Sandra is purchasing a home with a first mortgage loan for $548,250, which is the conforming loan limit for the area where she lives at the time that she secures approval. Her interest rate is not a prime rate, and in order to determine if it triggers the threshold for higher-priced mortgage loans, her creditor must determine if the APR for the loan exceeds the average prime offer rate by:

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2.5 percentage points

1.5 percentage points

3.5 percentage points

6.5 percentage points

Answer:

Sandra's creditor must determine if the APR for the loan exceeds the average prime offer rate by:

1.5 percentage points

Explanation:

The first mortgage loan principal should not exceed the conforming loan limit for the area where Sandra lives at the time that she secures the loan approval. It behooves on Sandra’s creditor to determine if the annual percentage rate (APR) for the mortgage loan exceeds the average prime offer rate (or the sample rate that is a representative of the APRs charged by creditors for mortgage loans that have low-risk pricing characteristics) by 1.5 percentage points.