Submitted by Due Diligence

LEADER of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Maxine McClean, has lauded the model to be used in the construction of houses in the Oxnards, St. James area as part of Government’s Housing Every Last Person programme – BarbadosAdvocate
The Senator appears not to understand how a home builder finances the construction of homes, and how a home buyer finances/pays for his/her purchase of the home. At the end of the day, once that person gets their mortgage approved, that person does not have access to any funds under the mortgage commitment ”to start to make their payments”. The mortgage lender makes one advance – when the home is completed.
Assuming it has a good credit rating and title to the property, sign off on the agreement and accessing a mortgage (commitment by the home buyer) would allow the home builder/contractor to negotiate financing with its bank to for the cash flow needed to build the home; but the home buyer does not provide working capital into the project, he/she pays for his/her home when it is completed.
My understanding is that it normally works like this…
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The home builder (contractor) buys the land, using its cash as a deposit on the land.
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The home builder then enters a contract with the home buyer, who has secured a commitment for a mortgage to enable him/her to complete the purchase when the home is built. At signing the purchase contract, the home buyer makes a down payment – of say 25% of the purchase price.
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The home builder goes to the bank to arrange a loan, against the security of the property to enable him to fund the cost of building the home.
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When the home is completed, the home buyer goes back to the lender which has committed to the mortgage to draw down the advance of the mortgage – the final 75% of the purchase price – assuming he still qualifies for the mortgage. (if he has lost his job he probably will not qualify).
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The lender’s attorney registers its mortgage on the property of the home being purchased (so it mortgage is registered on title) and lender advances the amount of the mortgage (through its attorney); which is paid to ensure the home builder pays off any money owing on the land and/or the construction cost for that home, so the lender has clear title on the property to secure its mortgage.
In this case, it seems that some Government entity (NHC?) owns/has title to property on which the home will be built; and the small contractor/home builder does not have title to the land. In that model, it will be the entity which has title to the property that will have to make payments to the contractor until the home is completed and the home buyer can get access to the mortgage advance from the mortgage lender to complete the purchase.
If the Leader of Government Business in the Senate, does not understand how a simple mortgage loan to finance a new home is advanced; is it any wonder why the Government does not understand how a country is financed?
Maybe the Senator should limit her interaction with the media to those frequent photo-ops with her chatting with the Ambassador from China and other members of the diplomatic corps in Barbados.





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