Question: You are a lender giving a borrower a $ 3 0 0 k mortgage. It is a fixed rate fully amortizing 3 0 year mortgage.

You are a lender giving a borrower a $300k mortgage. It is a fixed rate fully amortizing 30 year mortgage. You think the appropriate risk given the discount rate is 4%. Originating the mortgage costs you (the lender) $5,000 in costs (regulatory and employment related) upfront (at time 0). Given that, what is the lowest interest rate you would be willing to charge? (Hint: This is a little tricky and we didn't do exactly this in class. Easiest approach is take a guess at the interest rate and solve for the NPV. Don't forget the upfront cost + the fact that you need to give the borrower $300k upfront which is like a cost to the lender as well. Then keep guessing interest rates until the NPV is close to 0 without being negative. Alternatively you could use "goal seek" if you are familiar with that in excel. Both approaches should be pretty fast.)
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