchase a $450,000 town home and you pay 20 percent down. You obtain a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with an annual interest rate of 6.5 percent. After five years you refinance the mortgage for 25 years at a 5.75 percent annual interest rate. After you refinance, what is the new monthly payment (to the nearest dollar)?
2. Given the following information regarding an income producing property, determine the NPV using levered cash flows in your analysis: required equity investment: $350,000; expected NOI for each of the next five years: $250,000; debt service for each of the next five years: $175,000; expected holding period: five years; required yield on levered cash flows: 15%; expected sale price at end of year 5: $2,500,000; expected cost of sale: $250,000; expected mortgage balance at time of sale: $1,750,000.