A real estate investor based in Corona Del Mar, California borrowed $43,200,000 from Union Bank secured by a 188,000 square foot suburban shopping center that she owned. The loan was a ten-year interest-only variable rate mortgage loan payable monthly with 30-day SOFR as the rate index. For the first two years, the loan had a teaser rate of 2%, after which the interest rate resets annually with 2% annual and 6% lifetime interest rate increase caps and a margin of 2.5%. On the first reset date, the 30-day SOFR was 3.5%. What was the monthly loan payment for the third loan year? a. Because of the interest rate caps, the monthly payment would not change b. $198,000 c. $144,000 d. $216,000

A real estate investor based in Corona Del Mar, California borrowed $43,200,000 from Union Bank secured by a 188,000 square foot suburban shopping center that she owned. The loan was a ten-year interest-only variable rate mortgage loan payable monthly with 30-day SOFR as the rate index. For the first two years, the loan had a teaser rate of 2%, after which the interest rate resets annually with 2% annual and 6% lifetime interest rate increase caps and a margin of 2.5%. On the first reset date, the 30-day SOFR was 3.5%. What was the monthly loan payment for the third loan year? a. Because of the interest rate caps, the monthly payment would not change b. $198,000 c. $144,000 d. $216,000