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What is refinancing risk?

The risk that loan maturity arrives when rates are higher, lender standards tighter, income weaker, or values lower, forcing worse terms, new equity, a sale, or an extension. Most acute when low-rate loans mature into a higher-rate market.

Where you will use it: this term comes up in the Real Estate Finance course, and the full course glossary collects every term in one place.

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From the free Real Estate Finance course by Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA.