Cash out refinancing

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Cash out refinancing is in the case of real property, when a loan is placed by an owner on property already owned, and the loan amount is above and beyond the cost of transaction, payoff of existing liens, and related expenses.

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Strictly speaking all refinancing of debt is "cash-out," when funds retrieved are utilized for anything other than repaying an existing lien.

In the case of common usage of the term, the phrase refers to when equity is liquidated from a property above and beyond sum of the payoff of existing loans held in lien on the property, loan fees, costs associated with the loan, taxes, insurance, tax reserves, insurance reserves, and in the past any other non-lien debt held in the name of the owner being paid by loan proceeds.

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The opposite, "Rate-and-term" refinancing occurs when a better note rate, better loan terms, or both become available to an owner which restructures their debt portfolio as it relates to liens held against a subject property. Consolidating multiple loans into one loan without extracting cash is also a rate-and-term.

Loan-to-value limits, and other factors in loan approval determine how much cash can be taken out from the equity of any one property.