Assessment 3 FNSFMB501
Assessment 3 FNSFMB501
Assessment 3 FNSFMB501
Assessment 3
Activity 1
You have been notified by your bank that your mortgage loan has been ‘approved in principle’. Should
you immediately commit to purchasing a property? Explain your answer.
Activity 1 Answer
As a buyer, you should not commit fully until the other conditions are met. you can add a
condition to finance, building reports, pest inspections etc
As a seller, you should ensure the buyer's loan is unconditional and add subject to finance
on your new purchase in case the buyers loan goes unconditional to prevent possible
implications.
Activity 2
Activity 2 Answer
The steps are as follows:
1) Choose a conveyancer (settlement agent)
2)Receive the contract
3)Send an authority to act form on your behalf
4)Follow up any special conditions
5)Examine the title search
6)Prepare unconditional documentation
7)Submit EAS
8)Rates and taxes
9)Send final statement
10) Stamping
11)Prepare for settlement
12)Attend settlement
13)Finalise settlement
Activity 3
Henry has saved up $42,500 to use as a deposit and he wants to know the maximum price of a property
he can purchase while avoiding Lender’s Mortgage Insurance (LMI). Henry’s financial service provider
requires borrowers with a Loan to Value ratio (LVR) of 80% or more to take out LMI.
Calculate how much Henry can spend on a property without having to pay LMI. Show your workings.
Activity 3 Answer
If Henry has $42,500 he needs to borrow below $212,500
42,500 * 100 / 20 = 212,500
Activity 4
Identify and explain some of the benefits of the new PEXA system of e-conveyancing.
Activity 4 Answer
The PEXA system is backed and in collaboration between many industry participants,
including financial institutions, Land Registries and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA);
The benifits of the program is that property industry can simplify and digitise the complex
process of property exchange.
Activity 5
How is buying property at an auction different from buying property through a real estate agent?
Activity 5 Answer
The differences are that when an auction you can't have certain conditions that you do
through a real estate agent such as; BUilding reports, pest inspections, condition to finance
and available and other conditions. Also, the deposit needs to be paid at the signing of the
contract if sold via auction.
Activity 6
Activity 6 Answer
a conveyancer would pay disbursements on behalf of a property purchaser such as:
-Purchase price,
-The deposit amount,
-Stamp duty,
-An estimate of rates,
-Conveyancing fees, and
-Government fees
Activity 7
Activity 7 Answer
Adjustments, when related to a property settlement, are an apportionment of the rates,
taxes and outgoings between the Vendor and Purchaser. Eg Final readings the transition of
the services and rates.