Someone should start a company that will let you transfer your mortgage to a new property for a flat fee. People would be lining up down the block to hand over their money.
If mortgage rates fall, people will refinance or take new loans when they move. If mortgage rates rise, these loans will be held to term and every new property that this is moved to, the lender will be originating a mortgage at 3% when the market is at 6%, 9%, or whatever.
A house with a mortgage is encumbered by a lien, which must be removed before the title can be transferred. To remove the lien you must pay off the mortgage. To pay off the mortgage, someone else has to lend you money, and nobody is willing to lend money at 3% when the Fed funds rate is 4.5%.
The fee would be so large it wouldn’t be worth it, because it would cost the same as traditional refinancing at prevailing rates, there’s no way around refinancing in this scenario.
This will be solved via combination of homeowner credit tightening and unemployment. Oh, and they are flooding the cities with unwashed immigrants and fentanyl which will make many nice areas undesirable, so the population will leave.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 28.4 ms ] threadThe fee would be so large it wouldn’t be worth it, because it would cost the same as traditional refinancing at prevailing rates, there’s no way around refinancing in this scenario.
Another friend years ago did a 1031 Exchange.
In Aus & NZ, even “fixed” rates are only for a few years (3-5 I think).